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Fareed Zakaria: "We are living through the first global crisis"

2021-03-05T13:22:57.636Z


INTERVIEW - The American essayist and columnist assesses the impact of the coronavirus on economies, individuals and societies, around the world.


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Born in 1964 in Bombay, Yale graduate, Fareed Zakaria writes for several newspapers such as

The Washington Post

and

The Atlantic

.

His weekly program on CNN, "GPS" ("global public square"), addresses major issues of international politics.

In

Back to the future.

10 lessons for tomorrow

, published by Éditions Saint-Simon in France, it analyzes the effects of the coronavirus on society.

This stimulating, and at times rather optimistic, essay reminds us that crises are the most powerful engine of change.

LE FIGARO.

- You describe the pandemic as an acceleration of many pre-existing trends.

Is this the main effect of the health crisis?

Fareed ZAKARIA.

-

Since the end of the Cold War, we have created an open, dynamic and unstable system.

Open, with the free movement of individuals, capital, services;

dynamic, with the rise of the internet and the exceptional economic growth of recent decades, which

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Source: lefigaro

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