Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Taiwan

Acted more aggressively early on and has much fewer cases of Coronavirus than her neighbors.

This episode suggests a number of things:

-Trump's instincts of a world with stronger borders is probably the right idea.
-Globalism increases the odds of certain types of catastrophes - ie disease spread, and yet also offers a number of solutions: ie good, fast flow of information about the disease
-Pretty clear the expansion of what might be called the Chinese political-economic system could have very very troubling global side effects.

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