When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis

The common adage, "If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold" is now demonstrable in a multiplicity of ways-but it is China that has sneezed and that cold has swiftly spread across the world, rising to pandemic levels. Yet now, even as the coronavirus health toll continues to mount, concerns over other disastrous ramifications of the pandemic are arising-the impact on the economy, jobs, food security, finance, the oil sector, and the many entangled elements of governmental response to civ...