The Wake Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It By: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge [Audiobook]

Author: John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
Narrated by: Kristin Scott Thomas

Good government is now the difference between living and dying….

The COVID crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US and the UK has been consumed with inward-facing struggles, countries like South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan as well as China have made extraordinary advances economically, technologically and politically.

In this beautifully crafted essay, Micklethwait and Wooldridge explain how we ended up in this mess and explore the possible routes out. If Western governments respond creatively to the crisis, they will have a chance of reversing decades of decline; if they dither and delay while Asia continues to improve, the prospect of a new Eastern-dominated world order will increase. The big question facing the world is whether the West can rise to the challenge as it has before.

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