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    Preparing For Unknowns

    May 14, 2020 5 minutes
    By Zhang Yansheng
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    The author is a senior researcher with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges

    The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is a major public health crisis unseen in about 100 years. There is also a possibility that the disease may continue to exist for a long time to come. One of the most effective approaches to tackling the spread of the virus is to adopt widespread lockdowns, but this measure tends to interrupt consumption, investment, trade, logistics, the business flow, as well as industrial and supply chains. The post-pandemic world will therefore not be the same as it was before.

    Reshaping world order

    The world has been undergoing profound changes with increasing uncertainties. The Eastward shift of the world’s

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