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Peter Frankopan - Professor of Global History, Oxford University

Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan, a professor of global history and author. Is Covid-19 accelerating the transition of global power from West to East?

There's plentiful evidence that Covid-19 has inflicted more serious damage on the United States than China. Does that play into a wider narrative about an accelerating transition of global power from West to East? Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan - a professor of global history and author of the bestselling book Silk Roads. Is the West continuing to overestimate its central importance to the past and the present?

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Mon 28 Dec 2020 18:30
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