Influential Jesuit journal takes critical look at China and CO19
May 13, 2020
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Benoit Vermander, a French Jesuit who teaches in Shanghai, examines China’s response to the virus. Instead of unalloyed praise, he offers a mixed review, referring to population control and “the pressures of the state.” He warns, “There is a danger that the coronavirus crisis will be an opportunity for China to further expand what Singapore analyst Eric Teo called ‘a new tribute system’” in its relations with other nations.
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