Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?

Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?
Biden may tone down Trump’s trade war and bring back some limited human rights advocacy, but there may be more continuity than either administration admits.
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Facebook and Google’s dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. U.S. regulators should take note.
Pandemic-stricken Filipinos are now asking themselves how they could have fallen for a leader whose only skill is mass murder.
The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world — until they botched it.
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars.
Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition — and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth.
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