When China Sneezes

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"The common adage, "If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold" is now demonstrable in a multiplicity of ways -- but it is China that has sneezed and that cold has swiftly spread across the world, rising to pandemic levels. Yet now, even as the coronavirus health toll continues to mount, concerns over other disastrous ramifications of the pandemic are arising -- the impact on the economy, jobs, food security, finance, the oil sector, and the many entangled elements of governmental response to civil unrest and the deepening recession. In this anthology, national and international analysts examine the science, state responses, and the emerging political and economic crises. Accusations directed at Chinas's BSL-4 in Wuhan as a possible source of the present outbreak has called attention to the vast extent of such biowarfare research laboratories -- mostly in the US but also worldwide -- raising the spectre of future releases of such deadly bio-toxins, whether by accident or by open or covert acts of biowarfare."--Back cover