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Walden Bello is a professor of sociology at State University of New York at Binghamton and a senior research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University in Japan. His most recent books are Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019) and Counter-Revolution: The Global Rise of the Far-Right (2019).
The spread of Covid-19 across the world was facilitated by a globalised economy rigged in favour of big corporations – and the long-term consequences are likely to fall most severely on those it exploits: the countries of the Global South.