List of Pandemics articles
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Law enforcement officers wearing face masks in Kazakhstan Central Asian States Can’t Hide the Coronavirus Any Longer
Authoritarian states have been downplaying numbers. That won’t last.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping Virus Competition Is Wrecking China-U.S. Cooperation Hopes
Coronavirus efforts are a new battlefront—and Beijing is the only one in the game.
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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a briefing about the coronavirus outbreak at the White House on March 17. How Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Reshape the U.S. Election?
A major outbreak and looming recession in the United States has transformed the 2020 campaign—and could have major consequences for the future of great power politics.
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A Chinese man wears a protective mask China Is Fighting the Coronavirus Propaganda War to Win
Beijing isn’t interested in a tit-for-tat media feud with the United States—it’s going for escalation dominance.
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People's Liberation Army soldiers China’s Military Claims to Be Virus-Free
Officially, not a single PLA soldier has been infected.
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Visitors to Luang Prabang town, Laos, a world heritage site, are drastically lower than usual Claims of a Coronavirus-Free Laos Are Probably Fiction
China’s poor rural neighbor says it has no cases. That’s unlikely to be true.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Japan. China Casts Itself as Global Savior While U.S. and EU Focus on Virus at Home
As Western countries battle with their own domestic epidemic, a newly stabilized China seizes a chance to portray itself as the emerging superpower. Will it work?
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A man delivers an Amazon parcel in Paris Amazon Workers Struggle to Stay Safe as Company Swells
The delivery giant is likely to come out of the coronavirus crisis even more powerful.
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An Iranian woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2018. Iran Knows Who to Blame for the Virus: America and Israel
The regime’s ideological army is spinning conspiracy theories even as it helps spread the virus among Iran’s long-suffering people.
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worldleadersvirusmap040220 Coronavirus in the Corridors of Power
Which Politicians and Senior Officials Have the Coronavirus?
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Two men wear protective masks as they sit in a nearly empty Starbucks in Sanlitun, Beijing, on March 10. The Coronavirus Shutdown Slashed China’s Household Finances
Xi Jinping is desperate to get the economy back to life.
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A doctor speaks with homeless people about the coronavirus HIV-Positive Population Braces for Another Plague
Mysterious deaths and experimental drugs are all too familiar to survivors of the 1980s epidemic.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press conference. U.S. Citizens Abroad Frustrated by Lack of Help From Embassies Amid Pandemic
Democratic lawmakers express “urgent concern” to Pompeo about failure to assist with flights and information.
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Medical staff wearing protective suits Fortress Russia Begins to Show Cracks as Coronavirus Spreads
Russian officials once touted their success in holding off the virus. Now cases are rising as their statistics are being questioned.
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An abandoned home Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown Is Coming
Politicians won’t admit it yet, but it’s time to prepare—physically and psychologically—for a sudden stop to all life outside your home.
