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How will coronavirus change the world?
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Coronavirus will impact global politics

This position holds that coronavirus will reshape global politics. It maps the possibilities — that the pandemic could dent individualism, test the case for globalisation, normalise greater state involvement in economies, swing the 2020 US election, and fuel isolationism and nationalism.

Supporting arguments · 7

  1. Trump will lose the 2020 election because of coronavirus
    The response to coronavirus has demonstrated the incompetence of the Trump administration.
  2. Coronavirus will increase isolationism and nationalism
    The spread of coronavirus demonstrates the failings of globalisation - travel spread the virus, and our supply chains broke down as a result of lockdown. It will lead to a resurgence of isolationism and nationalism.
  3. Trump will win the election because of coronavirus
    Coronavirus will boost Trump's popularity, resulting in a 2020 Presidential win.
  4. Coronavirus will damage public perception of individualism
    Cultures that put the collective interest over personal freedom will respond better to Coronavirus. This will promote a political culture that sacrifices personal freedoms for the greater good.
  5. Coronavirus will prove the benefits of globalisation
    Our coordinated political response to the crisis, as well as our borderless scientific cooperation, and the recognition that COVID-19 touched the whole world, will prove the benefits and sense of globalisation.
  6. Coronavirus will start a revolution in China
    China's authoritarian regime is facing intense public pressure over their handling of the coronavirus crisis. China lied about the danger and spread of the disease, and silence Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to warn the world (and died of COVID-19). The weakness of state authoritarianism has been laid bare.
  7. Coronavirus will normalize state involvement in all economies
    As the global economy takes a nosedive, government will play an ever more important role in our economies. Deep state involvement in the 'free market' will become the new norm even in liberal economies.