What will be the major changes we can expect? As the pandemic unfolds it will test not only the operational capacities of organizations like the WHO and the UN but also the basic assumptions about our values. The crisis also represents a test of the competing claims of liberal and authoritarian states to better manage extreme social distress. It seems that the pandemic has turned globally into a competition for Global Leadership, and it will be the countries that most effectively respond to the crisis that will be the winners of tomorrow.
Using only half the vision, energy, and invention they had after the war when they proved there is nothing they cannot do? They put aside the “old fogies” who say we cannot afford this and mustn’t do that and the new changes in tax legislation in the UK are slowly copying post-WW2 policy. “ No excuses anymore for unemployment, poverty, and underfeeding”. Will we see in the new world a new “Anglo Saxon Empire” who will lead the way morally?Īfter the Second World War Britain turned to the left. The new agreement reached between the Australians, the British, and the Americans is no surprise as they share common values and a common language. The discussion in global think tanks is not about cooperation, but whether the Chinese the Europeans, or the US will emerge as leaders of the post-coronavirus world. Relationships between the world’s biggest powers have never been so dysfunctional but it is clear to everyone that if we do not come together and join forces, we will not be the winners of tomorrow. Understanding taxation policies, currencies, understanding cross border issues are the future but this is not in the best interests of local Governments. Government all over the world are doing their best to encourage national issues and discourage globalization, but citizens of the world are already global, they cross borders to work, to Invest, to live a better life.
Globalization: when talking about winners and losers of the virus the first thing that comes into our minds is that the winners are technology and healthcare and that the losers are entertainment and travel, but the real winner is globalization. The day after, it will not be a return to the day before, but new realities have emerged, and we will never be the same. Whatever happens, the period had changed us and taught us a lot, many things that we thought to be impossible are happening.