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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Economics
Economics
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A food vendor serving food as people queue in line to collect food as Lagos state government begins distribution of meals to Youths in verious LCDAs, Local Community Development Areas as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Lagos, on Apri
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Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization, (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China.
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Flags of Europe flutter in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on June 1, 2018.
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Relatives of the deceased line up for a funeral in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city hit hard by the coronavirus, April 5.
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3M N95 particulate filtering face mask are seen at a store in East Palo Alto, California, United States on January 26, 2020
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Chinese soldiers wearing protective masks march at the People's Square on April 04, 2020 in Shanghai, China
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President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands at a press conference following their meeting outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (Artyom Ivanov\TASS via Getty Images)
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Empty shelves and shoppers are visible at a Target retail store during an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Contra Costa County, Dublin, California, March 15, 2020.
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
