Commentary on Political Economy

Saturday 15 February 2020

SLAUGHTER XI THE PIG!

History suggests that a significant proportion of the undemocratic strongmen will be gone within the decade — and it will not be the coronavirus that carries them off. Unless, that is, the Wuhan epidemic proves to be Xi’s Chernobyl, which it may yet. After Maduro, who soon won’t have a population left to plunder, and the Saudi crown prince, whose plans to reform Saudi Arabia are doomed to fail, Xi seems to me the most vulnerable figure.
Come to think of it, didn’t The Economist once call him “the most powerful man in the world”?
Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford

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