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Jonathan Ledgard

Jonathan Ledgard

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Jonathan Ledgard is a former East Africa correspondent for The Economist and Director of Future Africa at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

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  1. varoufakis70_PEDRO PARDOAFP via Getty Images_poverty Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

    The Redistribution Games

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Life is not the Olympics, where talent and training determine an athlete’s performance. It’s more like a Roman arena in which well-armed gladiators vanquish unarmed victims who lose not because they did not try hard enough, but because of the asymmetrical initial distribution of armor.

     shows how concentrated wealth undermines economic recovery, liberal democracy, and planetary health.
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  4. patten119_NICOLAS ASFOURI AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURIAFP via Getty Images_xi jinping Nicholas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

    China’s Leaders Can’t Be Trusted

    Chris Patten

    Four examples of the Chinese leadership’s duplicity and mendacity demonstrate that the last thing the world should do is trust the Communist Party of China. If governments recognize this and act together, the sooner the Beijing bullies will have to behave better.

     offers four examples demonstrating why the world should repudiate President Xi Jinping’s regime.
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