It's Monday the 20th of April 2020.

I'm Josie Delap, the economist's international editor.

Welcome to Editors' Picks, where you can hear three of our favourite stories from the paper

this week, read aloud.

Our cover story asks whether China will be the pandemic's big geopolitical winner.

After a disastrous attempt to cover up the virus,

its lockdown seems to have worked.

The number of newly reported cases has slowed to a trickle and factories are reopening.

Meanwhile, the official death tolls of Britain, France, Spain, Italy and America

have exceeded that of China.

Some in the West are warning that the pandemic will mark a geopolitical turning point

away from America. Are they right?

Next, Saudi Arabia is looking for an exit to the war in Yemen,

but after years of fighting, the Houthi rebels have the upper hand.

And we take a look at how Britain's glossy magazines are covering a decidedly gloomy world.

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First, the geopolitical consequences of COVID-19 will be subtle but unfortunate.

Is China winning?

This year started horribly for China.

When a respiratory virus spread in Wuhan, communist party officials instinct was to hush it up.

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