Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

So far India has reported relatively few coronavirus infections. That may represent a lack of

knowledge rather than success and containment. But the human costs of a serious outbreak

there could be far worse and there would be anywhere else.

And the traffic in Lagos is notorious. Motorcycle taxis run riot in the roads and up on the

pavements. The planners for Nigeria's largest city thought they'd be improving matters by

outlying the two and three wheeled menaces. They were wrong.

Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, relations between America and China were by no means

at their warmest. But the coronavirus pandemic has dragged the relationship to its darkest

point in decades. On Tuesday, China's foreign ministry announced it would expel reporters

from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. It was the biggest

expulsion of Western correspondence since the communist takeover in 1949. Chinese officials

defended the move, describing the unreasonable oppression of Chinese journalists in America.

Earlier this month, Trump administration had kicked out 60 Chinese nationals who were

working for the country's state media.

The individuals that we identified a few weeks back were not media that were acting here

freely. They were part of Chinese propaganda outlets. We identified these as foreign

missions under American law. These aren't apples to apples.

The SPAT comes amid already simmering tensions over the pandemic. President Donald Trump

has taken to referring to the Chinese virus. While officials in China have been pushing

a conspiracy theory, the American army brought the coronavirus to its shores.

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