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 at containment.

But the human costs of a serious outbreak there could be far worse than they 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 outlawing the two and three-wheeled menaces.

They were wrong.

First up, though.

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 correspondents since the communist takeover in 1949.

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

Earlier this month, the 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. 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'd identified these as foreign missions under American law. These aren't apples to apples. The spat comes amid already simmering tensions over the pandemic.

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