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Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most

important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Cindy Yu. As the coronavirus swoops across the globe, it's causing businesses, governments and

consumers to rethink their globalised lives. I speak to Kate Andrews and Gideon Rachman

about whether or not the coronavirus is the death now for globalisation. And in the midst

of talk of a global pandemic, it's easy to forget that we have a budget coming up next week.

So how will the coronavirus impact what that budget looks like? And at the very end, we ask, is it much harder to be eco-friendly

if you're a woman? First up, the world has been enjoying the benefits of globalisation, with

millions pulled out of poverty because of it, including my family and myself as Chinese immigrants.

But what the coronavirus exposes is the incredible interdependency we have on each other.

The disease has travelled across the world in a matter of weeks,

and businesses are struggling, especially those with international just-in-time supply chains.

So has globalisation had its day?

Kate Andrews asks the question in this week's cover piece,

and she joins me now, together with FT columnist Gideon Rachman.

So Kate, can you tell us about your argument?

So long before the coronavirus moved into other parts of the world,

when it was specifically in certain provinces in

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