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Peter Frankopan - Professor of Global History, Oxford University

Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan. Is the west continuing to overestimate its central importance to the past and the present?

There’s plentiful evidence that Covid-19 has inflicted more serious damage on the United States than China. Does that play into a wider narrative about an accelerating transition of global power from West to East? Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan - a professor of global history and author of the bestselling book Silk Roads. Is the west continuing to overestimate its central importance to the past and the present?

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Mon 28 Dec 2020 04:30GMT

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