MELBOURNE: The COVID-19 pandemic is a great leveller – a fearsome test of governments and governing philosophies the world over.
Democracies and autocracies alike have been exposed and found ill-prepared, under-equipped, and too slow to respond. The United States, for all its power, wealth, and technological might, has proved to be as vulnerable as any other country.
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