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30 March: China Daily: Oxford professor praises role played by China
By ANDREW MOODY
Ian Goldin believes pandemics pose a risk to the world that is 1,000 times greater than wars.
The Professor of Globalization and Development at Oxford University also said they serve to demonstrate how interdependent the world has become.
“We can only combat these and other global threats, like climate change and antibiotic resistance, by coming together,” he said...

A former economic adviser to late South African president Nelson Mandela, Goldin predicted in his 2014 book The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It that the next economic crisis would come from a pandemic.
“This disaster has been waiting to happen for a long time. It was merely a question of where and when it would start. China was one possible source, but it could have equally started in many, many other hundreds of thousands of cities around the world,” he said.

***Goldin predicted the likely cause of a pandemic would be animal-to-human transmission...

“It needn’t have been worse, but it is. China has acted quickly, but the problem is the rest of the world. The United States has been extremely erratic. The statements coming from the White House have been alarmingly unfocused, and blaming foreigners is hardly helpful...
Goldin, a regular visitor to China, said the world’s second-largest economy has demonstrated leadership and a willingness to help other countries.
“No country has done anything at the speed and on the scale that China has done. It has also mobilized medical supplies and personnel to Italy. We need to find a vaccine, and that means a global effort,” he said...

He said it could be dangerous for the world to push back from globalization just as global problems, including the current pandemic, need global solutions.
“There is no wall high enough that is going to keep out climate change, antibiotic resistance, or the next financial crisis or next pandemic. The idea that you can insulate yourself and have a wealthy, prosperous society as an island in a world which is systemically in crisis, is a complete fantasy,” he said...
http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/30/WS5e816725a310128217282fbf.html

final part of a 3-part series, just broadcast. Goldin is the ultimate globalist:

AUDIO: 26m29s: 22 Jul: BBC: The Compass: The Pandemic that Changed the World
What will the world look like post-Covid? In an age of increasingly inward focus can a spirit of multilateralism prevail to meet the challenges posed by the reconstruction of national economies as well as the needs of poorer countries and the international organisations?

And does the post-Coronavirus moment provide an opportunity to think differently about other global challenges, the foremost being climate change? Will we be able to “build back better”?

Ian Goldin, Oxford University’s professor of globalisation and development draws on his experience as economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and vice president at the World Bank to argue that the gravest threat to humanity in a generation could be turned into an opportunity. But the challenges are many. He discusses them with - among others - pandemic expert Larry Brilliant; Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz; the editor of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the chair of GAVI, the vaccine alliance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct0whw

Wikipedia: Ian Goldin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldin