In recent months, hardly a week goes by without the trade war being a dominant topic. Last week was one of the rare times it happened. Unfortunately, something more unpleasant took the limelight – an outbreak of a pneumonia-causing coronavirus in China worsening rapidly, with the jump in the death toll and a fast-rising number of cases reported. There are comments aplenty that it could escalate into a global pandemic, especially when the hundreds of millions of Chinese undergo the largest global annual migration across China as well as overseas during the