Whenever we’re ready to re-open Covid-closed businesses, we’ll have to resolve some important questions about how to do so safely. One of them: what kind of measures should businesses take to keep employees and customers safe, and how should business owners be held accountable if they play fast and loose with others’ health? This debate over limiting liability has just ...

China has plenty to gain from lending a hand to its friends battling the coronavirus in Africa. Contrary to some perceptions, that won’t mean opportunistic grabs in oil, copper or arable land. The biggest prize for Beijing is political capital. Sub-Saharan Africa faces its first recession in 25 years, and the continent as a whole is also grappling with the ...

The coronavirus-fuelled collapse in air travel has made it highly unlikely that airlines will be adding new jets to their fleets anytime soon. But when the world’s carriers are ready to take deliveries of airplanes and place new orders again, the odds are increasing that those planes will be made by Airbus rather than Boeing. There are no coronavirus winners ...