'We must learn from the failed global response to COVID-19'
in 2020, and while around two-thirds of that loss was recovered in 2021, the recovery remains uneven. The same difficult picture is emerging for many economies around the world.
Third, COVID-19 has accelerated the pre-existing strategic dynamics between China and the U.S., fostering a relationship even more problematic than before. COVID-19 provided a strategic opportunity for bilateral cooperation and global leadership. Both governments failed. Instead, Beijing went into political hyper-drive to try and prevent being blamed for the original outbreak in Wuhan so as to protect the party’s political legitimacy at home and abroad.
One last dimension to the current crisis which confronts us all is the question of what sort of world has now emerged from the public health, economic, and foreign policy ruins of COVID-19. China has sought to deal with COVID-19 by imposing a zero tolerance policy. It is now theof the 193-member UN to have a strategy of total virus elimination and suppression.
Isolation will also serve to underscore the radical differences between the two countries’ competing political ideologies and systems. The Communist Party proclaims virus suppression as evidence of the superiority of its system in 2021 . At the same time, the freedom-loving West has, by and large, been shambolic in its floundering efforts at suppressing one variant after another.
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