When the UN security council and the G7 group
sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the
efforts stumbled on the US insistence on describing the threat as
distinctively Chinese.
There are other reasons for the lack of collaboration in the face of a global crisis, but the focus on labelling the virus Chinese and blaming China pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world’s most powerful nations.
For some US allies, the fixation on words at a time when the international order was arguably facing its greatest challenge since the second world war encapsulated the glaring absence of US leadership.
Read more at; US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
There are other reasons for the lack of collaboration in the face of a global crisis, but the focus on labelling the virus Chinese and blaming China pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world’s most powerful nations.
For some US allies, the fixation on words at a time when the international order was arguably facing its greatest challenge since the second world war encapsulated the glaring absence of US leadership.
Read more at; US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
