Containing coronavirus: Why US, China compete about that, too
Posted on AllSides March 30th, 2020
From The Center
Who has a better model for confronting the novel coronavirus, a democratic or authoritarian regime? And which nation is more trustworthy? Big power competition has not ended with a global pandemic.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on a mission when he took part in a virtual meeting of the Group of Seven foreign ministers last week: Get Western allies to join him in using “Wuhan virus” to describe the coronavirus behind the global pandemic.
Mr. Pompeo’s colleagues didn’t bite. If anything, there was public rejection of any effort to...
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