{"id":9329,"date":"2020-03-29T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T08:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:23:44","slug":"the-chinese-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9329","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julian Borger, Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When the UN security council and the\u00a0G7\u00a0group sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts stumbled on the US insistence on describing the threat as distinctively Chinese.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0China\u00a0pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world\u2019s most powerful nations.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And that absence was illustrated just as vividly by news coverage of planes full of medical supplies from China arriving in Italy, at a time when the US was quietly\u00a0flying in\u00a0<\/a>half a million Italian-made diagnostic swabs<\/a>\u00a0for use in its own under-equipped health system and Donald Trump was\u00a0on the phone<\/a>\u00a0to the South Korean president pressing him to send test kits.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me what is so striking is the complete absence of the US from public debates. The US is basically off the map, and China very much is on the map,\u201d Nathalie Tocci, the director of the Italian\u00a0Institute for Inter­national Affairs<\/a>\u00a0and a former EU policy adviser, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever happens in the US elections, what is happening now is going to linger on, simply because what we\u2019re going through now is such a traumatic experience \u2026 It is going to remain very much in our individual and collective memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cUS global leadership won\u2019t just end because they bungled their response to the corona­virus, but I think we will come to find that this was a pivotal point,\u201d said Elisabeth Braw, the director of the Modern Deterrence Project at the Royal United Service Institute in London.<\/p>\n

Braw argued that the coronavirus crisis will inflict more lasting damage on the US\u2019s standing than the 2003 Iraq invasion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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