Anthony Dapiran, FP
The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.
Katrin Bennhold, New York Times
The coronavirus pandemic is shaking bedrock assumptions about U.S. exceptionalism. This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking for Washington to lead.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The virus may burn out, but an even scarier world continues.
W. Münchau, Spectator
The way we buy and sell things will change
Don Weiland, FT
Beijing is keen to portray a city returning to normal, but many still question what really happened.
Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
If the World Health Organization is to spearhead international health policy and respond to disease outbreaks effectively, it must pursue deep reforms aimed at broadening its jurisdiction and authority. That won’t happen unless and until the WHO rebuilds its credibility, beginning with new leadership.
Francis Fukuyama with Gideon Rachman
Gideon Rachman talks to writer Francis Fukuyama about the way different political systems have responded to the pandemic and about the crisis of trust that has undermined some countries’ efforts to tackle the disease.
Pepijn Bergsen with Atlantic Anchors
Ksenia Svetlova, Al Monitor
N. Gvosdev, Russia Matters
Vladimir Putin, during his two-decade tenure as either Russia’s president or prime minister, has now experienced several iterations of a peculiar cycle in U.S.-Russian relations: a pattern of deterioration edging toward greater hostility suddenly interrupted by a major crisis that offers the opportunity to reset ties between Washington and Moscow. No such opening occurred during the last year of the Clinton administration, but subsequent instances—during the tenures of George W. Читать дальше...
Gerard Baker, Times of London
In a move that will help define the election, Democrats are trying to outdo Republicans in blaming Beijing for Covid-19
R Olney, WOTR
this.”
“This” being a COVID-19 induced recession. The second week of March was an inflection point for many across the world. As a founder of a tech company with commercial and defense customers, I have concerns for the early-stage companies with defense applications. With the massive economic downturn came panicked investors trying to determine which companies in their portfolios would survive. They reached out to learn how much cash we have, if we can do layoffs, and if we would ultimately survive. Читать дальше...
Kenneth Quinn, The Hill
It should be a morale builder at Foggy Bottom since it was reported that, once again, at a critical moment in our modern history, it was two foreign service officers who provided the most important early warning about a potential ominous national security disaster. Thanks to Josh Rogin of the Washington Post, we now know that two years ago, messages...
James Palmer, Foreign Policy
Parts of Harbin, a city in the far north, go under lockdown after it reports 52 imported cases.
Victoria Clement, Kennan Institute
The countries of Central Asia, a region with long historical ties to Russia, have taken different paths in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A proactive stance and regional leadership in the face of the calamity, espoused by some of the region's nations, stands in sharp contrast to the strategy of denial embraced by others. This divergence strongly hints at the nations’ future trajectories vis-à-vis Russia and the world.
Michael Auslin, Fox News
Since the Carter administration officially recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on Jan. 1, 1979, the Republic of China on Taiwan has existed in international limbo. It lost its seat in the United Nations and swiftly saw its major diplomatic partners cut ties. Taipei has almost no official standing among the community of nations, a byproduct of the world’s half-century desire to trade with the PRC.
Ana Quintana & James Jay Carafano, RCWorld
The coronavirus arrived in Mexico one month after it invaded the United States. Now, it is hitting our southern neighbor hard. Mexico started the week with 8,772 confirmed cases, but Mexican health officials believe the real number is eight times higher.
Benjamin Russell, Americas Quarterly
Mismatched coronavirus policies foreshadow broader shifts in Mexican politics.
Economist
Alberto Fernández has dealt well with the pandemic. Debt may be harder
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios
In the U.S., two similar-sounding theories link the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the coronavirus. One is very unlikely; the other is plausible but unverified.
Emily Tamkin, New Statesman
James Stavridis, Bloomberg View
America’s armed forces can do more to protect against future outbreaks. Here’s how.
C. Saint-Etienne, Les Echos
The health crisis is real. But so too are the economic costs of an extended lockdown, which will soon become unmanageable on all sides.
Duvvuri Subbarao, Financial Times
Unfortunately, no emerging economy can take the generosity of markets for granted.
Clifford May, Washington Times
It now seems unlikely that the virus destroying lives and livelihoods around the world began in a wildlife-for-supper market in Wuhan. More plausible: That it began in a laboratory in that same Chinese city.
