US-China relations: Disconnecting from global trade helps no one

This is the age of disconnection. Covid-19 has shown all the flaws of global connectivity. The virus travels with human beings and forces us to have periodic lockdowns to stop transmission, buying time to bring it under control. Commenting on the pandemic, Foreign Affairs magazine laments the US failure to prepare as well as to contain, saying, “What is killing us is not connection, it is connection without cooperation.” Globalisation was the great connector, created by a unipolar order which…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3097387/us-china-relations-disconnecting-global-trade-helps-no-one