THE LONG VIEW … FORMER AUSTRALIAN PM KEVIN RUDD in FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
“[D]espite the best efforts of ideological warriors in Beijing and
Washington, the uncomfortable truth is that China and the United States
are both likely to emerge from this crisis significantly diminished.
Neither a new Pax Sinica nor a renewed Pax Americana will rise from the
ruins. Rather, both powers will be weakened, at home and abroad.
“And the result will be a continued slow but steady drift toward
international anarchy across everything from international security to
trade to pandemic management. With nobody directing traffic, various
forms of rampant nationalism are taking the place of order and
cooperation. The chaotic nature of national and global responses to the
pandemic thus stands as a warning of what could come on an even broader
scale.”
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