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    Leadership At Low Ebb

    May 07, 2020 4 minutes
    By Ma Bo
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    The author is a research fellow at the Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University

    ‘When they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama, the former U. S. first lady, famously said while expressing her support to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid against current President Donald Trump. While the world is currently under the threat of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and nearly all nations have rallied to help contain the virus, we are witnessing a historical low of the U.S. leadership.

    Ill-advised moves

    Going low helps in passing the buck to other countries and blaming them

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