Why the U.S. Should Abandon Hostility Toward China
merica’s greatest existential threat today is not China; it is making China into America’s existential threat. The war of words launched by the U.S. over the coronavirus is a sad commentary on the lack of necessary cooperation, not to mention a lack of compassion initially for the severity of the epidemic in China in the early months. The escalating hostility toward China now so evident in Washington will all but ensure a competitive rather than any collaborative search for vital solutions. The result will be wasted resources, duplicative research, insufficient financing, and the undermining of international dissemination of advanced green technologies. And this is only to note the consequences for coping with just one of
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