America’s Global Abdication
China seeks to assume a flawed leadership despite its role in coronavirus’s escape
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I recently attended a webinar on Southeast Asian responses to the Covid-19 put on by the Singapore-based risk firm Vriens and Partners that ended when the moderator asked representatives of nine countries what offers of help they had received from US officials. Not a single participant could name any response from the US.
In the meantime, China has gone …
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