Only by collaborating more openly as a region with a shared future can this area of the globe prosper, and it must, in turn, counter politics of unilateralism, hegemonism and geopolitical confrontation striving to divide, politicize, blame and cut the globe up into blocs.
The challenge to defeat the virus is ultimately a marathon, not a sprint; it’s the one which requires personal responsibility, sacrifice and endurance.
The United States has demonstrated itself to be one of the most dangerous locations to live through the pandemic, not least in a society which continues to be rampant with inequality, has uneven access to healthcare and inadequate public health information from authorities who prefer to cater to commercial interests and conspiracy theories.
While this is a time of crisis, China and its partners under the BRI umbrella, may now have the opportunity to create a shared future for mankind in the region and beyond.
If they can seriously improve their own infrastructure and do their utmost to help developing countries meet their needs, instead of playing the geopolitical zero-sum game, then different plans may well coexist or complement each other.
America is a land of contradictions. It’s a country whose government will hoard vaccines, then its people will refuse to take them.
Washington must overcome its prevailing Cold War mindset. Reviving Yellow Peril propaganda and past anti-Communist crusades is a policy dead end.
NATO is an institution based on not only a Cold War mentality, but an increasing orientation towards global military supremacy.
To date, the words of fair-minded philosophers have been drowned out by the hubbub of ideological, economic, and regional differences that has prevented an effective global response to Covid-19.
In the long run, if major European powers do not take decisive measures to rebuild the supervision of their own intelligence agencies and cut off external interference, the U.S. intelligence espionage network against European leaders and civilians will continue to operate.
The desired goal is to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace on the basis of the “two-state solution” that guarantees the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the basis of 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The two countries have some cooperation in counter-terrorism, arms control and maintaining global strategic balance, which would make restarting the Cold War difficult.
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