Get it together, America

Of all the news stories surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, this one was particularly jarring.

China is emerging as a global public goods provider as the US proves unable and unwilling to lead.

This is an important development, and if the trend continues, it’s one with potentially serious consequences for the US role in the world. https://t.co/6n5Hlm6FY8

— Rush Doshi (@RushDoshi) March 10, 2020

Sadly the coronavirus will result in short term and intermediate casualties in the U.S., particularly in terms of human lives as well as financial setbacks. But if China usurps America as the country which the rest of the world can fully rely upon it times of crises, then we're talking about having to grovel to a communist dictatorship in an effort to stem the tide of such future catastrophic events.

That's not a good thing.

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