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COVID19 spreads across the globe. Who to blame? Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai: “Blaming China will not end this pandemic”. Lancet editor-in-chief: “The U.S. has wasted the whole of February and early March. It is disappointing to see American politicians giving credence to conspiracy theories and promoting unproven treatments.” 更多

To decouple, or not to decouple, that is the question. David Firestein, president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations: “US-China decoupling unfeasible”. More opinion pieces on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on today’s CUSEF Opinion Tracker. 更多

Recent news reported that the U.S. government plans to retaliate against China over claims the Chinese withheld critical information about Covid-19 by cancelling U.S. debt held by China. POLITICO’s Ben White and Aubree Eliza Weaver argue that ‘any move to “cancel” debt held by China would destroy the full faith and credit of the U.S., send U.S. interest rates soaring and could ignite a global financial catastrophe.’ A penny for your thoughts? 更多

The world is now talking about ‘decoupling’. While the U.S. is playing the ‘blame game’ against China, Sachs stressed that it is more than important to defend and protect multilateralism. “As a historian I think of the 1920s and 1930s as a time when nationalism became dominant and it led to global disaster. So, we really need to take the steps, no matter what the Trump administration ends up doing, for the rest of the world to protect multilateralism.” 更多

Earlier US President Donald Trump questioned China’s reported COVID19 mortality rate, saying “Does anybody really believe this number?” Dr Deborah Birx, coordinator of the US response to the outbreak, also criticized China’s reports data. Asia Times’ John Walsh argues: “China’s Covid reporting far from ‘unrealistic,’ close analysis shows China mortality rate in line with East Asian neighbors”. 更多