Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the United States
May 07, 2020
The "always blame China" mentality hurts global response to COVID-19.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
May 05, 2020
U.S.-China relations have deteriorated gradually under Trump’s hawkish China administration and with the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 presidential election may worsen relations further if candidates continue seeing China attacks as an easy electoral strategy.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, and China Forum Expert
May 05, 2020
The short answer is probably not. The coronavirus pandemic has led to a state of mutual suspicion and open rivalry that is going to complicate the future. Beijing and Washington should speak more discreetly to one another to prevent an outbreak of hostility.
Huang Jing, University Professor at Shanghai International Studies University
May 05, 2020
Sharing details of China’s success against the pandemic is an effective response to the reckless and morally bankrupt claim that the country is responsible for the global spread of the coronavirus.
Mel Gurtov, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Portland State University
May 04, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be another obstacle in the Trump-era US-China relationship, and throws into uncertainty, once again, whether the future will make the two competitors friend or foe.
May 04, 2020
The Trump administration's rhetoric is becoming increasingly antagonistic towards China.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
May 04, 2020
A CDC publication’s cover featuring bats in a piece of Chinese art is yet another attempt by the Trump Administration to distract the public from the inefficiency of its handling of the coronavirus and instead blame China.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
May 03, 2020
It didn’t have to end this way, but the die is now cast. After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of the US-China relationship is at hand. This is a tragic outcome for both sides – and for the world. From an unnecessary trade war to an increasingly desperate coronavirus war, two angry countries are trapped in a blame game with no easy way out.
Apr 30, 2020
China is neither the former Soviet Union, nor intent on becoming the next America.
Robert Malley, White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region under Obama Adnimistration
Apr 29, 2020
Running parallel to the global battle against the coronavirus pandemic is a tug of war between two competing narratives about how the world ought to be governed