While millions ofpeople around the world are suffering from COVID-19, U.S. President Donald Trump disappointed the world again by announcing a hold on funding for the World Health Organization, using the excuse that the WHO severely mismanaged and covered up the outbreak and It is supposedly, in his words, "China centric.” The action by the United States has seriously impeded WHO operations, impaired cooperation and solidarity of WHO member states in the fight against the coronavirus and put hundreds and thousands of lives in danger.

As the coronavirus pandemic forces the world to rethink long-established patterns of globalization, the bottom line for the planet is unmistakable: United we stand, divided we fall.

It appears to be inevitable that global industrial and supply chains will be realigned as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. But the reshuffling had already begun.

The United States has shown leadership in virtually every global crisis — that is, until Donald Trump came along. Now the U.S. president is singlehandedly destroying his country’s reputation.

As Graham Allison of Harvard University has warned, “when a rising power like Athens, or China, threatens to displace a ruling power like Sparta, which had been the dominant power in Greece for a hundred years, or the US, basically alarm bells should sound.” Nowadays, the alarm bells are sounding so loud that they are drowning out ideas that would allow the United States and China to escape what Allison called the “Thucydides Trap.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has sent the world into perilous, uncharted territory from which no country will emerge unscathed. Over half of the global population is under some form of lockdown. All economies, rich and poor, are falling into recession and can limit the fallout only by working together.

On March 28 and 29, Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, or CISS, and the China Development Research Foundation jointly hosted a webinar focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and cooperation between China and the United States. It featured 11 renowned experts and scholars from China and 18 from the U.S.

In this time of economic instability, we can look to the past to understand how we got here, and what might come next for the shifting global economy. China and the U.S. are key players in shaping what comes next.

The advent of the novel coronavirus outbreak has created another breeding ground for conflict aside from the illness itself – social media. The spread of misinformation and the war of words occurring online is not conducive to the transnational cooperation that is necessary to alleviate this crisis.

COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. Its impact on the U.S. is probably the greatest because of President Trump’s attitude and actions. This article provides a short summary of the events during the last few months, then it discusses the political implications in the U.S.