China News Service, March 23rd. The United States "New York Times" published a report on the 23rd that with the new coronavirus crisis escalating around the world, the United States is taking a step back and giving up its long-standing role.
The Brussels-based report quoted international security analysts as saying that US agencies "seemed to be unable to cope with the domestic epidemic" and adopted a "Trump-style solo approach." As China reaches out to other countries, the United States "seems unwilling or incapable of leading."
Data map: On March 13, local time, US President Trump announced a "national emergency" at the White House in response to the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong
The report pointed out that President Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement under the name of "U.S. Priority" and had questioned the role of the United Nations and NATO, all of which he hated the multinational institutions established and led by the United States since World War II. which performed.
As the crisis of the new coronavirus continues to escalate around the world, the United States is stepping back and giving up its long-standing role. The United States was a generous global leader able to coordinate ambitious multinational responses in the event of a global emergency.
During the 2008 economic collapse and the Ebola crisis in 2014, the United States assumed the role of coordinator of global responses, and although it was sometimes imperfect, it was accepted and appreciated by its allies and even its enemies.
But the United States today is not taking such steps.
"There is a new kind of selfishness in the United States under President Trump." The report quoted Jan Tesho, senior researcher at the German Marshall Foundation.
Teshaw said that Trump's unabashed nationalism and "US first" slogan, he first blamed the new crown virus on China and then on Europe, plus his various misstatements of facts, "meaning The United States no longer serves the planet. "
"Although the United States has always valued its own interests, it is also very generous," he said. "This generosity seems to have disappeared, which is not good for the world."
The report also quoted Claudia Major, an international security analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, as saying that the crisis confirmed the structural change in US political leadership.
"There is no global leadership in the United States and no American model," Major explained. "To succeed, you need to be able to control the domestic epidemic of the pandemic, unite allies around you, lead this alliance, and provide the world with Public goods, organizing a global response, like the Ebola virus. "
In contrast, U.S. agencies "seem unable to cope with the domestic epidemic," she said, and are adopting a "Trump-only approach."
The report pointed out that the Trump administration even allows close US allies to figure out their own ways. Trump has defended his ban on banning all EU travellers from entering the United States, but he has not consulted or even notified them in advance on the matter.
On March 17, local time, almost no people or vehicles could be seen in the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. French President Macron issued a national television speech on the evening of the 16th local time, announcing that France was in a "wartime state" to fight the epidemic; according to his speech, the "law closure" measures were implemented throughout the country and the control measures were unprecedentedly upgraded. Photo by Li Yang, China News Agency
Although the United States is the rotating chairman of the Group of Seven nations this year, French President Emmanuel Macron called Trump twice in 10 days, suggesting that the G7 summit be held in video format to discuss Virus problem. Trump agreed, but let Macron organize.
German officials have accused the Trump administration, allegedly Trump himself, of bidding $ 1 billion for German pharmaceutical company Cure-Vac for a monopoly on a vaccine that may be effective against the new crown virus. Germans and Europeans are generally angry.
The White House has denied the allegations, and the German company has denied the bid. But the company's main investors have made it clear that there is some kind of contact.
Regardless of the fact, "the point is that people think Trump has the ability to do this kind of thing," Major said, "our transatlantic relationship has entered this state, so that people will say," Yes, listen It's something this president has done. '"
"Most of us look at the crisis from the perspective of what it means for our families, our livelihoods, and the future of our country," said Peter Westmarcott, a former British ambassador to Washington.
"But obviously, we are also watching how others respond to this crisis," he continued. "Standing in the distance, Trump's performance basically confirms what people on the Atlantic side think of him-everything It's about 'I', not taking responsibility for earlier mistakes. "
Data Figure: Researchers are demonstrating the experimental process of developing a new coronavirus mRNA vaccine. Photo by Tang Yanjun
Rumors about Trump's attempt to acquire the German company, "whether true or false, have not responded well to European media," West Marcotte said, "this is more like 'America First' than America. The traditional role of a great power. "
The report believes that China is in contrast to the United States. China provides much-needed respiratory protection and surgical masks, ventilators, and medical teams to Italy and Serbia. The two countries have condemned their European allies for failing to help early and effectively.
On Wednesday, China provided the EU as a whole with 2 million surgical masks, 200,000 N95 advanced masks, and 50,000 test kits. China shipped millions of masks to Belgium on Friday.
On March 18, China Eastern's second foreign aid anti-epidemic expert charter flight MU7041 took off from Shanghai Pudong Airport, and transported a second batch of 13 Chinese and 17.3 tons of supplies to the Italian anti-epidemic medical expert group to Milan, Italy. Urgently needed medical treatment items, including ventilator, monitor, dual channel infusion pump and other ICU equipment, portable color ultrasound, laboratory testing reagents and protective materials, commonly used drugs, etc. Photo by China Press Agency reporter Yin Liqin
Major said that while China was providing assistance to Italy and Serbia, "it was also asking, where are your European friends?" But the United States "seems unwilling or incapable of leading."
"The thing that keeps society together collapses, the United States is more at risk than Europe." The report mentions Marycher Shaq's biggest concern. She is a former member of the European Parliament and now works at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center.
She hopes for more constructive coordination rather than rhetoric like Trump, refusing to acknowledge the problem.