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After scuttling its partnership with Beijing on public health, the U.S. was unprepared for the pandemic.
The lesson of COVID-19, influential politicians and commentators are claiming, is that the United States must delink itself from China. “China unleashed this plague on the world,” Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas recently told Sean Hannity, “and China has to be held accountable.” Cotton, who has proposed legislation to ban Americans from buying Chinese pharmaceuticals, isn’t alone. Representative Jim Banks of Indiana has urged Donald Trump to boost tariffs on Chinese products and put the money—which he incorrectly thinks would come from Chinese exporters rather than American importers—into a fund for Americans hurt by the coronavirus. In a recent essay in The American Interest, the political scientist Andrew Michta used the virus to demand a “hard decoupling” from China. Citing that essay approvingly, my Atlantic colleague Shadi Hamid recently argued, “After the crisis, whenever after is, the relationship with China cannot and should not go back to normal.”
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In late January, Shari Rosen traveled from her home in Shanghai, China to California for a one week trip to celebrate the birthdays of her children. She is leaving behind a country in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. That one week turned into six as the coronavirus emerged on the West Coast of the United States and travel restrictions made it impossible to quickly return to Shanghai. Instead, She waited it out in Los Angeles working to find a way to return to her 17-year-old business that provides services for children with disabilities in Shanghai.
Read more: "China has stepped up like heroes!" Former CNY woman in Shanghai on Coronavirus
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Spain has overtaken China to become the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus fatalities in the world after Italy.
The latest figures from the Health Ministry on Wednesday put the number of deaths at 3,434, above the 3,287 recorded in China, and behind Italy, where at least 6,820 people have died from the Covid-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Read more: With 3,434 deaths, Spain now has more coronavirus victims than China
Spain hated being linked to the deadly 1918 flu pandemic. Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ label echoes that.
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Don’t call it the Spanish flu.
That’s what Spain said in 1918 at the start of what would become the deadliest pandemic in history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. The Spanish got tagged with the killer name during the end of World War I because Spain was the first country to report the disease publicly, not because it originated there.
Spaniards called the highly contagious disease “The Soldier of Naples” after a catchy song popular at the time. But when the deadly virus exploded across the world and became known as “Spanish influenza,” Spain protested that its people were being falsely stigmatized.
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On March 19, US President Donald Trump stood in the White House to give yet another statement about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A photograph of the president's speech notes showed the word "Corona" scratched out and replaced with "Chinese" written in sharpie.
The photo, taken by a Washington Post reporter, exposes how factually inaccurate Trump's racist language is. Rather than informing the public with scientifically accurate information, Trump is policing language in order to create a political distraction and cover up his own mishandling of the epidemic.
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