Steinberg oped urges US-China cooperation to combat COVID19

May 12, 2020

Nikkei Asia

Public Administration & International Affairs Department

Social Science Ph.D. Program

China

COVID-19

International Agreements

United States

Nikkei Asia

James Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, urges the United States and China to work together in his op-ed for Nikkei Asian Review “China and U.S. must cooperate to lead world out of coronavirus danger.” Steinberg writes, “China and the U.S. together bear a special responsibility to pick up this call and lead the global response, just as they did in 2008-09. But to do so will require a fundamental rethinking about the direction of their relationship… It will be hard to sustain meaningful cooperation for this and other looming crises if each side treats the other as a rival and potential enemy competing for power and influence everywhere."