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Author: Xirui Li, NTU Intergovernmental cooperation between the United States and China was an important part of the fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Yet serious collaboration to combat COVID-19 is yet to materialise. The state of US–China bilateral relations and the failure to cooperate has arguably worsened the pandemic. Despite similarities between the two initial outbreaks, COVID-19 seems to have deepened the antagonism and rivalry between the United States and China. Many attribute the lack of pandemic cooperation to a preoccupation with the ongoing trade and propaganda war . But signs of US–China cooperation on other...
