Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations
Reports
2021
Sep
24
Past Event
Aftershocks: Pandemic politics and the end of the old international order
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2021
Sep
16
Past Event
Assessing the US-ROK partnership in the global trade agenda: A conversation with South Korean Trade Minister Han-Koo Yeo
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2021
May
20
Past Event
AAPI Heritage Month: Safeguarding Asian American inclusion and belonging
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Thomas Wright
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
After the submarines, I think Europeans really needed to have some proof that something was going well [... With world leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly, and with the fallout over the submarine deal still ongoing] there was a need to just lift this irritant. [...] It’s definitely not enough, but it’s a good first step in acknowledging at least that your partners deserve a minimum of respect. One less irritant cannot be a bad thing.
It’s basically impossible to have a proper investigation [into the origins of COVID-19] if one of the main parties doesn’t want to cooperate. We need to proceed as if both hypotheses are true.