Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations
Reports
Reviving travel in the COVID-19 era: Assessing the challenges
Aftershocks: Pandemic politics and the end of the old international order
Assessing the US-ROK partnership in the global trade agenda: A conversation with South Korean Trade Minister Han-Koo Yeo
John McArthur
Director - Center for Sustainable Development
Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development
Thomas Wright
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
The American travel ban on Europeans felt much more arbitrary and also allowed for much less exceptions... It reinforced the feeling that the American passport is stronger than the European passports. [The announcement of AUKUS] came on the back of a very difficult summer transatlantically for Joe Biden. [Lifting the ban, which only applies to vaccinated travelers, still excludes many countries where the vaccine is not yet easily available or recognized by the U.S. The administration is also working through a backlog of visas, which were halted during the ban.]
You really have a failure of developed countries’ leadership post-Covid [on global vaccine distribution]. This is going to have consequences.
I wouldn’t say I’m hugely hopeful about [Biden's trip to Europe for the G-20 and COP26 summits]. I think it’s a test.
