COVID-19, the Anthropocene, and the Imperative of US–China Cooperation

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It is widely acknowledged that cooperation between the USA and China, the world’s two largest economies, is crucial to global peace and sustainability (Bi et al. 2014). But as a recent article in EcoHealth persuasively argues, US–China cooperation in research and policy is also essential to global health (Smiley Evans et al. 2020). In this article, international leaders from key disease research groups in both countries stated: “China and the USA are well placed to lead efforts in emerging infectious disease (EID) preparedness both from a national interest standpoint, resource availability and a global health interconnectedness perspective”. Therefore, amidst the worst pandemic in recent history, it is profoundly worrying that this crucial bilateral relationship has been characterized more by recrimination than cooperation. …