Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic, a disaster for humankind in the twenty-first century, has posed a significant impact over the already established US-centred global order. This established order has been challenged by the rise of China, particularly due to some uneven trade war between the two global giants: the United States and China. This US-China dichotomy is further enhanced due to the outbreak of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The inward policy of the United States during the pandemic and the growing cooperation of China in preventing the pandemic is establishing China as a saviour to the coronavirus-affected countries. Considering the rivalry between the United States and China amid the pandemic, the main objective of the paper is to find out their global responses to COVID-19 and how they maximise their opportunities to lead the post-COVID-19 global order. This article argues that China’s ‘One Belt, One Road (OBOR)’ policy could be one of the forefront issues for Chinese leaders to lead the post-COVID-19 global order due to Trump’s inward ‘America First’ policy. Finally, the article examines the challenges of China to formulate its desire to changing global order having the US-China dichotomy and geopolitical barriers as well.
Highlights
Towards the end of 2019, the world witnessed, and still is witnessing, a new and an unprecedented experience in the form of COVID-19 pandemic
When the coronavirus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China (Chatterjee et al, 2020), it may have been unthinkable that the virus could invade the entire world so violently and change the course of world values and politics
Books and journals were explored, while newspapers, magazines, and websites were used for non-academic resources which help the writer to understand the basic idea of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on international politics, following the US-China dichotomy
Summary
Towards the end of 2019, the world witnessed, and still is witnessing, a new and an unprecedented experience in the form of COVID-19 pandemic This is the first time since World War II that the number of deaths due to the coronavirus has changed the established world system. As the coronavirus began to manifest its terrible form and spread beyond the border of Asia to the western countries one by one, a different kind of war against the virus began worldwide. It is like an endless battle of the world with an unseen enemy
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