The US and China: Getting Beyond the COVID-19 Blame Game
As the world grapples with the devastation being wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, US and Chinese officials have seemed unable to resist hurling accusations at one another. The purpose of this article is to show that even a nascent understanding of what unites both cultures, in the way ideas are passed down and how thought progresses through the centuries in both the West and the East, can be most helpful in adopting the concept of “scientific globalism,” through which nations can join together to overcome this emergency and those to come.