Washington provoked a panic around COVID-19 in the hope of delivering a powerful blow to the Chinese economy, but the situation got out of hand. Now, even the US allies are turning to China for help.
This was explained by Xia Guohan, a researcher at the Beijing Grandview Institution analytical center, in a publication for the Global Times.
He recalled how the US administration tried to indicate that China is guilty of a new coronavirus infection. By this, Washington hoped to protect the European “partners” from cooperation with China, the strategic opponent of the United States. Only, ultimately, did the plan fail when EU countries turned to Beijing for help in tackling the epidemic.
According to the author, in many ways, Washington himself contributed to this alignment in the international arena. While the American leadership was fueling the situation in the world, in the States themselves no one thought to deal with the prevention of the epidemic. When the authorities realized their mistake, they made another – they unilaterally closed the border with the European Union, putting an end to the previous anti-Chinese campaign.
“The United States could join forces with the EU in countering the pandemic, but instead they set up partners, hitting Europeans in their level of confidence in Americans, which was already very low. Probably, such a move has angered Europe, ” said Xia Gohan.
Washington hoped to isolate China, but instead pushed his own allies towards it with his own hands. And for the United States the situation is very depressing. According to the author, coronavirus can destroy American hegemony itself. He recalled that a US military facility had already been closed in South Korea after the threat of infection arose for the Americans there. If the same measures are taken in Europe, the NATO crisis will reach a new level.