Blaming China for COVID-19 needlessly cripples multilateralism at a time when we need it most
Multilateralism provides the connective tissue that knits countries together precisely when they are most likely to go their own way.
Benjamin Shobert is the author of “Blaming China,” and is a Senior Associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research, where he is focused on market access, regulatory harmonization and industrial policy in the healthcare and life science sectors in China and across southeast Asia.
Multilateralism provides the connective tissue that knits countries together precisely when they are most likely to go their own way.