A disturbing polemic is emerging against the background noise of coronavirus reports from around the world: the cause of the problem is the other, the foreign. Xenophobia is alive and well and might get worse with serious implications if COVID-19 doesn’t run its course in short order. Beyond the human costs of the disease spreading too quickly and the real human suffering of it taking too long to resolve as we stare at the abyss of Recession or even Depression, we may also find that suspending the globalized world order has dire consequences for diplomacy, peace and the future at a time when we need more global collaboration than ever. Let’s start by looking at China.
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