Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Post Pandemic World
For the United States, the geopolitics of the COVID-19 pandemic will boil down to a contest with China.
The COVID-19 pandemic could transform the world. Many geopolitical experts are concerned that this crisis, more than any other this century, has the potential to permanently reconstitute the global order. Some are even arguing that while the United States is abdicating global leadership during the current pandemic, China is using it to reinforce its growing status as the alternate destination for economic aid, medical and scientific support, and leadership for many nations, including Western and developed nations like Italy. Some commentators claim that China is using the crisis to dethrone the United States as the global superpower.
