On the Coronavirus, China and the U.S. Are Failing the Leadership Test

On the Coronavirus, China and the U.S. Are Failing the Leadership Test: Where it counts most—meaning for the well-being of the largest numbers of people in the world—there is no real leadership competition between the U.S. and China. The ongoing pandemic has revealed, instead, the stark limitations of each of these global giants’ political systems and, above all, their fundamental selfishness.