COVID-19 and American Global Leadership

Over at East Asia Forum, Joe Nye has a very good piece on the coronavirus and U.S. global leadership.

Here’s one paragraph:

If the key to the United States’ future security and prosperity is learning the importance of ‘power with’ as well as ‘power over’, the response by the Trump administration to the current COVID-19 crisis is not encouraging. Every country puts its own interests first, but the important question is how broadly or narrowly those interests are defined. Trump has shown an inclination toward short-term, zero-sum transactional interpretations with little attention to institutions, reciprocity and a long shadow of the future. The United States has stepped back from its tradition of long-term enlightened self-interest.