April 2020: Differences between countries impact COVID-19 global response
April 13, 2020
Director of the Center for Canadian Studies Christopher Sands commented on the Trump administration’s plan to block exports of medical equipment to Canada and Latin America, explaining to the Toronto Star that “countries look to their own interests” in times of crisis.
Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Institute Carla Freeman noted in The Washington Post that tensions between the China and U.S. could spur the Chinese government to “restrict sales of supplies such as protective gear for medical personnel and the active ingredients in prescription medicines” to the U.S. government.
Director of Strategic Studies Mara Karlin told NPR that countries and companies around the world are hesitant to provide coronavirus aid to Iran, which is under U.S. sanctions, due to the fear they may also “face sanctions by the Trump administration and be cut off from the U.S. financial system.”
Director of European and Eurasian Studies Erik Jones addressed conflicts between EU members over fiscal issues in the wake of COVID-19, telling the Polcast podcast that the global pandemic is "expressing itself as a local problem,” which has resulted in some countries in Europe turning inward. Listen here
Associate Professor of the Practice of International Economics and Director of the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Filippo Taddei outlined the challenge countries face attempting to collaborate at this time, explaining to Johns Hopkins’ HUB that “each country has its own government with its own responses, which poses a problem for acting uniformly.”
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