Europe soon joined the effort anyway, moving to take up the idea with the World Health Organisation later this month. For the seven decades after the end of World War II, the United States was seen as a defender of transparency and cooperation. Much of the world views with disappointment and sadness an America laid low by the virus and Trump’s erratic response. “Normally, however imperfectly, America would also have mobilized the world,” Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister, wrote in a recent essay. “If the world doesn’t respond and act now, when will it ever act?”c.2020 The New York Times Company

Source: bd News24 May 12, 2020 01:30 UTC