The Shifting Geopolitics of Coronavirus and the Demise of Neoliberalism with the Big Challenge for United Nations

Abstract

The world is facing a new geopolitical challenge in the pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19. The world economy has shrunk by about 3%. The trade war between the United States and China and their defensive agreements with other countries was already a huge problem, but it has reached a critical stage due to COVID-19. The United States has filed multiple lawsuits against China, alleging that they purposely released the Coronavirus. The objective of this article is to examine the shifting Geopolitics, focusing on international economic and defensive relationships among countries, and especially on the Second Cold War between the United States and China. In this pandemic situation, more countries are facing economic downturn and loss of human life. A new geopolitical journey has been started, which is based on the availability of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and medical products. All previous problems that had not yet been solved by the United Nations have become fresh challenges. Another big challenge is the demise of Neoliberalism in the world. Bureaucratic wars have started in the interregional and intraregional zones, and the Second Cold War has started between the United States and China. A major finding of this article is the significant correlation between the death rate of different countries and the shift of geopolitics to a critical stage.

Transforming global health education during the COVID-19 era: perspectives from a transnational collective of global health students and recent graduates

“…In other cases, the pandemic combined with other crises—such as civil unrest, financial collapse and war—deepened the already existing educational divide among students, which also manifested in GHE. While some of these challenges went beyond adaptive capacity or control of academic institutions themselves, they illustrate the impact of complex geopolitical tensions and the politics of GH on access and quality of GHE and training 42 43. Evidently, the disruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic do not exist in isolation and one must systematically consider all the factors at play.…”