Deteriorating U.S.-China Relations Don’t Bode Well for the Pandemic

Global problems need global cooperation

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readJul 24, 2020

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This was not a good week for U.S.-China relations. On Tuesday, the White House ordered China to close its consulate in Houston. By Friday, China had retaliated by ordering the closure of the American consulate in Chengdu. The U.S. Justice Department also recently accused Chinese

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.