Can the US restore its supremacy?

While the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to propagate dangerously across the world, there is no denying that its health risks are real. Unfortunately, it has been used politically by the US to further its trade war against China, with a singular objective of bringing the Chinese to the negotiation table.

Beneath this global propaganda lies another, more sinister agenda. It is looking like the US and some of its allies are using the pandemic to cover up their poor governance. Without a unified global approach to contain Covid-19 and mitigate its risks, the global war against this pandemic is already looking like a lost cause.

What makes it even more unpalatable is that a whole generation of young talents across the world, together with their dreams and aspirations, will be warehoused in cold storage for many years to come. Growing psychosis of US leadership

For more than 30 years, the US has failed to nurture the competitive edges that made America great. Instead, its politicians, power-brokers and allies have been indulging in their own misguided elitism and ideological beliefs, leading to constant advocacy of destructive policies around the world.

From the Middle East to Africa, they had exaggerated the severity of terrorism and used it as an excuse to ravage many of these largely Islamic economies, leading to widespread human migration.

Fortunately, the world has taken notice that despite massive destruction and manipulation, the US can no longer win any war decisively or strategically. Even a hermit state like North Korea can see that it is pointless to continue talking with the US.

The US has not only divided itself with its systemic injustice and racism. Through its allies, President Donald Trump's administration has managed to propagate malicious social engineering around the world. The recent Black Lives Matter protests and propagation of the Hong Kong democracy protests are just a small part of these growing menaces.

It does not help when the US persistently sanctions and bans foreign multinational corporations unilaterally, as it did to Alstom and Huawei, and more recently against

TikTok. By curtailing the technological advancements of these foreign MNCs, the US is making a mockery of the global rules-based economy and has ended up looking like a big bully.

Joe Biden, the Democrats' presidential nominee, and Kamala Harris, his running mate, were right to slam Trump and the Republicans with their call to "restore a broken nation." Can the Democrats and the American people save the US from its growing psychosis?

Pandemic reality

Trump and his allies were quick to use the pandemic as a trade weapon against the Chinese, deliberately labeling it as the "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus." They had obviously miscalculated the risks of the pandemic, presuming that it would go away like any other flu virus in no time.

As for those who persistently advocated that this virus was engineered or propagated by China, the truth is that if it were so, the US would have provided evidence and buried the Chinese by now.

As such, it would be more meaningful if these conspiracy theorists focused their attention on why some governments are deliberately misinforming and withholding vital information from their citizens, and exposed them accordingly.

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Singapore consistently reported an exceptionally low mortality rate despite its exceptionally high infection rate, no country bothered to learn from this, for a very obvious reason. There is no globally accepted protocol for reporting of mortality rates from this pandemic.

So it does not help when that all reports and updates on the pandemic are now being channeled through the White House. Even if the Trump administration thinks it can creatively manage the data to boost the Republicans' presidential re-election bid in November, it may be in for a massive surprise, as this pandemic is unlikely to go away or subside by itself in the next three months.

With new evidence and tracing coming from China and New Zealand that the virus can be traced to frozen and chilled food, and rising cases of re-infection, it looks like the fight against this virus will be protracted before it can be mitigated effectively.

Even if vaccines are available in the foreseeable future, there is no assurance that they will not end up doing more harm than the virus itself. They could also give a false sense of security.