Haiqing Yu, RMIT University and Michael Keane, Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the epicentre where the coronavirus pandemic started. Now, there is face saving required – as well as agenda-setting in the global power play. China played a decisive role in combating the invisible enemy. Chinese officials and academics are taking this …

Rusli Abdulah, Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF) and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) After reducing its number of new locally acquired COVID-19 cases to zero, China must help other affected countries recover economically. This is the only way it can ensure its own economic recovery. Over 40 economists, based both in and outside mainland China, …

Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University looks at the political strain Coronavirus is putting on leaders across the globe. Leaders of the world’s largest economies came together at a virtual G20  this week to “do whatever it takes to overcome the coronavirus pandemic”. But the reality is that global capacity to deal with the greatest challenge to …