Covid-19 sharply headbutts U.S. hegemony

Within just 100 days, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly shifted the balance of power in the global system from the United States toward China- and this trend looks set to continue, or accelerate, over the coming months and years.

This is the case not just because U.S. deaths and death-rates from this virus (currently 71,152 total reported deaths, or 21.78 per 100,000 of population) are considerably greater than China’s (currently 4,663 total deaths, or 0.33 per 100,000), but for a number of other reasons, too. Key among them are: