Opinion: Ten Reasons the U.S. and China Should Cooperate Now to Stop the Pandemic

Cheng Li is director of John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings Institution. Ryan McElveen is associate director of John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings Institution.

If the history of the Covid-19 pandemic were written today, the narrative would not be dominated by the global common cause that has characterized past pandemics, but rather by handwringing and finger pointing.