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Coronavirus crisis could have lasting impact on global political economy, trigger new equations among nations<\/h1>\n

This crisis could have a lasting impact on the global political economy, trigger new equations among nations<\/h2>\n

It would have been surprising if China had not come up at all in Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u2019s discussion with the neighbouring South Asian leaders over the weekend on a possible joint effort to deal with the\u00a0coronavirus crisis (Corona Diplomacy) . After all, China has been the epicentre of the crisis that unfolded since last December. It also looms larger than ever before on the international relations of the Subcontinent.<\/p>\n

It was no surprise at all that the Pakistani representative, Dr Zafar Mirza, chose to connect the discussion on South Asian regional cooperation on the coronavirus crisis to China. Mirza was sitting in for Prime Minister\u00a0Imran Khan, who was the only leader from the region who could not join the conversation. While the comments of Mirza, the special adviser on health to the Pakistan PM, on the\u00a0lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir, drew widespread attention, his brief reference to China did not.<\/p>\n

Mirza rightly pointed to the importance of South Asia learning from China\u2019s experience in containing the spread of the virus. He went a step further to remind his colleagues that China is an observer to the SAARC grouping.There are many observers in the SAARC, including the US, European Union, Japan, South Korea and Iran, all of whom are struggling in their own ways to deal with the global diffusion of the coronavirus crisis (Corona Diplomacy). But it is China alone that figured in Mirza\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

There is no question that Pakistan\u2019s deepening strategic partnership has defined Islamabad\u2019s response to the coronavirus crisis (Corona Diplomacy). While most countries of the Subcontinent scrambled to evacuate their student population trapped in Wuhan, Pakistan seemed unwilling. Islamabad was more than deferential to Beijing\u2019s sensitivities against countries evacuating their citizens and students from China.<\/p>\n

As Beijing criticised other countries for trying to \u201cisolate China\u201d, Islamabad stood like a rock in solidarity with Beijing. One other country that demonstrated a similar level of solidarity was Cambodia, whose president flew into Beijing at the height of the crisis to stand with the Chinese leadership. Most observers of China would designate Pakistan and Cambodia as Beijing\u2019s only \u201callies\u201d in the developing world.<\/p>\n

While Beijing values the public demonstration of solidarity, it has far bigger challenges at hand. After being on the political defensive through much of January and February as the crisis exploded in Wuhan and Hubei province, it has now gone on the offensive. Once it got control over the epidemic at home, Beijing has turned to changing the narrative on the crisis.<\/p>\n

Three themes dominate Beijing\u2019s effort. The first relates to domestic politics and is about presenting the \u201cLeader\u201d Xi Jinping as the \u201chero\u201d in the now \u201csuccessful people\u2019s war\u201d against the virus. As the death toll from coronavirus (Corona Diplomacy) rose rapidly during the last two months (it now stands above 3,200) there was widespread international speculation about the political consequences of the crisis for Xi\u2019s leadership of the Communist Party of China. But Xi appears to have weathered the storm (at least for now) by silencing the critics and cracking down harder on the dissidents.<\/p>\n

The second theme in China\u2019s effort is to counter the perception that the virus originated in that country. Beijing is objecting strongly to calling it \u201cChina Virus\u201d or \u201cWuhan Virus\u201d. It has dismissed the criticisms of the CCP\u2019s initial failures in responding to the crisis and has now revelled in attacking the Western inability to learn from the Chinese experience. Chinese spokesmen have also fanned conspiracy theories about the US army bringing the virus to Wuhan.<\/p>\n

The third element of Chinese strategy has been to claim global leadership in containing the spread of coronavirus (Corona Diplomacy). By sending medical aid to Iran and Italy \u2014 two countries most affected by the crisis \u2014 and others, Beijing is arguing that it is part of the solution to the global crisis rather than its cause. China\u2019s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York has written to all member states assuring them of its commitment to counter the global healthcare crisis and address the massive problems of economic dislocation triggered by it.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s global diplomatic offensive has inevitably fed into US domestic politics and the contestation between the Republicans and Democrats in an election year. While the Republicans are blaming Beijing for triggering the crisis, the Democrats are attacking President Donald Trump for failing to develop an effective response.<\/p>\n

Major disasters cutting across national borders often compel the victims to rethink the contested relationships with their adversaries, next door or in distant lands. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, for example, have often created diplomatic openings for nations to come together. The coronavirus crisis (Corona Diplomacy), however, has done little so far to lower the unfolding tensions between the world\u2019s two leading powers\u2014 the US and China.<\/p>\n

Experts studying the so-called \u201cdisaster diplomacy\u201d suggest that diplomatic openings triggered by calamities tend to be short-lived. Amidst the demonstration of mankind\u2019s smallness in the face of nature\u2019s fury, leaders tend to think big about resolving differences with each other. But the promise, studies say, to privilege the collective good above the narrow framing of national interest, dissipates quickly.<\/p>\n

As the impact of the calamity wears off, so does the positive thinking. Old suspicions take hold of security establishments again. Sooner than later, the default negative positions reassert themselves. We have seen this happen repeatedly in political responses to the multiple disasters that have fallen upon the subcontinent in recent decades.<\/p>\n

Might India\u2019s current diplomatic efforts at cooperation with Pakistan and rejuvenating regionalism lead to the same old dead-end? Pessimists would argue that the quest for cooperation with Pakistan is a fool\u2019s errand. Optimists would suggest change is inevitable and that Delhi must continue to find a way to rewrite the political script between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Realists would want to enter a caveat. Unlike many natural disasters, which are mostly one-shot events, the coronavirus crisis could have deep and lasting impact on the global political economy and inevitably trigger new equations among nations. Is India ready to seize the new possibilities for reconstituting the South Asian region? Delhi has certainly taken an important first step forward in renewing the multilateral conversation with the neighbours. It must now follow through with actions to facilitate productive outcomes for the Subcontinent as a whole.<\/p>\n

Source: Indian Express | C Raja Mohan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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