Beyond the Pandemic: Isolation or Common Destiny?

GLOBALIZATION can only be achieved through joint efforts of all humanity.

- HOU YUXIANG & WU SIKE

The pandemic is but another facet of the level of globalization that has cropped up as an inevitability and reality of the current situation today. Instead of spurning globalization, humanity should instead spur it further, and see deliberation on it as beneficial for humanity.

At the beginning of 2020, the rise of a global crisis unparalleled during peacetime in recent history crippled the world, and again encouraged discussion and deliberation of the notion of shared future. As the pandemic spreads and reshapes the human way of life around the globe with far-reaching impact, much debate and discussion is going on regarding how the pandemic and its aftermath will reshape globalization and global governance. There are still efforts being considered to deter globalization, to reverse it, and to attempt to take the world back to the time of isolation. Today’s globalization, instead of being optional, is instead an inevitable reality that must be improved upon and strengthened. Rejecting globalization is not only counter-productive, but will also seriously harm the global economy during an ongoing pandemic with lasting effects. In the post-pandemic era, we must confront the trends of and laws governing globalization, adhere to the concept of a community of a shared future for mankind, and construct a new form of international relations featuring mutual respect, fairness, justice, and win-win cooperation.

Globalization Is not the Cause of the Spread of a Pandemic