China’s coronavirus soft-power push will fail if it cannot defend freedoms – at home and abroad

Most of Europe had fallen. Britain was barely holding its own. A great number of Americans remained committed to isolationism. This was the situation in late 1941, before Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States to war in defence of freedom. In 2020, it is déjà vu.At this hour of crisis, there is no doubt what humanity is fighting against – a virus, a lower species that has no capacity for reasoning, and therefore knows no fear and bears no shame.But what is humanity fighting for today? Yes…

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