book chapter
Invisible Battlegrounds: The COVID-19 Chapter in U.S.-China Relations
Abstract
This introductory chapter offers an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on U.S.-China relations. It introduces the main findings and recommendations of the chapters in the book, highlighting the war-like impacts and damages the pandemic has inflicted on the two countries in terms of separation and decoupling, information warfare and cognitive dissonance, as well as the stimulation of nationalist sentiments and anti-Asian racism. By providing an outline of the book's content, this chapter sets the stage for an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional assessment of the pandemic's broad-reaching consequences on this bilateral relationship. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024. This book is an open access publication.
Author keywords
coronavirus disease 2019, u.s.-china relations, covid-19 origins, separation, decoupling, supply chain, people-to-people (p2p), information warfare, perception, cognitive dissonance, chinese virus, nationalism, anti-asian racism, echo chamber effect, reconciliation