Simon Duke
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have a lot more in common than either would care to admit. Both leaders have blundered through the Covid-19 pandemic — their response has been to deny, cover up and deflect blame, rather than stand to account for any of the 350,000 people who have lost their lives from the disease so far.
As Kevin Rudd, Australia’s former prime minster, wrote recently in the magazine Foreign Affairs: “The uncomfortable truth is that China and the United States are both likely to emerge from this crisis significantly diminished.” The Trump administration had created an “indelible impression . . . of a country incapable of handling its own crises, let alone anyone else’s”, he added.
The growing enmity between the two
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