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The novel coronavirus pandemic has become a global event that could reshape the world order, said Heba Gamal, deputy chairman of the future studies department at the Cairo-based Institute of National Planning.
"The pandemic may change the United States' and the European Union countries' global position in the long run," Gamal, also professor of political science at the institute, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Missteps and unreadiness to tackle the pandemic have undermined confidence in the capacity and competence of U.S. and EU governance, Gamal explained.
"Human rights are more about the right to live than the rights of individual expressions," Gamal said, adding that the United States has even failed to coordinate with its old European allies.
She highlighted that some countries' national institutions have been proved more effective in tackling the virus crisis when compared with the U.S.' most advocated private sector model that was ill-prepared in responding to COVID-19.
"Some national institutions that provided medical services in China have proved successful, while we saw the U.S. has started, not like before, to speak about the intervention of the army in making masks, gloves and sterilizers," Gamal said.
Beijing moved quickly and professionally to cope with the pandemic and provide medical assistance and aid to more the 100 countries, Gamal noted.
She said that China has recovered economically faster than many reports expected, adding the Belt and Road Initiative could serve as an alternative to promote the process of globalization.
"The outbreak of the virus would promote the principles of shared future for humankind rather than trade war," Gamal said. (Marwa Yahya)
