Constructive powers among the G20 should act to reform the central institutions of global governance for the post-covid era, argues Kevin Rudd
THE THING about a crisis—a real one, rather than a confected one—is that it exposes realities for what they are, as opposed to how the political class would wish to present them, either to their own people or the world at large. The uncomfortable truth about the current coronavirus crisis is that much of the complex web of national and global institutions established to deal with global pandemics and economic implosions has failed.
The tragedy is that much of the current crisis was avoidable. The key machinery to handle global public-health and economic responses was already in place. But for various reasons, it was not mobilised—or not mobilised early enough to remain ahead of the curve.
Moreover, America would increasingly withdraw from the multilateral institutions that it created in the 1940s at Bretton Woods and San Francisco, or else render them impotent. That would turn the UN, the World Trade Organisation and the World Bank into Potemkin villages—a bit like the League of Nations’ curious decision to continue meeting after the German invasion of Poland, then France and then Russia.
China, too, is divided between nationalists and globalists. Some Chinese officials have crudely sought to blame the American military for the outbreak in Wuhan. Others have tried to keep open the lines of global collaboration. Beijing’s hardheads know the coronavirus has compounded the damage to China’s economy from earlier domestic policy settings hostile to the private sector, and from the trade war with America.
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