“…While more discussions were towards a more transparent governance process, a more decisive mechanism for global emergency response may be formed, the deliberation and the process for moving ahead along those directions will probably be a compromise among different countries, cultures, and organizations. For sure it will take a long term to settle on a more effective mechanism for combating global disasters causing health crises such as COVID-19, natural disasters such as super typhoons or hurricanes (Martín, Li, and Cutter 2017), earthquakes (Field et al 2017), and tsunamis (Chinnasamy and Sunde 2016), as well as outerspace threats to our home planet (Shams et al 2019). Whatever the eventual outcome of this pandemic, it is clear that the world is being changed, and many relationships are reshaped and continue to change with the evolving of the Pandemic.…”