The Geopolitical Consequences of COVID-19: Assessing Hawkish Mass Opinion in China

Abstract

PUBLIC COMMENTARY IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 suggests that America's self-confidence as a global power is at an all-time low. In the months following the acceleration of the pandemic in March 2020, mainstream political discourse was flooded with observations that the United States was one of the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of confirmed cases and deaths, 1 that its institutions were JOSHUA BYUN is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on questions related to grand strategy, alliance politics, and military effectiveness. D.G. KIM is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on foreign policy, public opinion, race, ethnicity, and politics. SICHEN LI is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the political economy of high-tech trade and great power relations.

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