Opinion | Trump's Covid-19 response shows he has given up on a competition with China that doesn't involve guns and bombs
In reality, those plans are far from clear-eyed about what great-power competition will require. Military strength has a role to play, but countries have always competed through means other than building more tanks and ships. Getting serious about preparing for a sustained era of great-power competition requires paying attention to less flashy issues, like public health.Tom Pennington/Getty Images
Reputation, attractiveness, and government competence now count for more. And the US's failure to maintain its public-health system, greatly magnifying the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, has jeopardized its ability to compete. each country's model. Although inspirational, these feats — like putting the first man in orbit or the first man on the Moon — had little direct benefit to anyone besides the engineers and astronauts themselves. Yet Washington and Moscow, and audiences throughout the world, understood that scientific rivalries were part of great-power competition.into an element of great-power competition.
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