id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-031840-k9l91unc Lu, Li Forum: COVID-19 Dispatches 2020-09-11 .txt text/plain 15686 686 53 With death count worldwide reaching 586,000 merely 7 months after its first outbreak in China in late December 2019 and 13.6 million cases reported in 188 countries and territories as of July 2020, this ongoing pandemic has spread far beyond domain of world health problem to become an unprecedented challenge facing humanity at every level. On one hand, the eagerness to build solidarity with East Asian countries represented by Japan and South Korea might be a strategy to react to the racialization of COVID-19 as a "Chinese virus" and the demonization of China as a "public enemy" and "trouble maker" in the Euro-American political and media agenda (Viala-Gaudefroy & Lindaman, 2020). On the other hand, the rise of this East Asian imaginary centering around China's historical and cultural bonds with Japan and South Korea has far-reaching implications for China's geopolitical strategies beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and the realm of public health. ./cache/cord-031840-k9l91unc.txt ./txt/cord-031840-k9l91unc.txt