Yanzhong Huang

Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. He is also professor at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. He has written extensively on global health and China.

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Masks are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China January 31, 2020. New York City alone could face a shortage of millions of masks in the coming months. The image shows a human hand with two bright orange bandaids on the thumb and middle finger picking its way across a huge pile of masks. REUTERS/Aly Song
Trade

A Truce in the Trade War Will Save American Lives

by Susan Shirk, Yanzhong Huang

Immediately lifting all tariffs on personal protection equipment will enable doctors and nurses to safely do their work

A woman wearing a mask to prevent the coronavirus is reflected in mirrors in Seoul, South Korea on February 24, 2020. This is an amazing image of a woman walking by a display of spherical mirrors, the sort of which someone might place on a corner to see a wide angle. She is wearing a black face mask and is reflected in all the mirrors. REUTERS/Heo Ran
Trade

Coronavirus and the World Economy

by Yanzhong Huang

A pandemic longer than a year may lead to business failures, mass unemployment, and a world thrown into global recession

Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a railway station in Changsha, Hunan province, China, February 4. The photo shows several people clad head-to-toe in protective suits fogging what is presumably a disinfectant in thick clouds. REUTERS/cnsphoto
Migration

Panicky Responses to the Coronavirus are Dangerous—Here’s Why

by Yanzhong Huang

Fear of the virus may spread faster than the virus itself, a potential threat to health, liberty, trade, and the economy