OPINION: Preparations necessary for global security in coronavirus age

There is no bigger crisis in the 21st century that has more directly impacted ordinary people throughout the world than pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan each brought extreme suffering.But the pandemic is a globally shared experience, affecting the way people lead their lives, as well as life and death.It is said that globalization is dead, as demonstrated by a steep decline in trade and travel. But the synchronicity of the event being ex…READ FULL ARTICLE