{"id":12291,"date":"2020-04-04T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2020-04-03T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T00:15:23","slug":"america-is-still-a-global-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/america-is-still-a-global-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Still a Global Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the post-war global leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the U.S. was the first major nation to issue a travel ban on flights from China, with Donald Trump making that announcement on January 31. That was a bold act. It likely saved thousands endangered by Chinese perfidy and soon became a global model. None of the ban\u2019s loud critics are today demanding it be rescinded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In typically American fashion, as we have seen in crises from Pearl Harbor to 9\/11, after initial shock and unpreparedness, the U.S. economic and scientific juggernaut is kicking into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already the U.S. is transitioning from a long, disastrous reliance on Chinese medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. In ad hoc fashion, companies are gearing up massive production of masks, ventilators, and key anti-viral supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of known deaths from the virus \u2014 for now the only reliable data available \u2014 shows a fatality rate of about 7\u20138 per million people in the United States. That per capita toll is analogous to Germany\u2019s and one of the lowest in the world among larger nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-america-still-global-leader-time-crisis\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A current global myth alleges that America under the Trump administration is not leading the world fight against the coronavirus in its accustomed role as the post-war global leader. Yet the U.S. was the first major nation to issue a travel ban on flights from China, with Donald Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12767,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/target-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":0},"title":"Target: America","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review China\u00a0sounds giddy at the ending of the Trump presidency. 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If one excises the word \u201cTrump,\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11458,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/world-economic-forum-confirms-the-us-is-great-again-under-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":2},"title":"World Economic Forum confirms the US is great again under Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF) 2018\u00a0World Competitiveness Report ranks the United States No. 1 in global competitiveness, up from\u00a0No. 3 in the past few years and its first top ranking in a decade. A high ranking matters.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12243,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/iran-doesnt-understand-maximum-pressure\/","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":3},"title":"Iran Doesn\u2019t Understand \u2018Maximum Pressure\u2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Iran\u00a0has misjudged not only the toxic effects of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d sanctions on the regime but also the entire psychology of U.S. policy toward Iran. The result is that Iranian unemployment is soaring, its gross domestic product is tanking, inflation is raging,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12088,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-foreign-policy-the-popping-point-of-maximum-pressure\/","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":4},"title":"Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy: The Popping Point of Maximum Pressure","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. He has certainly done that from the Middle East to Asia. The U.S. is currently engaged in a three-front, maximum-pressure standoff with China, Iran, and North Korea \u2014 involving everything from tariffs to possible military\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9750,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putin-obama-and-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":12291,"position":5},"title":"Putin, Obama \u2014 and Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review Let\u2019s hope that the era of \u2018lead from behind\u2019 and violated red lines is over. For eight years, the Obama administration misjudged Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, as it misjudged most of the Middle East, China, and the rest of the world as well. 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