By Jerome A. Cohen
In light of the ongoing global crisis, I’ve joined an important letter initiated by Kurt Campbell, Steve Hadley, Susan Shirk, and Orville Schell: Saving Lives in America, China, and Around the World.
Like similar statements this letter is inevitably the product of compromises amid time pressures, but I hope it is widely read given its significance and urgency. It should also make interesting material, especially in comparison with yesterday’s statement by 100 Chinese scholars, for what the French call an explication de texte.