Banks sums up 2020 in China Daily article

January 6, 2021

China Daily

William C. Banks

Public Administration & International Affairs Department

Civil Rights

COVID-19

Government

Political Parties

Race & Ethnicity

United States

China Daily

William C. Banks

Professor Emeritus William C. Banks sums up 2020 in three phrases: COVID-19, racial justice and democracy threatened. The pandemic will mark 2020 as equivalent to 1918, when a similar pandemic killed huge numbers of people, Banks says. "The lessons learned hopefully are preparedness, planning, and leadership," he says. "The U.S. lacked all three this year." Read more in the China Daily article, "Hope jostles with fear in US."