The pandemic has shown a diplomatic system that is dysfunctional. No institution or groups of states was willing or able to take the lead in crafting shared actions to shared problems. The crisis coincided with pressures on diplomacy from deglobalization. This has accelerated a fragmentation of norms and increased willingness to use public diplomacy and digital communication as a point-scoring unidirectional method of self-gratification. The private, painstaking discourse of diplomacy is fading fast. The United Nations needs to urge its members to reassert the values and give new attention to how diplomacy is conducted, building on existing conventions. Meanwhile, tele-diplomacy offers a medium where diplomacy could reassert itself as the core activity that will enable collective global issues to be addressed. The paper examines how such tele-diplomacy might be established.

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COVID、去全球化和外交的衰落：远程外交能否重振外交促进共识的能力？

大流行表明外交系统功能失调。没有任何机构或国家集团愿意或能够带头制定针对共同问题的共同行动。这场危机恰逢去全球化对外交施加的压力。这加速了规范的碎片化，并增加了使用公共外交和数字通信作为自我满足的单向得分方法的意愿。私下、艰苦的外交话语正在迅速消失。联合国需要敦促其成员重申价值观，并在现有公约的基础上重新关注外交的开展方式。同时，远程外交提供了一种媒介，使外交可以重新确立自己作为核心活动的地位，使集体全球问题得以解决。