Form a bloc with U$.$S$.$ allies and partners to give the World Health Organization more authority vis$-$vis member states in publishing disease$-$related information and dispatching experts to conduct incountry investigations of outbreaks.China's zero$-$COVID strategy will be extremely costly and highly dangerous: a small omicron outbreak in China could quickly develop into multiple larger outbreaks across the country, intensifying the disruption of global supply chains.The US should collaborate with China when it serves U$.$S$.$ interests, including on disease surveillance and response capacity$-$building, development and distribution of vaccines and therapeutics, supplychain resiliency and security, travel resumption and safety, and biosafety and biosecurity.