Instead of waging the blame game, world leaders must set aside ideology and geopolitics, to jointly develop an effective vaccine and to strengthen the global public health system. In an interconnected world, no country is an island. Humankind shares a common destiny!
When the international community declares victory against the new coronavirus, it will certainly be a win of the nations that compose it, but also the triumph of multilateralism and of the spirit of transnational solidarity that it embodies.
Casting Chinese journalists out of US is just another kind of political harassment, while China open its door to the world, US should be doing the same.
FED rate cut shows little help to the fast spread of COVID-19 in US and even mislead the stock market. US President Trump’s effort may be a disaster to US future economy.
These new restrictions are no doubt aimed at the same time at controlling the narrative. Presently, anyone who wants to say a kind word about China is immediately suspect.
With this war against the Chinese media and, as a matter of fact, against 60 Chinese citizens, the US is on the path of a dangerous regression that needs to be condemned and stopped.
The COVID-19 epidemic is global crisis, one which requires solutions based on international cooperation on the multinational, national, and local level, based on the free flow of scientific information among these actors.
An action taken now will be much more economical for the international community than mobilizing resources after trying to wait out the crisis. A quick and generous multinational response is immediately needed as we still have a chance of defeating this scourge.
Bearing the ‘Wuhan Spirit’ in mind may be the best considering the current stage between US and India.
There is no doubt that China with its 1.4 billion people will again conquer the “people’s war”, (coronavirus crisis) with firm resolve.
Such an unfounded classification introduces a much broader and fundamental issue, not a rivalry in trade or technology, but a competition for what can be called cognitive security.
China has evidently demonstrated the strength of its political system in tackling national crisis, this time, during the sudden outbreak of a contagious virus. The swift actions taken and enormous sacrifices made by the country, and the unremitting efforts and tenacity of its people in fighting the spread of the virus deserve the respect of the world.
