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Beijing
The coronavirus is a wake-up call for the world, and trading blame “will only bring greater disaster”, China’s foreign minister said on Monday.
Days after the United States and China lashed out at each other on UN platforms over the coronavirus outbreak, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told a forum in Beijing that individual countries had “turned the solemn international venue of the UN into a performance space for serving their own politics and self-interest”.
China has recently moved to reshape the pandemic narrative away from its early outbreak in Wuhan to a story of the country’s success in stopping the virus spread.
But the US has led nations criticising Beijing for its handling of the epidemic.
China suppressed news of the respiratory disease when it first emerged last year and initial advice played down risks of transmission.
Beijing
The coronavirus is a wake-up call for the world, and trading blame “will only bring greater disaster”, China’s foreign minister said on Monday.
Days after the United States and China lashed out at each other on UN platforms over the coronavirus outbreak, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told a forum in Beijing that individual countries had “turned the solemn international venue of the UN into a performance space for serving their own politics and self-interest”.
China has recently moved to reshape the pandemic narrative away from its early outbreak in Wuhan to a story of the country’s success in stopping the virus spread.
But the US has led nations criticising Beijing for its handling of the epidemic.
China suppressed news of the respiratory disease when it first emerged last year and initial advice played down risks of transmission.
