"Hotels in Madagascar are ready for Chinese tourists!" "I hope that Chinese tourists will come to South Africa for sightseeing and experience the unique charm of the 'rainbow country'." ...... As China's epidemic prevention and control enters a new stage, many countries have shouted to welcome it. However, some people have to go against the mainstream international public opinion and set up obstacles to the global common fight against the epidemic.
Recently, while imposing entry restrictions on tourists from China, the United States claimed that it was willing to provide China with assistance such as vaccines. People have seen this hypocritical duplicitous performance too much. In the past three years, the United States has clearly been the world's first failed country in the fight against the epidemic, but it has worked hard to present itself as a global leader and supporter of the fight against the epidemic. But no matter how whitewashed it is, it is self-defeating in the face of facts.
In the case of vaccines, the United States has always advertised itself as the "world's largest donor of new crown vaccines", but according to the tracking of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a US health research organization, the United States has pledged to donate at least 1.1 billion doses of new crown vaccines to the world by 2023, and only 665.1 million doses have been implemented as of the 5th of this month, just over half. At least 15.1 million doses of vaccine were wasted in the United States between March and September 2021, according to the CDC. The United States would rather hoard expired vaccines than give them to countries that really need them. What is even more egregious is that the United States actually shipped the interim vaccine to Africa to "fulfill" its promise of so-called vaccine donation, and was denounced by African countries as "shameful behavior".
The world no longer expects U.S. assistance to fight the pandemic. In September 2021, when US President Joe Biden vowed to "donate additional vaccines" at a little-received online "anti-epidemic summit", Agathe DeMare Demarre, a researcher at the British Economist Intelligence Unit and a former diplomat, commented: "You know it will never happen." ”
Vaccine aid is thunderous and rainy, and the United States also needs to paint these "little raindrops" with political colors. Statistics from the U.S. State Department show that most of the key countries for U.S. vaccine aid are located around China. Some analysts say that the US government uses vaccine aid as a bargaining chip to coerce and induce China's neighboring countries to join the anti-China alliance, which greatly poisons the atmosphere of global anti-epidemic cooperation.
In addition, the United States continues to disrupt the international anti-epidemic order. In July 2020, the then Trump administration in the United States announced its withdrawal from WHO, weakening the international defense line against the epidemic. In January 2021, the Biden administration announced its application for "re-entry" with the aim of co-opting allies and international organizations to confront China. A farce of "political traceability" has seriously undermined the global anti-epidemic force.
For three years, almost all variants of the new coronavirus and their branches have been circulating in the United States. However, the US government has passively fought the epidemic and allowed the virus to spread around the world, posing a huge threat to the lives and health of people around the world. According to statistics, from April 2020 to March 2021, US citizens traveled abroad a total of 23.195 million times, with destinations all over the world. At the same time, the United States ignored international morality and repatriated illegal immigrants on a large scale, causing the epidemic situation to intensify in developing countries such as Latin America. All this happened at a time when the new crown virus was virulent and fatal, and the United States was unshirkable responsible for the global spread of the epidemic.
The federal government pressured states to manipulate epidemic data, fired scientists who "refused to tamper with data", virus tests had to wait more than a dozen days for results, and cross-state cases could not be traced... Over the past three years, the lack of transparency in the US epidemic data has seriously affected the global anti-epidemic process. In March 2020, Redfield, then director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted that some of the deaths during the flu season that began in September 2019 were actually infected with the new coronavirus. As for the number of infected people, the United States has not released data so far.
At present, the new strain XBB.1.5 has caused more than 40% of infection cases in the United States, becoming the fastest rising strain in the United States. This time, the United States should not try to muddle through, but should share epidemic information and data with WHO and the international community in a timely and transparent manner, and take practical and effective measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
In contrast, China has not only effectively protected the lives and health of more than 1.4 billion people in the past three years, but also responsibly cooperated with the international community in fighting the epidemic. Over the past three years, China has conducted more than 60 technical exchanges with WHO, including four in the last month. China also continues to share viral genetic data on new cases of infection through the Global Influenza Sharing Database. So far, China has provided hundreds of billions of anti-epidemic materials to 153 countries and 15 international organizations, and more than 2.2 billion doses of new crown vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations. Alexandre Figueiredo, director of the Global South Institute in Brazil, commented that China is the backbone of the global anti-epidemic action.
People around the world have a rod in their hearts who are the contributors and destroyers of the global fight against the pandemic. People will not forget the suffering that the United States has made the world suffer, and they will also see clearly that it is engaged in "fake charity and real hegemony." The United States, which runs counter to the world, is the biggest obstacle to the global common fight against the epidemic.
(International Commentator)