China News Agency, Beijing, May 14 (Li Jingze) The spokesperson of the US State Department recently condemned "some countries use life-saving medical assistance to advance their own narrow political agendas." The media interpreted this as being aimed at China.
In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stated at a regular press conference on the 14th that the United States is not only polite on human rights issues, but also on vaccine issues.
"The U.S. has repeatedly expressed its commitment to strengthening global democratic values, standing with this one for a while, and standing with that for a while, but I don’t know if the U.S. can ask the U.S. to announce how far the U.S. has provided to which country and which ally How much vaccine assistance?" Hua Chunying pointed out that the United States has a population of 330 million, accounting for 4% of the world's total population, but has snapped up about 2.6 billion doses of vaccines, accounting for a quarter of the total global vaccines.
While countries all over the world are trying to obtain urgently needed vaccines, hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines are idling in warehouses in the United States.
Hua Chunying said that U.S. officials have repeatedly emphasized that on the issue of vaccine distribution, it is necessary to adhere to "America First" and "America First" and restrict the export of vaccine raw materials. This reminds one of Du Fu's poem: "Zhumen wine and meat are smelly, and roads are frozen. Death bone."
Hua Chunying said that on the issue of anti-epidemic and vaccines, the United States has concealed internally, is incapable of responding, shirking blame to the outside world, diverting its attention, and using the epidemic to engage in political maneuvers; ; Either write a bad check, or even bother to write a bad check some time ago, and talked about "America First."
Recently, the US has just made some gestures, and has not taken any action yet, and has assumed the appearance of a "savior".
"If the U.S. really cares about the lives and health of people in other countries, if they stand with them sincerely, and if they really believe in what they say about democracy and human rights, they should be consistent with their words and deeds."
Hua Chunying pointed out that China was the first to put forward and actively implement its commitment to make vaccines as a global public product.
With its huge population base and tight vaccine supply, China has so far provided anti-epidemic material assistance to more than 160 countries and international organizations around the world, and is providing urgently needed vaccines to more than 100 countries and international organizations in different ways. It has also carried out technology transfer and production cooperation with more than ten developing countries such as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Recently, Sinopharm Group’s vaccine has been approved by the World Health Organization for emergency use, and it is actively promoting the supply of vaccines to the "New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Plan".
"China will continue to contribute to the availability and affordability of vaccines in developing countries. We also hope that the United States will abandon political manipulation of vaccines and do more to help and support international anti-epidemic cooperation." Hua Chunying Say. (Finish)