Chinanews.com, Beijing, August 17th, title: What kind of America does global public health cooperation need?
Author Zhang Guo
The new crown pneumonia epidemic that has swept the world has had a profound impact on the world's economic and social development model.
While fighting the epidemic, people are also increasingly aware of the importance of global public health cooperation.
However, it is obvious to all that the international community has to ponder this question: What kind of America is needed for global public health cooperation because of the United States’ inability to fight the epidemic and dumping the origin of the virus to other countries at will?
As the world's first failed country in the fight against the epidemic, the United States ranks first in the world in terms of cumulative confirmed cases and deaths.
Tang Bei, an associate researcher at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Shanghai International Studies University, pointed out at a related conference a few days ago that the failure of the United States to fight the epidemic has a deeper background, that is, its health and safety concepts are quite limited and narrow.
For example, the United States has a deep-rooted view: threats mainly come from overseas, and even mainly from developing countries.
Therefore, in the design of the entire health system, the United States always sets a lot of requirements on developing countries one-sidedly, and has to supervise and "name and criticize" it. However, it has always treated its own internal problems lightly.
This kind of background has also led to the United States' international style of being "strictly disciplined and lenient to itself".
Of course, there are deeper factors in this style, involving the nature of the American political and economic system.
Tang Bei analyzed that the United States has two types of hegemony: one is the hegemony of domestic big capital over the entire society; the other is the hegemony of the United States over the entire international society.
The power of capital hegemony dominates the domestic public opinion field in the United States and attempts to dominate the international public opinion field. Therefore, on the issue of the traceability of the new crown virus, whether there is evidence or not, it is going to throw the pot away to China.
Disasters are drawn, and the instigator put on the coat of "justice".
Earlier this year, US President Biden signed an executive order to decide to return to the WHO.
However, in the eyes of some American politicians, the WHO is still just a pawn: if it is of value to oneself, just sit down and have a meeting;
For example, the United States can disregard WHO's work procedures for its own calculations, attempt to overthrow and distort the conclusions of the China-WHO joint research report, and secretly use various methods to coerce the WHO Secretariat and international experts. Put pressure on China to use the "presumption of guilt" and "intrusive investigation" set against China.
Obviously, this is not the reasonable attitude that international public health cooperation should have.
Biden chanted "America is back!" In the final analysis, people are happy to see an America that is responsible both internally and externally, an America that does not beggar-thy-neighbors, and an America that upholds the common values of mankind.
Unfortunately, only on the issue of the traceability of the new crown virus, the United States we see is very different from this.
The new crown pneumonia epidemic is a global disaster, and the success or failure of any country's fight against the epidemic is definitely not isolated.
Global public health cooperation is related to human well-being. It should not and cannot become a cash machine for American capital, let alone a battleground for American politicians.
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