The new U.S. government under the leadership of Joe Biden will implement different domestic and foreign policies. China hopes that it will abandon the idea of decoupling, so that both sides can promote cooperation and exchanges, and work together more closely on the global stage.
Science as a discipline transcends artificial national borders and hence scientific collaboration serves as a unifying force, irrespective of national politics.
The assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientist will make the prospects of Iran nuclear issue more complicated as it might make global efforts to restart the multilateral approach to the nuclear issue more difficult.
We must end the social injustices that put people at risk of contracting HIV. And we must fight for the right to health and ensure universal access. Barriers such as up-front user fees that lock people out of health must come down.
China’s relationships with Japan and South Korea matter enormously on an economic and strategic level especially in a global climate of uncertainty owing to geopolitics and COVID-19 disruption.
Patients have nationalities, but the virus respects no borders.
This would simply benefit not only the U.S., but also the entire world. From a purely American perspective, the international institutions that the U.S. helped build allow the country to push its own interests. The U.S. ignores the world at its own peril.
Governments of emerging economies must build more hospitals, train more doctors, and invest more in health care systems.
China is building resilience and is expanding its innovative production and outreach. This is how it will take an important part of the global industrial and supply chains not only through manufacturing but also via technological advancement and science progress.
China’s continued opening-up along with its vigorous international circulation may play a stabilizing role within the global economy. Meanwhile, China’s gigantic domestic demand, while being released in its domestic circulation, will lead to its sustained economic growth and further opening-up.
China remains committed to globalization, which is the best development path for the world, and uses every opportunity for internationalization, but in the new situation its domestic economy will dominate.
I was in China from January through March. I can say that, from firsthand experience, the Chinese people made great sacrifices to choke off an increase in the spread of the virus.
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