U.S. society knows how to help China amid epidemic better than American politicians
By Wu Chuping
Global countries are lending a helping
hand to China amid the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Under the coordination of the U.S.
Department of State, 16 tons of medical and protective materials have been
donated to epicenter Hubei by American charity organizations, including 380,000
pieces of N95 masks, 29,000 pairs of medical gloves and 6,000 protective
suites.
However, the up to $100 million of
assistance for China and other affected countries promised by the department is
still not in position.
Compared with the U.S. government, the
U.S. businesses, friendly organizations and civil society organizations are
acting way more actively. Over 100 member enterprises of the American Chamber
of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China (AmCham China) have donated cash
and supplies totaling 500 million yuan ($71 million) for China.
According to statistics from the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the U.S. companies have offered the most
assistance to China among their global peers, and their donation is much higher
than that made by companies from other countries.
The U.S. non-governmental humanitarian
aid organization MedShare, the Coca-Cola Foundation and
United Parcel Service (UPS) jointly donated 1.8 million pieces of masks and
80,000 protective suits to China, which marks the largest-ever single donation
of medical supplies made by the U.S. society.
The 200,000 pieces of masks, 27,500
pairs of medical gloves, and 4,000 protective suites from the first batch of
donation by DirectRelief, one of the “10 Best Charities Everyone’s Heard Of” in
the U.S., have also arrived at Wuhan Union Hospital recently.
Besides, the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation founded by Bill Gates announced that it would immediately commit up
to $100 million for the global response to the 2019 novel coronavirus, and $5
million of the fund has been delivered to relevant Chinese organizations.
The National Committee on United
States–China Relations, U.S.-China Business Council and George H. W. Bush
Foundation for U.S.-China Relations have collected medical supplies, including
masks for China, and these supplies were sent to China by the charter flight of
FedEx free of charge. In addition, the NBA has also donated 5 million yuan to
China.
Walter Ian Lipkin, professor of
epidemiology at Columbia University, known as “virus hunter”, came to China at
the first opportunity and worked with Chinese academicians including Zhong
Nanshan to study the virus, saying he’s willing to offer new diagnostic
reagents free of charge.
Many people and experts in the U.S.
also offered new vaccines and drugs that might help, and a significant number
of U.S. citizens expressed their sympathy and support for China through the Chinese
embassy and consulates in the U.S.
The overseas Chinese and Chinese
students in the U.S. played their parts, too. According to Chinese Consulate
General in New York, organizations, overseas Chinese and Chinese students in
its consulate region have donated nearly $40 million in cash and materials to
China, including 7 million pieces of masks and 217,000 protective suits.
The epidemic is like a mirror that
reflects the friendship between the Chinese and Americans. However, it has also
presented the nature of some U.S. politicians who smell blood and favor a chaotic world.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
rather than offering constructive ideas for China to better cope with the
epidemic, has been slandering China and trying to alienating the Chinese people
from the Communist Party of China.
Wilbur Ross, the U.S. Secretary of
Commerce even remarked that the epidemic in China would “help to accelerate”
the return of jobs to the U.S., which is totally inhumane.
Senator Tom Cotton, who has always been
an anti-China enthusiast, said blatantly that the coronavirus might have been
created in a Chinese laboratory for biological warfare.
The Wall Street Journal, titled the
headline of one of its articles “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia”. Such act
is nothing but indulgence of racism.
Even when China has achieved initial
progress of epidemic control, Senator Marco Rubio was still turning a blind eye
to the facts, making nonsense that the data released by China were not real and
the epidemic was not contained.
Fortunately, the Chinese people are
from a nation that values friendship and has a clear-cut stand on what to love
and what to hate. From the bottom of our heart, we appreciate and will always
remember our sincere friendship with the American people. The epidemic knows no
border, and the cooperation between China and the U.S. amid the epidemic should
be something that highlights their bilateral relationship, rather than breaking
it.
When the two peoples are joining hands
to combat the novel coronavirus, they should also eliminate the “virus” that
hinders the development of China-U.S. ties, fans up hatred between the two
countries, and instigates confrontation between the two peoples.
Source: People’s Daily
U.S. society knows how to help China amid epidemic better than American politicians
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