... ready to take part in this.
But there is no reason to talk about a ban on foreign travel.
Question:
Let’s finish the tourism questions and move on to bigger foreign policy issues. On which side is Russia and why in the conflict between the US and China over possible contradictory data on the emergence and spread of the coronavirus?
Sergey Lavrov:
We are on the side of justice and common sense. Justice implies that it is wrong to accuse someone of something without the facts. I have given examples of the attitude of our Western partners who base their accusations on ...
... Washington now treats China rather than Russia as its main rival. They should not be. The hostility of the U.S. political elite toward Russia is not going anywhere and is not decreasing. Any idea of a reset in the face of a common enemy—this time, the coronavirus—is doomed to disappointment.
Managing an Equal Relationship With a Much Bigger Partner
Closer relations with China have strengthened Russia’s geopolitical and geoeconomic positions at a time when Moscow’s relations with the West have deteriorated. For Russia, China has become an essential economic, financial, and technological partner. Further cultivating ...
... Beijing and Washington is not due to the irreconcilability of ideologies, but rather to their geopolitical incompatibility, and this is simply not enough for the confrontation to transmute into a bloc-based rivalry.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Battle of “Coronavirus Narratives”: Three Lines of Defence Against China
Yet many are still enticed by discussions of a new bipolarity, and there are many reasons why. Let us outline a few of them. First, the world order that existed during the Cold War was relatively simple. Second, people are motivated by anti-Chinese ...
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The politicisation of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, which has gained ferocity in recent weeks, has led to a sad but logical outcome the search for the guilty.... ... foreigners, hostile intelligence agencies, as well as the insidious doctors and heartless politicians who solve their problems.
China itself has historically often served as the birthplace of pandemics this was facilitated by the features of its fauna and ...
... deaths from COVID-19 now is large-scale external assistance. In a situation where all the major players are busy solving internal problems caused by the virus, the only country that can provide Cairo with the necessary financial support and put tests for coronavirus is China. Otherwise, Egypt could become the next Bergamo.
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The speed of the confrontation is accelerating, and it will be extremely difficult to soften its inertia
COVID-19 is becoming a key element in the US-China relations. The United States directly calls China the cause of the novel coronavirus pandemic. A month ago, such accusations seemed like void political rhetoric. Today they are acquiring a qualitatively different meaning. They have formed a deep and irreversible funnel, which draws into itself an ever wider range of problems ...
... attention should be paid to the pandemic itself and issues related to it at SCO and BRICS platforms, taking into account Russian Chairmanship in associations in 2020.
Negative trends are also associated with the aggravation of the information war against China: the accusations of the spread of coronavirus become a defining characteristic in China—the U.S. relations, and this trend will have long-term consequences. Experts emphasized the importance of the coordinated efforts of the Russian and Chinese sides to counter misinformation and ensure ...
... officials, have labelled Covid-19 the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan Virus” . One White House official is reported to have also labelled the virus the “Kung Flu”. The Republican senator Tom Cotton questioned the idea of whether or not the coronavirus could be a China-crafted bioweapon without providing evidence. Correspondingly, in China, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, Zhao Lijian, tweeted that “it might be the US army” that carried the virus to Wuhan, giving an official yet unofficial nod to a conspiracy ...
... including a number of European states – during its darkest hours. And now that the country has got the spread of the virus under control, it is offering assistance to Europe, even though there is still a shortage of goods at home.
Andrey Kortunov:
Coronavirus: A New Bug or Feature of World Politics?
China is in favour of strengthening coordination and interaction with partner countries and promoting multilateralism and the principles of a rule-based international order. It calls for the global community to come together to overcome serious challenges....
... Timofeev:
The Price of Sanctions is Human Lives
It is worth mentioning here that China currently chairs the Security Council. This will make it more difficult for the Americans to get their way in terms of the language used in a resolution on the coronavirus. However, that does not mean that China's preferred wording will be any easier to adopt either. We should also add that the Security Council has been meeting via conference calls since mid-March, which inevitably makes its work less effective.
It would be fair to say that the inability ...
