... 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 the declaration “highly likely,” which is how they accuse us of many things. I think the same applies to any situation where a country is being blamed for serious actions that affect lives but no facts are given. This attitude cannot be ...
... important to Russia’s status and self-image, Moscow must reduce its dependence on China by fostering its relations with other large economic and financial players: primarily European countries, India, and Japan.
Although the crisis precipitated by the new coronavirus pandemic is still in its very early stages, it is clear that it has vastly accelerated the ongoing processes around the world. The most consequential is the intensification of Sino-American rivalry and the emergence of new global bipolarity....
... military and political standoff between China and the United States is largely focused in the South China and East China seas, thousands of miles away from Russia. Russia does not have any interests in that region. Yet it is precisely here that China's most ... ... 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,...
... inmates are infected, some of them have deceased. There is hardly any medical assistance for the convicted, neither there is coronavirus testing. The prisoners are preponderantly left without individual sanitary equipment and facial masks due to a shortage ... ... the Russian citizens. Their life and health are under the threat.
Anatoly I.Antonov
Source:
Facebook Embassy of Russia in the USA
... University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, exclusively for
valdaiclub.com
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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.... ... US Army could have hypothetically brought the virus into China, or that theres the possibly it was imported.
The line of accusation against the PRC is based on the selective criticism of events from the sequence of actions and decisions taken by the ...
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 and processes. The speed of the confrontation ...
This might be what some call a black swan moment — though it might be too soon to tell
In what seems like a blink of the eye, the coronavirus has uprooted and deracinated nearly every sense of normalcy that could possibly exist. A pathogen that up until a few weeks ago was both out of sight and out of mind is now quite the opposite. It’s evolved into a global pandemic that knows ...
... 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 ...
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with the International Life magazine, April 17, 2020
Question:
Mr Ryabkov, let’s start with the most urgent issue – the coronavirus. Today, the United States is the anti-rating leader in the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has been complaining about the actions of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and decided to suspend its ...
... government is a normal practice. The organization would have acted in a similar manner with respect to any other country.
Third, accusations against WHO unwittingly suggest thoughts of trying to find a “scapegoat” against the background of the difficult ... ... Russia will not solve the problems of US health care and is unlikely to help in the fight against the disease.
Andrey Kortunov:
Coronavirus: A New Bug or Feature of World Politics?
The attack on the WHO fits into Trump’s general doctrine of the primacy ...
