Posted on 03/23/2020 9:02:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
From being ostracised by the international community as the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, China is seeking to reframe itself as a global expert that can help hard-hit regions battle the disease.
Beijing is keen to reposition the virus as a global outbreak and not just a China malaise as it sends testing kits and experts overseas and translates treatment manuals into foreign languages.
The deputy foreign minister said at a press conference Thursday that China had shared its treatment plan with “many countries”.
An expert team has already been sent to Iran, where 92 people have died, along with 5,000 testing kits and 250,000 face masks.
Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China has sent testing equipment to Iran, Pakistan, Japan and some African countries.
“While fighting the epidemic at home, we will continue working with other sides and offer them assistance,” Zhao told a press briefing this week.
As the number of new infections drop in China and swell overseas, the country now worries about importing cases, with 20 reported so far, including from Italy and Iran.
Several cities and provinces including Beijing have imposed a 14-day quarantine on people arriving from hard-hit countries.
A loudspeaker message at Beijing’s airport asks passengers to register on arrival.
And this week Beijing flew 146 citizens back from Iran — a symbolic turn of events since governments were scrambling to fly their citizens out of virus-hit China only a month ago.
A few weeks ago, Chinese officials were putting in calls to try and shore up overseas support as countries imposed travel bans.
Now, outgoing calls are to offer technical advice, sharing China’s experience through video conferences with the European Union and other nations.
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They burn down your house and then offer to put you up in a motel room for a week.
Don’t shake that hand.
It is contaminated.
These heathen, communist SOBs can forget it...won’t work. They are scorned by every nation on the face of the earth. There is NOTHING they could ever offer to compensate for the damages done...nothin’.
As far as I am concerned, they are absolute filth that needs cleansing as soon as possible.
Yeah, kill off the adults in a country then the chinese can come in to ‘help themselves’... I mean help the children who survived...
Duterte already has a love affair with Winnie Xi Pooh. He loves the Communist Chinese more than Filipinos
If China is such a global expert, why, 10 days after they infiltrated the Italian hospitals, is Italy asking for USA help?
A malaise is not death
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