Mekong states work together to fight virus By ZHANG YUNBI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-10 10:05 Share CLOSE A person receives the second dose of Sinovac s COVID-19 vaccine at the Kodang stadium in Bangkok, Thailand June 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Foreign ministers from six countries pledge to deepen local cooperation
Beijing has pledged to continue providing vaccines and medical supplies to the five Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River to help them win a final victory in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Public health funds under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund can be made good use of to support the construction of biosafety protection laboratories and projects for epidemic surveillance and cross-border infectious disease prevention and control, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said when chairing the 6th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers Meeting in Chongqing
Beijing Promotes Political Ideology Through University Programs Geared Toward Belt and Road Countries
Chinese universities are leveraging education programs to promote Beijing’s foreign policy of Belt and Road, as well as Communist Party political ideologies, to students in southeast and central Asia.
The Epoch Times obtained a series of government documents wherein schools detailed their programming for foreign students in applications for central government funding.
The Chinese regime has announced some of these study abroad programs before, but did not provide much detail about the goals and curricula.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as One Belt, One Road, is Beijing’s policy of building infrastructure projects in parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Critics have said the projects place developing countries under massive debt and serve as economic pressure to influence governments into agreeing with Beijing’s agenda.