Fairer, healthier world needs no vaccine nationalism
World Health Day 2021 is being commemorated globally on Wednesday, under the theme of building a fairer, healthier world. In contrast to its previous themes, which typically focused on some specific types of disease or health threats like diabetes and food safety, this year the World Health Organization chose a more general and abstract theme for the yearly event. It s not that the WHO has run out of choices of disease types, or the world was free from specific health threats; it is just the still-ravaging pandemic has attested to the fact that unfairness and inequality, especially in addressing such global challenges as COVID-19, are actually more lethal than any specific disease.
Xinhua Headlines: Fairer, healthier world needs no vaccine nationalism
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Xiplomacy: Xi s keynote speech at China-CEEC Summit draws wide attention
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- I believe that other member states will work with China to further safeguard multilateralism, promote free trade, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Europe . as well as build an open world economy, said Piotr Gadzinowski, editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Trybuna.
- Cooperation with China is needed for all European Union countries, said Milan Bandic, mayor of Croatia s capital Zagreb.
Chinese President Xi Jinping s keynote speech at the Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) has charted the course for both sides to achieve common development and mutual benefit at a higher level and injected impetus into the joint efforts to build a community with a shared future for mankind, experts have said.