Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin s Regular Press Conference on March 3, 2021
2021/03/03
Bloomberg: According to Gallup poll results, favorable views of China in the United States hit a new low. Does the foreign ministry have any comment on the negative views of China?
Wang Wenbin: I ve noticed that lately there have been many polls on China-US relations. Some results suggest that a considerable number of respondents in the United States believe people-to-people and cultural exchanges with China should be maintained and 72 percent support active U.S. cooperation with China on climate governance.
I d like to stress that the Chinese and American people always have friendly sentiments towards each other. This underpinning friendship brings vitality to bilateral relations. However, the previous U.S. administration and anti-China forces in the United States, driven by ideological bias and selfish political gains, flagrantly smeared and maligned China, provoked confrontation an
âThe China-Australia events have brought home to us that this is something that Australia is increasingly going to face: economic coercion by larger powers that will hurt our economy and hurt society,â he said in an interview.
Wilsonâs report, to be launched at the Australian National Universityâs national security college on Tuesday evening, argues the government needs to become much more willing to litigate trade disputes, both through the World Trade Organization processes and through mechanisms in Australiaâs 15 free trade agreements.
âIn an Australia-China fight we lose, in an Australia-US fight we lose â but a WTO panel ruling against China is one we can win,â Wilson said.
Australia is badly exposed to the rising trend of “coercive trade warfare”, with both China and the US using economic levers to pursue their great power rivalry, a leading analyst says. After China targeted a range of Australian export sectors as the relationship soured last year, and given the Trump administration also pursued “coercive” trade practices, a new report calls on the Australian government to adapt its policies and add to its.
India continues its streak of low single-day cases
Sun Online Desk
30th January, 2021 02:34:01
With 11,666 new Covid-19 cases getting reported in the last 24 hours on Thursday, India has continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,01,193, health officials said.
In January this year, the daily deaths have been reported below the 200-mark in the country.
For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 new infections daily.
The nationwide immunisation drive began on January 16 after the approval of Covaxin and Covishield, the two Covid vaccines.
As many as 3,55,979 beneficiaries have received the first dose of Covid vaccine in the first phase so far.