2021-04-27 06:06:09 GMT2021-04-27 14:06:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) China has offered to help india fight COVID-19 after the United States snubbed India s request for the necessary raw materials to produce vaccines, which is, as a scholar has said, an opportunity for India and China to mend their ties, reported the South China Morning Post. India s supplies of raw materials for vaccine production from the U.S. and Europe are currently restricted. It desperately needs other countries help with the pandemic, said Niu Haibin, deputy director of the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.
April 25, 2021
A funeral service is held in New Delhi as the number of cases in the country continues to rise.
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CHINA - China has offered to help India battle its Covid-19 outbreak after the United States declined a request to lift a ban on exporting vaccine raw materials.
The olive branch from the Chinese foreign ministry comes as tensions between the two nations continue to run high along their disputed border .
“The Chinese government and people firmly support the Indian government and people in fighting the coronavirus. China is ready to provide support and help according to India’s needs, and is in communication with the Indian side on this,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday.
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By Cai Liang Published: Apr 15, 2021 09:20 AM
Combo photo shows U.S. President Joe Biden (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on different occasions. (Xinhua)Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is scheduled to meet with US President Joe Biden on Friday. According to Japanese media, the two leaders plan to affirm the importance of stability in the Taiwan Straits in a joint statement after the summit. Government sources also told the media that Japan and the US have agreed to closely cooperate in the event of a military clash between the mainland and Taiwan.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Japanese State Minister of Defense, Yasuhide Nakayama, said that as the US sent former senior State Department officials, like Richard Armitage, to Taiwan and decided to ease contact restrictions with the island, the Japanese government should carefully examine the same content and consider the same policy to be implemented as soon as possible.