As it grapples with a worsening Covid-19 situation, Taiwan is also facing a critical shortage of vaccines. And while Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as one of its territories, has repeatedly offered to send vaccines, Taiwan has steadfastly refused to accept its help. Until recently Taiwan had averted a Covid-19 catastrophe and was held up as a model over its management of the health crisis. The “Taiwanese model” of early border.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the origins of COVID-19 in a call with Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday and raised other contentious topics.
China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, expressed Beijing's serious concern to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that some people in the United States were spreading the "absurd story" about the coronavirus escaping from a Wuhan laboratory. Yang, head of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of China's ruling Communist Party, also…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stressed for transparency over the origins of Covid-19 after his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, said that some in America were making "absurd theories" about the coronavirus leaking from a lab in Wuhan.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for cooperation and transparency over the origins of Covid-19 in a call with Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Friday and raised other contentious topics, including China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Yang, China's top diplomat, expressed to Blinken Beijing's serious concern that some people in the United States.