Time. How to handle on the lives in times of the koran a pandemic d. W. Reporter keep your job just like everyone else and shes looking for answers and thankfully with the help of many expect a few other what. Is the thank you bruce is not life as we know it. In this together our new web series. Its late much in serbia and a plane has just landed at belgrade airport. This is no ordinary flight on board a medical teams and tons of equipment to help fight the coronavirus they flown in from china and they get a heros welcome the president himself is here. Michael. So be it isnt the only place welcoming to liveries like these. Chinese supplies of also been arriving in hungary as well as the Czech Republic slovakia austria greece spain canada even the u. S. Has been turning to china for supplies. So whats going on just a few weeks ago china was the epicenter of the coronavirus trice is the place where the outbreak began so its suddenly gone from victim to savior well serbias Prime Minister seems to think so to say listen to this interview that she gave just recently with Chinese Television when we identified the firth identified the 1st case of corona virus in serbia the fear of the peoples republic of china was the 1st to approach offer help and the support of china saves lives in serbia. I really i mean the through. The procedure through to erect a more human to this steel friendship between china and serbia are once all this is behind us after all the negative coverage associated with the outbreak in china that kind of praise is a stunning turnaround and it puts beijing back on track in a much longer term project of building up its image and its influence around the world that china has been working quite hard even before the pandemic to improve its reputation globally and undercut the reputation of democracies and demonstrate that shrine is system of governance is more effective now that process looks set to accelerate to intensify i do see this as. Something that. Well history. Where is the rise in china and how its going to impact on the world i do see this violence as a moment when decisions need to be laid in choices choices in europe about whose side are you on were going to look at 2 Big Questions is china really coming to the rescue and what are those choices that the west is going to have to face. Back in Central Europe another of those chinese shipments is coming into land this time in hungary. Prime minister for talk or bunnies here the plane is packed with medical supplies to help fight the outbreak and or inspected eagerly following events in budapest hes d. W. Funny fancher. With that or one can portray himself as a strong leader with a method im here for you i will protect you with the help from china 60 tons of supplies arrived last week from china and more is through arrive. Chinas interest in hungary is nothing new or bomb hosted premier league could china in budapest 2 years ago hailing major investment in the country. Its part of a Bigger Picture of chinese outreach in central and Eastern Europe agreed the proven controversial. About 22. 00 out. China came up with this idea of creating something that they called back then 16 plus one which was 16th century european Central EasternEuropean Countries from the baltics to the balkans china were directly trade directly talking directly. Interact with usenet shits and definitely theres real concern brussels that this is in fact an attempt to kind of weaken the European Union and to deal with countries individually or in smaller blocs for his part Hungarys Viktor Orban seems more than willing to sidestep the European Union hes just provoked outrage by adopting sweeping open ended powers to rule by decree in response to the coronavirus its something that seems more reminiscent of chinas form of government in 2015 he declared that instead of following in the footsteps of liberal western democracies hungary should rather take a look at the liberal Success Stories like china therefore its not a secret but rather reale politics that hungary sees china as a desirable partner as for the Chinese Government itself its reacted angrily to western critics suggesting that it supplies of medical equipment anything other than outro istic. And there not having to miss you want to whats this all dont lose your mom didnt that was your mom. Pretty used top diplomat has been voicing some doubts about chinas motives which was that burrell has warned about what he referred to as a battle of narratives in an online post he wrote china is aggressively pushing the message that unlike the u. S. Its a responsible and reliable partner you must be aware that theres a geo political component including a struggle for influence through spinning and the politics of generosity armed with facts we need to defend europe against its attractors the implication was clear dont take chinese help necessarily at face value and watch out for attempts to undermine facts. While chinas state media promote a chinese way in dealing with the virus investigative journalists of the nonprofit outlet pro publica reported finding thousands of fake social media accounts pushing pro china narratives and senior figures in beijing have been spreading explosive claims like suggesting the us army brought the virus to china weve had a pharmacist folks now on call charlie and who has put out conspiracy theories as iris was what did i know by u. S. Soldiers at the military gains in in china there in the autumn and then he started to see that perhaps it was you know caused by italian weve always seen just information from china but we very rarely seen Senior Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. Basically fabricating lie despite that many european leaders are going out of their way to thank china for its support in fighting the outbreak right up to the president of the European Commission herself we are grateful for support from china. The Prime Minister announced that china is ready to provide 2000095 masks 2000000 surgical masks and 50000 testing kits these can be shipped to europe immediately this support is highly valued and we are grateful for it those warm words are even more remarkable when you think about the context theres been a lot of tension recently within europe about individual countries not doing enough to help each other out the Commission President also spoke about that recently and this time her language was not warm at all. When europe really needed to be there for each other too many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed an all for one spirit too many initially gave only for me response. Since then there have been more examples of e. U. Countries helping each other out for instance with German Air Force planes being kitted out early to tell you patience. But theres major uncertainty about how far e. U. Member countries are prepared to pull together to meet the enormous costs of the crisis just one of many challenges to european unity. It needs to be much more. United and carry among and between the states and it needs to really pull out the stops to help other countries its starting to do that a bit better very slow start the things have picked up absolutely. Need to go more war in that direction needs to take responsibility for its own medical situation needs to create much better systems to out europe it seems clear that the less europe pulls together the more theres an opening for china to come and fill a gap thats also been left in part by america. Under President Trump the u. S. Is becoming less interested in old alliances and more inclined to go to america 1st its come at a cost to relations with europe. Obviously we have a lot of issues that are character contentious between the u. S. And our european allies. Certainly that creates an opening for china i think many chinese see the trumpet ministration is the gift that keeps on giving it has really created the the potential in the opportunity for china to step up so what happens next a lot depends on whether donald trump wins reelection in november a defeat by joe biden would likely mean a return to stronger ties with traditional allies. If you have the honor of speaking to all of you for will go for the power suit towards alliances i think would be more cooperative we would be looking to work with our allies to push back against china in some areas meanwhile more and more voices from both left and right in america a calling for the u. S. To decouple its economy from china to reduce the enormous amount of ties that have built up over the last couple of decades. Thats already happening to an extent with american moves to cut the chinese telecoms giant while away out of its future mobile Data Networks but it could now go further. The United States now it was recognized that weve become too dependent on churning out for example the maker of medicines so you will see this sort of decoupling in limited sectors but not a simple relation the u. S. And china use a car back here in europe trying to analyst d. D. Custom tattoo sees more profound choices ahead and do you see this as. Tipping the. World history wish the rise of china and how its going to impact on the world i do see this virus as a moment when decisions need to be made in choices choices. About. We should be asking ourselves hard questions about globalization about how safe. How safe is globalization under conditions of really enormous new divergent political systems perhaps globalization is something that only works when theres political agreements when theres agreement about. How society should be. For now of course mostly to surround the world are too busy Fire Fighting the virus to take time for such peak. 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