The more China succeeds the more criticism from the west

Published: January 24,2023

By staff writer 

For everything good that China does, the west finds a line of attack to show that either nothing was achieved or what was achieved is against the interests of other countries and therefore, China should be blamed and isolated. This is the ill-advised strategy of the west to counter the rise of China and trying to pull it down. 

Today, western media is creating fear among all over the world that COVID-19 deaths and infections in China have gone out of hand and as a result, since China has opened up for its citizens to travel out of the country, they should not be allowed entry in western countries. 

Western media again takes China’s recent optimization of epidemic control as a result of pressurized policy change. However, the policy change was guided by science so as to maximize the protection of people’s life safety and health, but also mitigate the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.

There is no country in the world that has probably done much more to protect its citizens and support other countries to acquire the COVID-19 vaccines as China has done. This implies therefore, that China does not only protect the lives of its citizens but on humanitarian grounds bears the responsibilities to protect other people globally that are in need. China’s approach is guided by the philosophy of a shared future for mankind. 

China was the first country to pledge to make COVID-19 vaccines a global public good. At the early stage of the outbreak of the pandemic, President Xi Jinping proposed that COVID-19 vaccines should be made a global public good, and they should benefit, in particular, developing countries. At a time when global vaccine supplies were tightest, China overcame its own difficulties to take the lead in providing vaccines to developing countries in dire need. China has provided over 1.8 billion doses of vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations, of which about 180 million were provided to Africa, covering almost all African countries.

China’s fight against COVID-19 at home has been unmatched. By the end of 2022, 92.9 percent of the Chinese population had been fully vaccinated, including more than 90 percent of people aged above 60. Given the high vaccination rate, weakened pathogenicity of the virus and availability of effective treatment options including traditional Chinese medicine, China had adapted its COVID-19 response policy to the new conditions.

The hyping up of COVID situation in China and imposing restrictions on Chinese travellers by western countries is biased and discriminatory when the whole world has opened up and people travel freely irrespective of COVID cases in their countries. These politically motivated games by the west to discredit China have not worked for a long time and will continue to fail now and in the future.