US optimistically awaits results of China’s plan to control COVID-19

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenaffirmed on Monday that his country has an interest in China control the pandemic COVID-19as Beijing eases restrictions after historic protests.

“We want China to control (the pandemic of) the COVID-19. It’s in our interest.” said blinken in an event organized by the economic daily Wall Street Journal.

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“We are interested in the Chinese people first and foremost, but also in the people of the whole world, that they succeed,” added.

stressed “the dramatic consequence” world of the slowdowns that have affected the Chinese economy, the second in the world behind the United States, caused by the drastic restrictions that Beijing imposed to respond to the pandemic.

China In recent months, it has faced the largest protest movement since the bloody repression of democratic mobilizations in 1989.

In the background there is also deep discontent with the political system, as demonstrated by the slogans of the protesters, with some demanding that the president Xi Jinping and the Communist Party leave power.

Chinese leaders responded quickly to disperse the protests, but also eased the zero policy. covid which they had vehemently defended.

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Some experts warn of risks associated with an eventual reopening due to deficiencies in the vaccination system in China, as the authorities’ priority focused more on isolating those infected.

The covid, which has killed more than six million people worldwide, was first detected in China at the end of 2019.

Source: Elcomercio

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