ISLAMABAD — China has set a practical example of protecting human rights by safeguarding its people’s lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistani analyst Musarrat Amin said.
“The Chinese leadership demonstrated acumen by imposing stringent lockdowns immediately after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan to protect its people from contracting the disease, without taking the economic losses caused by the massive lockdowns into consideration,” Amin, who works as an assistant professor in Fatima Jinnah Women University told Xinhua.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil will continue to expand the benefits of their economic complementarity with China, the country’s Vice President Hamilton Mourao has said, calling for more investment and cooperation in strategic sectors.
“For more than 10 years, China has been our largest trading partner and an important source of investment for Brazil, especially in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Brazil, in turn, is a stable and reliable supplier of safe food for China,” he said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
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LONDON — Although tensions between the United States and China in technology industry continue to grow, “Wall Street and China are getting closer,” The Economist magazine reported.
BlackRock, an American global asset management company, Vanguard, an American registered investment advisor, and U.S. leading investment bank and financial services company JPMorgan Chase have been continuously expanding businesses in China, wrote an article published by the magazine.
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GENEVA — China’s achievements against COVID-19 have made the world more confident in the prospects of fighting the pandemic, a senior official of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
“In general, China’s action against the COVID-19 epidemic has achieved phased victory so far!” Ren Minghui, assistant director-general for Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases of the WHO, said in a recent interview with Xinhua.