By Global Times
November 29, 2022:
Information Clearing House
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Times" -
Whatever China does in its battle against
COVID-19 is wrong under the prism of Western
media. Those who once denounced China's strict
approach to epidemic prevention and control are
now hyping up the consequences of opening up.
Headlines such as "The disastrous implications
of lifting Zero-COVID in China" are flooding on
Western social media platforms. Bloomberg is
more dramatic, articulating that "a full
reopening could see 5.8 million in ICU" in China
and that "there's no way an uncontrolled wave of
infections can be managed."
It is hard to believe that Bloomberg
published such a prognosis with a straight face.
China's 20 measures, recently fine-tuned and
adjusted to optimize the epidemic response, do
not mean loosening prevention and control
against the virus, less a lift of COVID-19
restrictions or "lying flat" in the COVID-19
fight. It aims at making the response to the
virus more targeted and science-based,
maximizing the protection of people's safety and
health, and minimizing the impact of the
epidemic on economic and social development.
However, some Western forces tend to write off
all the efforts and achievements China has made
to rein in the virus, while putting the
shortcomings under scrutiny to provoke
confrontation and stir up chaos on Chinese soil.
For them, it would be best if China's
development slows down or stagnates.
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Due to ideological differences, it has become
almost an instinct of Western countries and
media to criticize communist governments with an
aim to subvert the latter with color
revolutions, Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan
University, told the Global Times. Shen added
that in the major power game, the objective
facts on differences between China and the West,
when it comes to handling the virus, have driven
the West into a state of anxiety. They are thus
eager to capture, exaggerate and point fingers
at all negative issues they could find in
China's epidemic control procedures.
This is like how Washington fans the flames in
the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Some forces in the
US and other Western countries can't accept that
China has the capacity to adjust its policy in a
more flexible way and contain the virus,
observers noted.
Let the data speak for itself. As of press time,
China's total COVID-19 death toll is a little
more than 5,200. But in the US, 1.09 million
people's lives have been claimed by the virus.
British scholar John Ross recently made a
comparison. He pointed out that China's
population is 4.3 times that of the US. In order
to see what would be the impact of the US
COVID-19 policy in China, one should multiply US
statistics by 4.3. It means if China had the
same death rate as that of the US, 4.7 million
Chinese people would be dead, said Ross.
In other words, it is Chinese policy that saved
many people, as well as their families.
Every step on the way of China's epidemic
prevention and control is explored by China
itself. And Chinese people have seen that
China's approach has protected people well over
the past two years. This is enough for Chinese
people to cast a cold eye on arrogant Western
remarks. The nature of Western media outlets is
political tools, and this has long been
unveiled. Their target of judging China is
setting stumbling blocks on the country's
development path.
China's COVID-19 response measures are never
static, but are under constant adjustments for
the better due to the changing situation. In the
process, China's priority is about how to manage
its own things well, rather than how others
judge it. Whatever policies China adopts on
coping with the virus are based on three
criteria: science, China's interests, and
whether Chinese people are protected.
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