CHINA has never been transparent with anything that directly or indirectly involves the Communist country. Is China’s Sinovac donation to the Philippines a diplomatic way of paying reparation for the humongous economic damage to our country?
Some 600,000 Covid-19 vaccines arrived recently, and hundreds of Filipinos were inoculated as our country hopes to counter the ill effects of the dreaded new coronavirus.
This administration’s diplomatic ties have turned beneficial to our nation though we cannot as yet guarantee the efficacy of Sinovac, vis-à-vis its effect on those vaccinated.
We may recall former United States President Donald Trump and some of its political allies had the earnest intention to let China pay reparations for the immense economic devastation. In fact, according to a report on the Washington Post, Bernan Law group had launched the first major class-action lawsuit against China over the damage done by the virus.
Washington Post quoted a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Scott Kennedy who said: “The chances of getting the Chinese to pay reparations is somewhere between zero and none.” Kennedy, regarded as a foreign policy think tank, suggested: “If your goal is to actually unearth the origins and spread of the virus, end this pandemic, restore economic growth and prevent future crises, you have to get governments and different stakeholders to work together.”
Richard Jovan Heydarian of Al Jazeera news said the newly installed U.S. President Joe Biden will need a Goldilocks approach toward the powerful rival that combines strategic conviction with diplomatic finesse.
Heydarian continued: “Biden is already laying the ground for a China strategy that combines Trump’s commitment to deterrence with Obama’s desire for coalition building.”
In my opinion, our country is doing exactly what Kennedy suggested and what Biden intends to do.
Two of the 10 scientists sent by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed their findings. Professor Dominic Dwyer concluded: “The terrible drainage and ventilation at the Hunan Seafood Market in Wuhan was the ‘amplifying event’ in the pandemic’s fatal spread worldwide.” And then added: “It’s one thing discussing the science... It’s another thing to talk about the politics around this and see the responses change around the politics.”
Dr. Peter Embarek said the WHO team failed to establish where the virus came from or how it first jumped to humans.