China's Elite steps in for help
Facing a serious lack of medical supplies US calls for
assistance.
A move that could straighten the relationship between the
two countries, china that has been a very helpful country amid the covid19 not
only provided support for Italy, France, Spain and many other countries, but
also the United states as the hospitals and state officials desperate shortage
in masks and other necessary gear needed to face the coronavirus outbreak.
China with its factories can make it easy but the Washington
hostility towards Beijing and the previous accusations to china on spreading
the virus can’t just make things go easy. But some of china’s elite and others
who have interests in keeping the two countries relationships alive are stepping
in to help.
A group of individuals, academics and former diplomats have
responded to the call, an elite of china’s finest including people like Jack Ma
and Joseph Tsai, the co-founders of Ali baba, the Chinese e-commerce giant;
Mark Benioff, the co-founder of Salesforce and Yichen Zhang, the chairman of Citic
capital, a major Chinese investment firm.
Mr Zhang responded to help one of Citic capital’s portfolio
companies, which got into the business of making protective gear for china
during its own outbreak, and Yale University which his daughter attends. He sent
10.000 masks and 40 protective gowns to Yale’s health clinic.
The trump administration has blamed china for global spread of the coronavirus, as trump has also accused china for taking Americans jobs
and launched a trade war against china. Two-thirds of Americans now hold
unpleasant views of china, according to a pew research centre survey released
this week, the highest level since it began asking the question in 2005.
The companies and individuals are acting at a time of
yawning gaps, both in the vast and important U.S. - china relationships and in
the American government’s own response. The trump administration has frustrated
states by telling them to buy their own equipment and has struggled to meet the
nation’s growing demands. And filling those gaps could refresh and restore the
image of china in the eyes of many Americans.
Mr Jack Ma china’s richest has chartered a plane to New York
in March to deliver more than one million masks and testing kits, among other
donations among the world.
As New York governor asked for the state to provide ventilators
and protective gears, Mr Tsai and his wife arranged the delivery of
2.000ventalors and millions of masks and goggles to the state.
This actions taken by china might be a start to let go of
the current situation and begin to hold new relationship as the virus can only
be defeated if the nations over the world stand as one and be in the assistance
of other countries.
Source: NYT
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