The United States administration has been telling one-sided stories about its fight against the novel coronavirus, and highlighting the country's advantages in technology, while belittling other countries' anti-pandemic measures and the importance of international cooperation, turning the pandemic into a competition.
In spite of accounting for the highest numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the world, the White House has been spreading propaganda that the US is a leading science and technology power and therefore enjoys advantages in virus testing, treatment, and vaccine development and application. The White House has also tried to stop governments from buying Chinese testing equipment, and claimed other countries hacked into US systems to steal the research results.
In its populist stories, the US administration has skipped over the fact that global technology cooperation has unprecedentedly deepened amid the pandemic. The Global Vaccine Summit on June 4, hosted by the United Kingdom, raised $8.8 billion from 62 donor governments and 12 foundations, corporations and organizations to help Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to immunize more than 300 million children against infectious diseases and support the global fight against COVID-19.
Research organizations, the Global Research Council for instance, have urged openness and sharing of research findings and data to propel the development of diagnostics, vaccines and prevention measures. High-tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, TikTok and WeChat teamed up with the World Health Organization for a "hackathon" to develop anti-coronavirus software. And multinational companies including IBM, Seagate and Canon have signed different initiatives to pledge open intellectual property to help strengthen the fight against COVID-19.
Source: China Daily
