“It’s necessary for us to increase exchanges and communication between doctors and veterinarians and set up a system to bridge human and veterinary medicine.”
Wen Yumei, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor at the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, commenting at the Second Symposium on Global Health in Shanghai that many new infectious diseases are transmitted to humans from animals
“The anti-China conservative forces in the US and their self-centered values are highly similar with those in China advocating a high-pitched response to Sino-US confrontations. Their hostile anti-China sentiments and China's arrogant faction have created a vicious feedback loop.”
Historian Xiao Gongqin on his WeChat public account that extreme forces among the Chinese and American public would further increase Sino-US tensions
“No country in the world has a perfect human rights record. China is willing to exchange ideas with other countries to promote common progress in human rights based on equality and mutual respect. But China won’t be preached to about human rights and rejects double standards. China disapproves of the distortion of facts, spread of disinformation and interference in other countries’ domestic affairs in the name of human rights.”
Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responding to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s criticism of China’s human rights record
“[China] has not in the last 40 years, for example, been engaged in any war overseas, and one brief war before that. And in the meantime, the United States has been engaged in probably about a dozen wars since 1980. So, I think there is no question that we can have a peaceful world, and that it is in China’s interest for peace and it’s in America’s interests for peace also. And when people claim that China is an aggressive country, well, that is ridiculous. I say, look in the mirror...”
Jeffrey Sachs, chairman of the leadership committee of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, in an interview with the China Daily
“The most important thing [for the US] is to make more efforts to contain the [Covid-19] virus, to save more lives. I have to make it very clear that some US politicians’ attempt to shift the blame and scapegoat will not help them regain lost time and solve any problems...”
Zhang Jun, a Chinese standing delegate to the United Nations during the general debate of the UN’s Third Committee, as cited by Haike, a video news outlet under the People’s Daily
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