Letters | Why China should accept US vaccine help
- Readers discuss how China should uphold its Covid policy of reducing deaths, and why Hong Kong is not back on travellers’ radar
As a rival, the US has impeded trade with China by imposing tariffs that the World Trade Organization found were against trading rules. By restricting chip exports, the US is also stifling the very globalisation it championed for decades. As a friend, however, the US has offered assistance to China in curbing the Covid pandemic.
Both China and the US are learning how to navigate this complex, yet all-important, bilateral relationship.
China has repeatedly proclaimed that it does not want to replace the US, nor change the present world order shaped by the West. The Chinese dream is not about fighting the West, nor taking revenge for past humiliation. It is about having a fair share of influence in world affairs, commensurate with China’s strengths and contribution. Accepting the US offer of mRNA vaccine assistance would not just save Chinese lives, but also improve the relationship between the two superpowers.
Kwok Hung, The Peak