Coronavirus: China handed chance to help shape international response as G20 calls emergency meeting
- Group of 20 (G20) will hold an extraordinary virtual summit meeting next week in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus and its economic impact
- On Wednesday, China reported just one new domestic case, with the rest of the world still combating rising cases and deaths as well as economic damage
The world’s top 20 economies are set to hold an emergency virtual summit meeting next week, giving China the chance to participate in international efforts to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and its growing economic impact.
The Group of 20 (G20) will seek to put forward a coordinated set of policies in response to the global outbreak of Covid-19 in a bid to alleviate its human and economic implications, the government of Saudi Arabia, the current chair of the international forum, announced on Tuesday.
Even though China, the world’s second largest economy, has battled the coronavirus to a standstill in the last two months, it was not mentioned in a near-800 word communique released by the G7 on Monday.
The G20 gathering could give China a forum to answer the growing calls by Chinese scholars for Beijing to boost its role in world governance by pushing globally the model it used to contain the coronavirus, which appears to be succeeding.