BRAND-NEW DELHI: The United States and India are collaborating on Covid-19 treatments and vaccines, and guaranteeing both nations have access to products like PPEs and HCQ, said Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State.
Talking to reporters in a tele-conference, Pompeo informed TOI, “we (United States and India) continue to talk about the larger problems, free and open Indo-Pacific, obstacle of China and trade.”
Suggesting that India and the US were complying beyond Covid, he said, significantly, “We’re taking note of provide chains. We want to mesh the supply chains that both nations have access to in locations that are necessary for our national security.”
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There is a growing interest in reducing reliance on China from the US, Japan and India. Japan has devoted over $2 billion to diversify from China.
Rejecting that the US was “scapegoating” the WHO, he protected Trump’s decision to halt financing to the global health organisation, saying, “we’re requiring that institutions that have missions are doing what they should be. WHO has actually not lived up to the values it was set up for.”
Pompeo stated that in his conversations with his equivalents around the world, there was a basic agreement that there were serious drawbacks in World Health Organisation (WHO), both in their regulative and humanitarian help functions.
” We need data and we need realities,” Pompeo stated, about holding China and WHO accountable for the lack info about the origin of the virus and details about China’s handling of it.
In the days before China confessed to the scale of the epidemic, Pompeo stated there was a lot of travel from Wuhan to various parts of the world, numerous on hopping flights. This took the virus to the rest of the world. Both Iran and Italy were early destinations of the infection which travelled from China.
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Responding to questions on altered visa requirements after the pandemic was over, Pompeo showed that some changes might be included. “Today we’re concentrated on battling the epidemic. We wish to go back to being an open world again. We also have to protect the health and lives of our individuals. We’re still believing our way through how we’re going to open our nations for travel.” There are signs that countries might insist on Covid tests and health certificates after worldwide travel is resumed.
Is the US delivering space to China, in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic? Pompeo said, “United States and other democracies of the world will come out of this in such a way that is much better than countries that depend on authoritarian power. It is democracies where individuals actually supply services. America will be at the front of that.”
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