At U.N., China, Russia and U.S. clash over pandemic responses

China, the United States and Russia butted heads 

Prior to WW1, the so-called 'Great War', empires of that era constantly 'butted heads'. And then things got worse for everyone, with problems from that war remaining unresolved today. (see Syria, Iraq, etc.)

Long passed time for empires to have such far reaching global power. China, the US, Russia and their respective drives to either maintain or expand their areas of control need to be slowed down.

Long passed time for leviathans, government and corporate, to be reined in.

'Small is beautiful' after all. Support your local 'locavore'-type businesses. Support conservation movements.

China doesn't deserve all the fault for the pandemic. They deserve some for poor hygiene and less than open sharing of virus information, but I think all politicians in a similar situation would want to downplay the issue just like China did very early.

The world can certainly organize a response without any single country involved. It isn't like telephones and internet don't connect all these countries in the world. Certainly they can use "WhatsApp" to chat ... er ... except in China.

She quoted Trump’s speech Tuesday to the virtual opening of the General Assembly’s leaders meeting in which he said that to chart a better future, “we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China.”

“The Chinese Communist Party’s decision to hide the origins of this virus, minimize its danger, and suppress scientific cooperation (that) transformed a local epidemic into a global pandemic,” Craft said, adding that these actions “prove that not all member states are equally committed to public health, transparency , and their international obligations.”

Cannot agree more. We are mixing together cause and consequence. US handling of the virus was poor but it was only a consequence of previous cause. The cause happened in China and China needs to be held accountable.

All 3 of these super structures are shameful, they care not for the people of their own countries nor any other. They seek to enrich themselves and have dominion over smaller countries.

The sooner they are dismantled (like the USSR), the better.

Only two of them don’t have over 200,000 deaths.

Only two of them don’t have over 200,000 deaths.

The Russian and Chinese dictatorships might have had a gazillion deaths each for all we know. Anyone who trusts their figures are as insane as a Trump cult member.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking first, stressed the importance of U.N.-centered multilateralism and alluded to countries — including the U.S. — opting out of making a COVID-19 vaccine a global public good available to people everywhere.

China was more than willing to share their bat virus with the entire world. OTOH, China wasn't as willing to deliver the PPE gear that other nations desperately needed to fight the latest Chinese virus. That should teach a lesson to all of those countries who exported their manufacturing to China.