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China has set a good example of international cooperation by helping other countries, including Pakistan, to fight against COVID-19, Pakistani senator Mushahid Hussain Syed has said.
China has been adhering to the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and giving practical assistance to the countries facing difficulties to combat the disease, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate's standing committee on foreign affairs told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"For example, in Pakistan's case, we did not have any diagnostic materials, and we did not have testing kits. China immediately provided 13,000 testing kits and financial support to our hospitals. We are very grateful to China, because this helped us better cope with this crisis and also contain it because this was spreading like wildfire," said Syed.
He commended the Chinese leadership for mobilizing all resources to put the coronavirus under control nationally, saying that the Chinese leadership did a remarkable work by "establishing hospitals in Wuhan within around 10 days."
"Thousands of health workers came from all over China. They spread out and they worked with dedication," he said.
Lauding the responsibility and determination China showed to combat the epidemic, the senator said that the Chinese people have given a very positive response to the call of their leadership by adopting self-isolation to avoid the spread of the disease.
Epidemics do not have any boundary, nationality, or race. China, being fully aware of it, has cooperated with the international community and the World Health Organization, which also commended China for its efforts, he noted.
Talking about the experience of epidemic prevention which China has brought to the world, Syed said that the epidemic took everyone by surprise, and no one had prepared for it.
"It was like an ambush by an enemy, which was unknown and whose causes were unknown either. But China showed the way (of) how to organize in a logistical manner, how to medically pursue that, and how to not create panic, but (to) contain it within its own epicenter," he said.
Syed said that one of the main purposes of the Pakistani president's recent visit to China was to express solidarity and support for China on this common fight of humanity.
Lamenting recent remarks by some U.S. politicians labeling the coronavirus as "the Chinese Virus," the senator called it a "disgraceful and unacceptable" approach. "This is racism. And this is racism directed against an entire community and entire people, an entire nationality. This is sort of a hate crime."
The WHO has specifically stated that no infectious disease should be attributed to one country, one community, one race or one nationality, he said, adding that nobody called the HIN1 flu in 2009 an American flu.
"Using this kind of thing is creating fear and hatred. This is a violation of all diplomatic norms and all norms of international civilized behaviors as well as international law. We condemn it and the entire international community condemns it because such language is not acceptable," said the Pakistani senator.
(by Misbah Saba Malik)
File Photo: Staff transport medical materials raised by Zhejiang Province for Italy at Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, March 17, 2020. (Xinhua)
File Photo: Staff members load medical supplies onto a flight to Japan at Shenyang Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, March 16, 2020. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)
