Paris and Beijing exchanged sharp comments on how to deal with the COVID-19 crisis

Exchange of sharp aftershocks between Paris and Beijing to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

The French president questioned the information from China, just as the death toll in Wuhan adjusted and increased by 50 percent.

Emmanuel Macron chose the Financial Times financial newspaper to say: Let’s not be naive, there are things we don’t know! The comments here are that each word has its own weight at a delicate moment. China is risking its image, and France depends on China at a time of health crisis.

The Financial Times asks whether authoritarian regimes cope better with the crisis. Emmanuel Macron replies that it is impossible to compare France, Germany and Italy, on the one hand, and China and Russia, on the other, due to the transparency of the information.

“Given these differences, let’s not be naive and say that crisis management in China has been much better. We don’t know. And obviously there are things that have happened, but we don’t know them,” says Macron.

So Paris stood alongside Washington and London, who had already expressed doubts about how China had coped with the epidemic and where the infection had come from.

“There were delayed data, missing data and erroneous data, but there was no concealment and we will not allow concealment,” said Zhao Lidiang, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

In the context of the exchanges between Paris and Beijing, the WHO congratulated French President Macron this morning for his leading role in the international response to the crisis.

However, the crisis should not become diplomatic either, because at this time, France, like many other countries, depends on the masks produced by China, but also on the drugs produced by China again.

COVID-19 in numbers

	Infected *	New cases	They started	Cured
Bulgaria	846	46	41	141
Lights	2 226 490	64 149	152 545	567 342

	Infected *	New	They started
Bulgaria	846	46	41
Lights	2 226 490	64 149	152 545

* Total number of cases, incl. He died and was healed.
* Total number of cases, including dead and cured.
Source: Worldometer