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- Trump: China has released the virus to the world!
- Hsi: China will be carbon neutral by 2060.
- Bolsonaro: Brazil is getting dirty because of vague interests!
- United Nations Virtual General Assembly in New York.
The leaders of the world’s two largest powers also spoke at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday night (Hungarian time). The venue for the event is New York, but at the UN headquarters, in fact, only a few employees are watching the speeches on the projectors, and the assembly takes place online.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, did not have much fun, immediately attacked China and suggested that the UN hold the communist superpower accountable for “letting the corona virus enter the world.” Trump has again accused Beijing and the World Health Organization, which he says is under Chinese control, of misleading the world when it was established (in January) that the new corona virus would not spread from person to person. Later, his finding that asymptomatic people do not transmit the virus also turned out to be false.
Trump said someone should be held responsible for these fatal mistakes, and those responsible should be in Beijing and the WHO.
Beijing, of course, immediately protested, and the country’s ambassador to the UN called the US president’s lies a lie. Trump’s accusations were also rejected by the WHO communications director.
According to a Reuters report, Chinese President Xi Qin-ping spoke in a much calmer tone, not speaking directly, only cautiously placing a few jabs at Trump. He urged countries around the world to intensify cooperation in fighting the epidemic. He also stated that China has no intention of participating in “neither a cold nor a warm war” with any country.
At the same time, Hszi also supported the WHO, highlighting the leading role of the international organization in the fight against the virus. Reuters commented that China had sought to establish itself in the General Assembly as a believer and leader in international cooperation, the multilateral model, as opposed to offensive self-management, international convention and cooperation (WHO, Paris Convention, Iranian nuclear). opposite.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also spoke about the need to strengthen the WHO, suggesting that a high-level debate on vaccine research and production be held to work as closely as possible.
Since Chinese President Xi Qing’s General Assembly speech, MTI coverage highlighted the environmental sections in which China wants to significantly reduce its carbon footprint by 2030 with strict measures and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. For the first time, the world’s largest carbon emitter has adopted such a tough restriction.
Urging a “green revolution”, Hszi declared that the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the need to protect the environment. “Humanity can no longer afford to ignore the repeated warnings of nature,” the Chinese president said, according to MTI.
Hsi urged international climate action after US President Donald Trump called the Paris Climate Agreement a “unilateral agreement,” despite nearly 200 countries having signed it, while US President has once again criticized China as the world’s largest carbon emitter.
Hszi’s announcement was well received by climate advocates. Greenpeace director Jennifer Morgan called Khan’s president’s speech an “important sign.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended the treatment and environmental policy of the coronavirus epidemic in Brazil in his speech, writes the MTI. Brazil is “the target of the toughest disinformation campaign” about the Amazon and Pantanal wetlands affected by forest fires, Bolsonaro said. The government maintains zero tolerance for environmental crimes and the “disinformation campaign” supported by international institutions serves “vague interests,” said the Brazilian president.
Since the beginning of the year, 71,673 forest fires have been recorded in the Amazon region, 12 percent more than last year. In the southernmost Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland area, the number of foci has more than tripled. According to the latest official figures, 1,258 square kilometers of forest were destroyed in the Amazon in August, 21 percent less than in the same month of 2019.
Bolsonaro also defended his policy of dealing with the pandemic, accusing part of the Brazilian media of politicizing the coronavirus and sowing panic while his government took severe economic measures to avoid major problems. “From the beginning I warned that two problems must be solved in my country, the virus and unemployment, and both problems must be addressed simultaneously, with the same sense of responsibility,” said the president, who was accused of putting the economy before health public.
Brazil has the second highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world after the United States, with 137,272 deaths Tuesday night, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, writes the MTI. (Reuters, CNN, MTI)
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