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SHOOTING LIST
NEW YORK, NEW YORK STATE, UNITED STATES SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 SOURCE: AFPTV
1. SYNCHRONOUS SOUND 1 – Zhang Jun, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations (male, English, 16 seconds): “If we have to hold someone responsible, the United States should be responsible for losing so many lives with their irresponsible behavior.”
2. SYNCHRONIZED SOUND 2 – Zhang Jun, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations (male, English, 20 seconds): “I have to make it very clear that the attempt by some American politicians to blame and scapegoat will not win time they have wasted and it won’t help them solve their own problems. “
3. SYNCHRONOUS SOUND 3 – Zhang Jun, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations (male, English, 11 seconds): “You may wish you were great. But to be great, you have to act like a leader.”
4. Mid-shot Zhang Jun jokes with the press, puts on his mask and leaves the room.
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Trump whips China as UN warns against ‘Cold War’ By Philippe Rater with Shaun Tandon in Washington
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ATTENTION – Adds to China’s reax envoy, Putin speech /// United Nations, United States, September 22, 2020 (AFP) – US President Donald Trump angrily blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic in a speech Tuesday to the United Nations, whose chief warned against a new “Cold War” between the two powers. At a General Assembly held almost entirely virtually due to Covid-19, Trump delivered a campaign-mode speech, even using his loaded term “China virus” as the death of the United States. “We must hold the nation that unleashed accountable. this plague on the world: China, “Trump said in a recorded speech to the General Assembly, where each nation was represented by a single masked delegate. Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, attacked China for its carbon emissions and plastic dumping. “Those who attack America’s exceptional environmental record while ignoring China’s rampant pollution are not interested in the environment. They just want to punish America. And I will not tolerate it,” he said. Trump renewed his criticism of China’s role in the respiratory disease, the news of which was suppressed when cases emerged late last year in Wuhan. “The Chinese government and the World Health Organization … – which is virtually controlled by China – falsely stated that there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission, “Trump said, referring to initial statements from the UN health body that he later reviewed. Trump has given notice that the United States Washington has been the largest contributor to the health body, which has tackled polio, malaria and other diseases around the world.Critics say Trump is trying to put the blame on his handling of the Covid-19 that has had a greater impact in the United States than in any other country His Democratic rival in the November 3 elections, Joe Biden, has promised to keep the United States in the WHO if he wins.
– ‘Political virus’ –
Leaders were asked to send videos days in advance in a partially successful attempt to avoid technical glitches, meaning Chinese President Xi Jinping was unable to respond to Trump’s comments, but China’s ambassador to the Nations United Zhang Jun summoned reporters to describe Trump’s tone as “incompatible with the general atmosphere” of the world body. “When the international community is really fighting hard against Covid-19, the United States is spreading a political virus here in the General Assembly,” he said. “If we have to hold anyone accountable, the United States should be held accountable for losing so many lives with its irresponsible behavior.” Xi, in a gentle speech before a Great Wall painting, warned the world not to “politicize” the fight against the coronavirus. Xi said China would contribute another $ 15 million to a UN fund on coronavirus. “China has no intention of entering a Cold War,” he said, urging the world to avoid “falling into the trap of a clash of civilizations.” The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, when opening the General Assembly, also warned that “we must do everything possible to avoid a new Cold War.” “We are moving in a very dangerous direction. Our world cannot afford a future in the two largest economies splitting the world into a Great Fracture, each with its own business and financial rules and artificial intelligence and internet capabilities, “Guterres said. The Trump administration launched a global campaign against influence. of China, rejecting its claims in the South China Sea and warning nations of the risks of accepting its generous spending on infrastructure.
– Covid ‘populism’ –
Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech praised the safety of a Covid vaccine presented by Moscow, which has generated great skepticism among Western scientists, Putin called for universal access to the vaccine and offered to give it free of charge to the staff of the UN. addressed criticized nationalist approaches to the coronavirus, without naming Trump or other world leaders. “Populism and nationalism have failed. Those approaches to containing the virus have often made things worse.” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who contracted Covid himself, used his speech to accuse his country’s media of sowing panic. The UN General Assembly in normal years attracts some 10,000 people from around the world, a prospect that is unthinkable at a time when nations have imposed strict entry requirements to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It has claimed almost 950,000 lives worldwide. burs-sct / bgs
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