French President, Emmanuel Macron has dismissed the idea
that China’s handling of the Coronavirus epidemic was transparent.
Macron said there are things that happened in China that are
not known up till today.
He said this while dismissing reports by ‘The Financial
Times’ that China could be a role model for democracies.
Macron opined that there was no comparison between countries
where information flows freely and those where truth is suppressed.
“Given these differences, the choices made and what China is
today, which I respect, let’s not be so naive as to say it’s been much better
at handling this.
“We don’t know. There are clearly things that have happened
in China that we don’t know about,” he added.
Macron’s comments are coming at a time when China denied
suspicions that Coronavirus might have originated in a medical laboratory
rather than a food market in the city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the
pandemic.
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo had called on the Chinese
government,”to come clean” on what it knows about COVID-19.
But in his interview with the Financial Times, Macron warned
that the European Union was at “a moment of truth” amid the economic and health
crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Macron further called for support to Spain and Italy where
more than 40,000 people have died from COVID-19, NAN reports.
“We are at a moment of truth, which is to decide whether the
European Union is a political project or just a market project.
“I think it’s a political project, we need financial
transfers and solidarity, if only so that Europe holds on,” Macron added.
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