mo4ch:>‘People abandoned to die of hunger & disease’: France summons Chinese envoy over criticism of West's response to Covid-19 pandemic | Mo4ch News
Paris has summoned its Chinese envoy after the embassy published a blistering critique of the West’s response to the Covid-19 crisis, accusing leaders of failure to act and abandoning vulnerable citizens to death and starvation.“Certain publicly voiced opinions by representatives of the Chinese embassy in France are not in line with the quality of the bilateral relation between our two countries,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a statement late Tuesday, calling on Ambassador Lu Shaye to answer for an article published on the Chinese Embassy website over the weekend.Entitled ‘Restoring distorted facts,’ the lengthy post – which listed no author – tore into the US and European governments for their handling of the pandemic, while defending Beijing from accusations of concealing information and a sluggish response.In the West, we have seen politicians tearing themselves apart to recover votes; advocate herd immunity, thus abandoning their citizens alone in the face of the vi…