From Foreign Waters

After the coronavirus outbreak, the United Nations called for a worldwide ban on the wet markets in China. Among numerous such infectious diseases, SARS and Covid-19 are believed to have originated from such markets as one in Wuhan. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that the United States had called China and demanded permanent closure of the wet markets. To understand the Chinese wet markets, here’s a brief introduction: - Chinese wet markets are an everyday shopping place for Chinese people. These are open shops set up on the road where people can purchase live animals of different sorts to cook and eat. It also includes seafood, various wild animals that can be butchered on the spot, fresh vegetables, herbs, and spices. These wet markets have been around for generations and have become an essential part of the Chinese lifestyle. Many Scientists have studied and notified that the root cause of countless infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, MERS, and...

Some US politicians are using the Corona virus as a weapon to discredit China as a words war escalated between the two countries over how to cope with the outbreak, Beijing said. The article accused US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of spreading a "political virus" and using it to belittle China. O'Brien said last week that China's response to the Corona virus was slow, which cost the world two months during which it could have prepared for the disease spread, comments which angered China. As for Pompeo, he said that the lack of data from China hampered the US response to the outbreak of the Corona virus. But Xinhua said the measures taken by Beijing, including imposing strict quarantine on millions of people, had given the world "valuable time" to prepare for the outbreak, which the international community has recognized. She added that the efforts of the United States to deal with cases of HIV...