China will give priority to providing Covid-19 vaccines to Mekong River countries: China Daily

BEIJING - When Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday at the third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Leaders' Meeting that China will give priority to providing Covid-19 vaccines to the Mekong River countries - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - and share hydrological information with them, he was driving home the message that China will do its utmost to help these countries better cope with shared challenges.

The focus of the meeting was on strengthening cooperation to address the novel coronavirus that necessitated the meeting being conducted by video links, including ways to promote the region's sustainable development in the face of the challenges caused by the outbreak. To some extent, it is China's rise over the past 40 years that has driven the common development of the region, and created space for the countries to tap into their complementarities.

Which constitutes a stark contrast with the beggar-thy-neighbour policy some countries have adopted, and the China threat theories some politicians try to peddle around the world.

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