Italy got no joy from EU partners when it pleaded for masks this month. Now China has sent 300 doctors and nurses, impressing—and unnerving— Europe.
By Eric Sylvers in Milan and Bojan Pancevski in Berlin March 18, 2020 4:51 pm ET A group of 300 Chinese intensive-care doctors began to arrive in Italy on Wednesday, one of several Chinese offers to support epidemic-stricken European countries, as China tries to rebrand itself internationally from source of the new coronavirus to a friendly helper.
“It’s good that China is making humanitarian gestures, but it should not be allowed to rewrite the history of where the virus originated and how their initial handling of it allowed for it to spread across the world,” said Thorsten Benner, head of the Global Public Policy Institute, a Berlin-based think tank. Still, he added: “This is a shocking failure of European solidarity. The impression in Italy, Spain, Serbia and so on is that the weaker links will be left alone” by the EU.
China’s coronavirus diplomacy has also extended to Balkan countries that haven’t been able to import medical material from the EU—including Serbia, which has long had strong ties to Beijing. “European solidarity does not exist. It was a fairy tale,” President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday. “We put great expectations and hopes in the only country that can help us out of this difficult situation: the People’s Republic of China.
“China can claim this is success of their system, because they brought the epidemic under control, while Europe is struggling,” Mr. Krastev said. In recent years, China had already begun extending its soft power in the EU, including through the Belt and Road Initiative that aims to invest in infrastructure around the world that can facilitate trade with China. Italy signed an agreement with China in 2019, although significant investments haven’t yet followed. China also made infrastructure investments in Greece, Portugal and some other European countries.
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