崔天凯：中方已向美方提供超14亿个口罩丨China supplies over 1.4 bln face masks to US

"China has supplied the United States with more than 1.4 billion face masks," Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said Tuesday during a virtual panel discussion around the theme of "Risks of US-China 'Decoupling'", held by the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. The figure means one mask for every Chinese, or about five masks for every American. "I don't think many people are aware of these numbers, but we should do more," Cui said.Cui said China is making efforts in facilitating the flow of medical supplies to the US.Politicians and scholars on the forum called for China and the US to work together on a global public health response rather than decoupling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cui Tiankai called for "a serious rethinking of the very foundations" of the bilateral relationship at this critical moment. "For the last few years, there's been so much talk about strategic ………………………………