In a statement issued on Friday 8 May, the EU Ambassador to China, Nicolas Chapuis, justified the publication a few days previously of an editorial he had co-written with the Member States' ambassadors to China, even though it had been changed in China Daily and not published by People's Daily, contrary to what had been planned.
The phrase in this 'op-ed “But the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world over the past three months, has meant...