"Claiming China will not share the fruits of vaccine development actually reflected US' own ulterior intention of stockpiling the vaccine for profits. The US description of China as an enemy is actually what it wanted to do to China." 

The accusation by a US senator that China is trying to slow down and sabotage the development of a coronavirus vaccine by Western countries is ridiculous and groundless, Chinese analysts said, noting that such claims actually reflect what the US wanted to do to China.  
Republican senator Rick Scott claimed on Sunday that he has evidence of China hampering the West from developing the vaccine first, calling the country "an adversary to Americans and democracy around the world." 
Scott declined to give details of the evidence behind his accusation, but said it came from intelligence agencies. 
"This vaccine is really important to all of us getting our economy going again. What I really believe is whether England does it first or we do it first, we are going to share. Communist China, they are not going to share." 
Chinese analysts ridiculed the groundless and ignorant claims, saying politicians like Scott seem to ignore China's repeated and consistent stance on making the vaccine a global public good. 
Claiming China will not share the fruits of vaccine development actually reflected US' own ulterior intention of stockpiling the vaccine for profits. The US description of China as an enemy is actually what it wanted to do to China, analysts said. 
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying also urged Scott "not to be shy" in presenting his evidence. Rumors to smear and defame China are proliferating in the US. Does the country not have any laws to prevent people from fabricating such rumors? Hua asked at Monday's press conference. 
The battle is between human and virus, not China and the US, and any country taking the lead would be good news for mankind. China pledged at the World Health Assembly to make the vaccine a global public good when it becomes available, to guarantee that it is accessible and affordable in developing countries, and "we urge the US to make a similar promise of sharing a vaccine," Hua said. 
China has also been cooperating with the world in its response to the coronavirus. At the World Health Assembly, China pledged to offer $2 billion over two years to help the global COVID-19 response. Chinese scientists have participated in developing six of the 10 WHO-registered vaccines currently under clinical evaluation. The country has cooperated in vaccine R&D with Germany, Canada, the US and the UK. 
US domestic politics have been dragged into an anti-China mania that House members either abandon to acquire information, or that causes them to intentionally distort information related to China amid the coronavirus, Li Haidong, a professor at the Institute of International Relations of the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Monday.
Using words like "Communist China" and "democracy" exposed Scott's ideology-driven claims that turn a blind eye to facts and do not consider the harm done to diplomatic relations when he tries to smear China and paint it as a threat to humanity, Li said. 
Scott said, "This vaccine is really important to all of us getting our economy going again," according to a Reuters news report, which clearly showed what the US cares about is its economy, not humanity, analysts said. 
Analysts also pointed out that such defamation by the US is nothing new, as it claimed in May that China was stealing vaccine information from the US, again without providing evidence.