South Korea and Japan have both shown great support for China amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, which many Chinese citizens hailed as a sign of the deepening friendship of the three East Asian countries.<\/p>\n
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The government of Seoul, capital of South Korea, said on Tuesday, February 11, it would donate medical supplies and equipment worth around 3.5 million yuan ($506,000) to dozens of Chinese cities including Beijing, to help China combat the pneumonia epidemic.<\/p>\n
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Yonhap News Agency<\/em> reported that medical supplies to China include 1,000 protective outfits, 500 pairs of medical goggles, and 30 thermal imaging cameras, and the country\u2019s Korea Federation of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprise) also participated in the donation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A batch of materials are expected to leave Incheon International Airport and arrive in Seoul\u2019s Chinese sister cities, including Beijing and some other cities in Northeast China\u2019s Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, on Wednesday, it reported.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seoul mayor Park Won-soon also extended his gratitude toward Beijing\u2019s previous assistance of special assistance teams to Seoul during the MERS outbreak, and wished China a rapid easing of the current difficulties.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, the Korean Embassy displayed a banner which read, \u201cChina\u2019s difficulties are also ours.\u201d The embassy wrote in a post on China\u2019s Twitter-like platform Sina Weibo, including a picture of the banner that read \u201cSouth Korean Embassy is with you,\u201d with the hashtag \u201cbecause we are family.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Japan also showed sincerity amid the outbreak.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawmakers of the Japanese ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), would each donate around 320 yuan to China, Toshihiro Nikai, the party secretary general told the media on Monday, February 10.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Japan is ready to mobilize the whole country and provide all assistance possible to China in combating the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, heavyweights of the ruling camp, including Toshihiro Nikai, said on Friday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A friend in need is a friend indeed, said Nikai, adding that the Japanese side is ready to spare no effort to provide all possible assistance to China and work with China to combat the epidemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Japan has collected 120,000 sets of protective outfits and will send them to medical institutions in Hubei, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces as well as other places as soon as possible, Nikai said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The epidemic has proved who are true friends, and China will remember, Chinese netizens said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cCome to Harbin [capital of Heilongjiang Province] and the local cuisine will be my treat, dear friend,\u201d wrote one Weibo user, welcoming friends from Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source\uff1aGlobal Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Korea and Japan have both...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21962,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions\/21962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}