DAVOS 2021: China's Xi Jinping fires warning shot about 'cold wars, hot wars, tech wars, trade wars'

China’s president Xi Jinping used his near-half an hour speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) virtual gathering — The Davos Agenda — to unveil his four point plan on how the globe’s leaders need to unify more and put aside historical, cultural, and socially systemic differences to strengthen the world’s economy.

“Coronavirus shouldn’t be an excuse for de-globalisation,” he said to delegates at the virtual summit.

“The past year was marked by the sudden onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic and the world economy has been mired in deep recession and humanity crises rarely seen in human history. The pandemic is far from over... but winter cannot prevent the start of spring. Humanity will prevail over the virus... and emerge even stronger.”

The coronavirus pandemic has led to nearly 100 million COVID-19 cases and out of those, over 2 million have died.

Mainland China has had a total number of 89,115 confirmed COVID-19 cases and the death toll is at 4,635.

To put into perspective, the US, with a population of about 330 million, has had over 25 million cases of which half a million people have died of COVID-19. The UK, with a population of over 66 million people, has had over 3.6 million cases and over 90,000 deaths. Whereas countries that have been more successful in tackling the virus, such as New Zealand with a population of around 5 million, there have been just over 2,200 coronavirus cases of which only 25 people have died.

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