The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced today that China and Mexico’s Foreign Ministers, Wang Yi and Marcelo Ebrard, will co-chair a special teleconference meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Ibero-America and the Caribbean on COVID-19 on the morning of July 23. Questioned what the special significance of the meeting is, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin answered simply that although China and this region are “oceans apart,” they have been cooperating “together against this common foe and conducted practical and effective cooperation to the benefit of all our people.” Thus, such a meeting “will consolidate consensus between the two sides on jointly fighting the pandemic, cement political mutual trust, uphold multilateralism, build with concrete steps a community with a shared future for China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, and contribute to fostering a community for all mankind.”