By Sundar Nath Bhattarai China's dedication and contributions in combating the Covid-19 pandemic, both domestically and globally, has remained to be greatly applauding. China's efforts in ensuring the 'accessibility and affordability of Chinese vaccines as a 'global public good'' as declared by President Xi, is being sincerely pursued. China's donation and supplies of several medical gears and vaccines to over 100 countries, together with collaborations for promoting local production capabilities with some of them, have become a praiseworthy hallmark in international cooperation combatting the pandemic. China can be said to have really stood at the forefront of the pandemic. China has been an active practitioner of international anti-pandemic cooperation. It has provided, since the early days of the pandemic, 2 billion US dollars in assistance to developing countries, 280 billion masks, 3.4 billion protective suits and 4 billion testing kits and altogether 2 billion doses of vaccines to the world. It has announced to provide an additional 3.4 billion US dollars in international aid to support Covid-19 response and socio-economic recovery to the developing countries. Nepal, in the very crucial period of suffering from the pandemic, received a generous grant from China of 3.4 million doses of vaccines at two lots and 4 million additional doses on commercial procurement with further facilitation. China's grants also included oxygen cylinders, ventilators and numerous medical gears which Nepal was in dire need of. In addition, China has assured Nepal of its further assistance as per its need in the days ahead. We cannot but appreciate China's wisdom and strength in the global fight against the pandemic and the way it has managed economic sustainability all along the serious pandemic period. In the forthcoming post-pandemic era, as per the forecast of prominent international financial and economic agencies like IMF and OECD, prospects of China's GDP rise is expected to supersede many of the developed economies. The unscrupulous claim perpetrated by some individual western countries, and the US, in particular, was on the origin of coronavirus from Wuhan lab, allowing it to spread all over the world, which was categorically denied by many prominent experts of the world including Dr Anthony Fauci, the medical advisor to the US President. Two WHO teams that visited Wuhan the last march have also given clean sheets to China on this. The present US administration under President Biden seems still inclined to deepen the virus-tracing task, with additional pressure to WHO, with China in mind as its culprit. This insistence further confirms the United States' political motivation to mainly smear China and dampen the principal role that China played and the global popularity it gained in combatting the pandemic in cooperation with many friendly countries the world over. In fact, China, in turn, seems by itself in favour of conducting the virus-tracing cooperation in an open, transparent, and responsible disposition, on a purely scientific basis, without any political prejudices and vows to collaborate in jointly cutting off the very route of virus transmission as a final goal. The politicisation of virus-origin tracing, undoubtedly, not only impedes the very objective of virus-traceability cooperation but also leads to controversies and confrontations, rather than collaborations and cooperation, which are so vital the prerequisites for combatting and defeating the pandemic and for promoting the post-pandemic recovery for the greater good of the humanity as a whole. President Xi Jinping, calling for international cooperation, has said, "solidarity and cooperation are the weapons to defeat Covid-19”. There can be no denial of this. The writer is the acting chair of the China Study Center Nepal