Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to provide $2 billion in aid to help other countries that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Xi made this proclamation on Monday while speaking via video conference at the opening ceremony of the 73rd World Health Assembly, an annual meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body.

The money will be provided over the next two years and will especially go towards developing countries, said Xi.

During his address, Xi looked to strike a contrast between himself and Donald Trump, speaking of global cooperation and international solidarity while mourning those lives lost around the world and calling for increased support for the WHO.

He also declared that once Chinese researchers finish a vaccine, it will be made available for the “global public good.”                                                                                                                                                                                                    https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1262336440886648834                           
At the assembly, a draft resolution will be discussed which calls for a review into the origin and spread of the coronavirus.

While China has touted its own openness and transparency regarding the oubreak, it has pushed back against any international investigation into the virus’s origins. Just hours before the start of the opening ceremony, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called the draft resolution “premature.”

However, Xi himself struck a slightly different tone in his speech, declaring that China agrees with the need for an investigation but adding that it shouldn’t be conducted right now.

“China supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to Covid-19 after it is brought under control, to sum up our experience and address deficiencies,” he said. “This work should be led by science and professionalism, led by the WHO and conducted in an objective and impartial manner.”

Reacting to that the United States on Monday said China must pay more than the $2 billion it committed to the World Health Organization, calling the pledge a token to distract from what the Trump administration claims was Beijing’s failure to properly alert the world to the coronavirus outbreak.

China’s commitment “is a token to distract from calls from a growing number of nations demanding accountability for the Chinese government’s failure to meet its obligations … to tell the truth and warn the world of what was coming,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot said in a statement.