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WASHINGTON, April 12-- Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has urged a new and effective global governance system, closer Sino-U.S. cooperation to better combat the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that all countries should also reject any attempts to politicize the rapidly-spreading disease. A new and effective global governance system is yet to be built to cope with a crisis of the magnitude of the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Cui said in an interview on April 3 with Ian Bremmer at weekly digital and broadcast show Gzero World, which was aired nationally on Saturday by American Public Television. "If we aim at a new system of international governance that is open, inclusive, that is based on mutual respect among all countries, on the full recognition of the diversity of culture, civilization, political system, economic system, if we can do this, then I think all the things are ready for us to build a new and effective international governance system. We have to make the right choice now," he noted. The world have had a number of crises in this 21st century, maybe starting with the 9/11 terror attack , then the financial crisis, and now this COVID-19 virus, i.e. the security challenges, the financial instability and now public health, according to the ambassador. "If we can still call this a wakeup call, I think we should have woken up long time ago, but still, if we have not started yet, we have to start real efforts to build a good international governance system for the 21st century, for the future," he said, adding big countries including the U.S. and China have great responsibilities in spearheading the efforts. | 
