马克龙被问及,中国的做法能令疫情受控是否暴露西方民主国家的弱点时,他说开放社会和压制真相的社会之间没有可比性。他说:「鉴于这些差异、(大家)做出的选择,以及中国今天的情况,而我是尊重的――我们不要天真地说它在处理这一问题上做得好得多。」(Giventhese differences, the choices made and what China is today, whichI respect, let"s not be so naive as to say it"s been much better athandling this.)
他说:「我们不知道,显然有些东西已发生了,而我们不知道。」(We don"tknow. There are clearly things that have happened that we don"tknow about.)