Ms. Penny Pritzker, former US Secretary of Commerce, wrote a letter to Mr. Wang Chao, President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA), on March 30, in which she thanked President Wang for his letter of good wishes on the COVID-19 outbreak in America. Ms. Pritzker said, “I appreciate your good wishes as we are working to contain and manage the Covid-19 pandemic here in the United States.  I certainly agree that this situation, once again, demonstrates the need for greatly enhanced international coordination and cooperation on this and a range of other critical global issues”.