Donald Trump said he holds China ‘fully responsible for concealing the virus and unleashing it upon the world’ at a White House press conference today.
The President has also signed legislation sanctioning the People’s Republic for eroding Hong Kong’s democratic freedoms with an ‘oppressive’ new security law allowing political opponents to be extradited to Beijing for trial.
He also signed an executive order ending US preferential treatment for the city, saying it would be dealt with the ‘same as mainland China’. The two moves are part of the Trump administration’s offensive against the country for hiding details on human-to-human transmission of coronavirus.
The almost daily swipes at the Asian superpower come as Trump is being criticised for the surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States. As he worked to portray his upcoming presidential election challenger Joe Biden as weak on China, he called his career ‘a gift to the Chinese Communist Party’.
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US-China relations are at a low. Since the two nations signed phase one of a trade deal, the talks are currently stalled with virtually no hope of restarting before the November election.
At today’s conference Trump said ‘Look, we made a great trade deal — was done, the ink wasn’t even dry, and they hit us with the plague. So right now, I’m not interested in talking to China about another deal. I’m interested in doing other things with China.’
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