US President Trump says China's handling of Covid-19 proves Beijing wants to make him lose his re-election race in November
President Donald Trump says China should have been more active in letting the world know about the coronavirus much sooner.
The Republican president, often accused of not acting early enough to prepare the United States for the spread of the virus, said he believed China should have been more active in letting the world know about the coronavirus much sooner.Asked whether he was considering the use of tariffs or even debt write-offs for China, Trump would not offer specifics. "There are many things I can do," he said. "We're looking for what happened.
He said the trade deal that he concluded with Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at reducing chronic US trade deficits with China had been "upset very badly" by the economic fallout from the virus.A senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday that an informal "truce" in the war of words that Trump and Xi essentially agreed to in a phone call in late March now appeared to be over.
Trump also said South Korea has agreed to pay the United States more money for a defence cooperation agreement but would not be drawn out on how much.
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