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Exchange of blows between the US and China: “Big countries should behave like this too”
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The President of the United States delivers a speech at the beginning of the general debate at the 75th UN General Assembly
The president of the United States calls on the United Nations to hold China accountable for dealing with the virus crisis. He accuses China and the WHO of having incorrectly reported on the nature of the spread of the corona virus.
Trump launches an attack on China at the UN General Assembly. Calls on the United Nations to hold the country responsible for facing the virus crisis. Chinese President Xi is opposed to it.
reOnald Trump has made serious accusations against China due to the global spread of the coronavirus. “We must hold the nation that unleashed this plague on the world to account: China,” Trump said in his video message to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Tuesday. The Beijing government has not stopped the worldwide spread of the “China virus”.
The speech recorded in the White House was played in the assembly on Tuesday. In it, Trump accuses China and the World Health Organization (WHO) of having incorrectly reported on the nature of the spread of the coronavirus. They initially stated that there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission of the virus. “They later wrongly said that people without symptoms would not spread the disease.”
“The Chinese government and the World Health Organization, which is practically controlled by China, have falsely stated that there is no evidence of person-to-person transmission,” the US president said. He demanded: “The United Nations must hold China accountable for its actions.”
Trump continued: “75 years after the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, we are once again engaged in a great global struggle. We are waging a fierce fight against the invisible enemy, the China virus, which has claimed countless lives in 188 countries. “
In the United States, the pandemic sparked the largest mobilization since World War II. Trump announced: “We are going to distribute a vaccine, we are going to defeat the virus, we are going to end the pandemic and we are going to enter a new era of unprecedented prosperity, cooperation and peace.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping did not directly address the US accusations in his message, which was also broadcast on video. However, he warned against attempts to abuse the corona pandemic to “politicize and stigmatize.” Instead, the Chinese president called for global solidarity in the fight against the disease.
“Big countries should also behave like big countries,” Xi said, probably in the direction of the United States. “In the face of economic globalization, burying one’s head in the sand like an ostrich or fighting with Don Quixote’s spear goes against the current of history. To be clear: the world will never return to isolation. “
According to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, about 200,000 people have died after being infected with the virus in the United States since the start of the corona pandemic. Additionally, there were more than 6.8 million confirmed infections with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 in the US.
Gueterres speaks of a “momentous” health emergency
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, warned in his opening speech against a new confrontation between the United States and China. “Our world cannot afford a future in which the two largest economies divide the world into a large fraction. We have to avoid that by all means, ”Guterres said.
An “epoch-making” health emergency, an economic decline and job losses that have not been seen since the Great Depression, as well as the risk of a new Cold War between the United States and China, the Portuguese continued.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, the 75th general debate of the UN General Assembly will take place practically this year. Representatives from all 193 member states, including more than 150 heads of state and government, do not speak at the UN headquarters in New York, as is often the case, but through pre-recorded video speeches, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Guterres spoke on the spot in the great hall of the General Assembly, but only one diplomat from each of the 193 UN nations was allowed to be present. They had to spread out at great intervals in the corridor and they all had to wear a mask.
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