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China urged on Friday to strengthen cooperation with the United States in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, despite threats by US President Donald Trump to “cut off all relations” with Beijing.
A spokesman for Chinese diplomacy, Zhao Lijian, pleaded this Friday to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in the fight against the new coronavirus.
“Maintaining stable relations between China and the United States is in the fundamental interest of the two peoples and of peace and stability in the world,” he told the press.
On Thursday, Trump tightened his rhetoric against China by stating that he will not speak to his counterpart Xi Jinping and threatening to cut bilateral ties due to the way Beijing handled the covid-19 pandemic.
“I have a very good relationship (with Xi), but right now I don’t want to talk to him,” Trump said. Fox Business Network, adding that he is “very disappointed” by the Chinese handling of the pandemic.
“There are many things that we could do. We could do things. We could cut off any relationship, “he threatened, without further details.
Tension between the United States and China has skyrocketed in recent weeks due to exchanges of accusations about the origin of the pandemic, that it has claimed the lives of 300,000 people.
Trump maintains that Beijing covered up the real magnitude of the epidemic, which originated at the end of 2019 in the city of Wuhan, in central China, which – according to him – allowed its spread.
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