Coronavirus / United States: Donald Trump threatens China and refuses to speak; tensions threaten to escalate

Update May 14, 2020 5:14 p.m.: The tensions between the United States and China for him crownThe crisis worsens. He does not want to be with the Chinese president “at this time” Xi Jinping speaks said the president of the United States Donald Triumph Fox Business on Thursday. He was “very disappointed“On Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He has a” very good relationship “with Xi, but does not want to speak to him at this time.

When asked about possible Retaliation The United States against China did not take Trump any concrete step, but it gave a threatening tone: “There are many things that we can do. We could break all relationships.“

The Corona crisis has put severe strain on the relationship between the two countries. United States President Trump accused Beijing of lacking transparency in the spread of the virus since January. Among other things, Trump expressed suspicions that the virus came from a laboratory in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan and had not spread from a wild animal market there, as has been widely assumed so far. So far, Trump has provided no evidence of this allegation.

Crown in the USA USA: more than 36 million citizens lose their jobs

Update May 14, 2020 3:37 PM: Have again Millions of Americans in the wake of the crown pandemic Initial claim for unemployment benefits raised In the week until May 9 inclusive almost three million new applications registered, according to the United States Department of Labor. In the previous seven weeks, more than 33 million people had already submitted such a request, more than ever before in such a short time. With that, since mid-March more than 36 million people in the United States lost their jobs.

Corona in the USA USA: Expert warning “unacceptable” according to Trump

Update May 14, 2020 11:21 AM: The President of the United States, Donald Trump, contradicted on Wednesday the advice of his main adviser in the crown crisis, Anthony Fauci. Trump called the warnings of the internationally recognized epidemiologist “unacceptable“

“We open our country, people want it open, schools will be open,” the president told reporters at the White House. According to excerpts from an interview with Fox Business Network, the president also said he was “totally different” about Fauci’s schools.

At a Senate hearing, the epidemic expert warned against a premature loosening of crown restrictions and also about an early opening of schools and universities.

The growing divisions between the president and his adviser had already been clarified during the senator’s video hearing on Tuesday. Fauci warned of the “really serious” consequences of loosening the crown measures too quickly. There is the “real risk” of a new wave of infections that cannot be controlled.

Trump, on the other hand, is constantly pushing for restrictions to be relaxed. The decision is not largely their responsibility, but that of the individual states and administrative districts. Last but not least, the President is impatiently waiting for the United States economy to start again. No less important, he has in mind the November elections, in which he is fighting for a second term.

With around 84,000 deaths and 1.39 million confirmed cases of infection, the United States is by far the country most affected by the pandemic.

US Crown Crisis: Expert Warns of “Darkest Winter in Recent History”

Update May 14, 2020, 7.30 a.m.: The time for that United States government shortage, warns senior health official Rick Bright. The “darkest winter in recent history” could be that United States in his impending opinion. Especially if the flu breaks out at the same time as the coronavirus.

Without a coordinated strategy, the pandemic would turn into diseases and Deceased leading to an unprecedented move, Bright noted in a pre-release statement from a House committee. In his prepared statement, Bright Trump’s crown policy was heavily criticized. The country is over Trump’s misleading communication and the lack of a paralyzed national strategy, he said. Scientific evidence should be the strategy to fight the novel coronavirus defines, “not politics and nepotism,” he wrote. “Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have explained, 2020 will be the darkest winter in recent history,” he warned.

Bright said he was shot as the director of a Health Department agency in April for refusing to support unsupported treatments for Covid-19 lung disease, which the President of the United States, Donald Trump, promised. Bright was transferred to a position at the National Institute of Health (NIH). Trump in turn said at the time that he did not know the official at all.

Corona virus in the United States: Trump informs journalist “unpleasant question”

First report of May 13, 2020:

Munich / Washington – In times of Coronavirus pandemic There are quite a few people who fear the future. The uncertainty, the changes, the lack of social contacts, all this is not easy to manage *. Each person reacts differently because each person channels their fears differently *.

Donald Trump * Describing him now as a fearful person would probably be wrong. the The american president obviously has completely different problems than before coronavirus or fear the consequences. Works Triumph in recent weeks even thinner than before. You can also read this in our old American ticker on the Corona crisis.

Crown crisis in the US USA: Trump scandal: the president of the USA USA Interrupts PK after an argument with a journalist

So Monday also showed the brevity of his patience when the The american president about him Press conference to Crown pandemic A battle of words with one in front of the White House. American journalist delivered.

The reporter Weijia Jiang from the television station CBS News would have Triumph asked why he had the capabilities in the United States Compare virus testing with other countries as if it were an international competition. There was a banner on Trump’s back that said, “The United States is leading the world in tests.”

Triumph he just barked back. Maybe this is “a question that China should pose, “the United States saidPresident. Jiang then responded by asking why the president was making this note to her, she was suggesting that this was due to her Chinese origins.

Crown crisis in the United States: Donald Trump faintly reacts to criticism

And reacted again Triumph little bit of climbing. He says this “to anyone who asks me such an unpleasant question.” Jiang is in China born but in the United States grew up.

Triumph tried to speak to another journalist while Jiang continued talking and checking. Soon after it broke Triumph the Press conference In the rose garden of the White House and returned to the interior of the building.

Crown crisis in the United States: criticism of Trump is mounting sharply: the President of the United States responds

Throughout his tenure Triumph massive attacks on much of the American media and repeated attacks on individual journalists. At Crown crisis He responded to accusations that it was too late to spread the new virus, including angry attacks on parts of the media that treated him “brutally.”

Another main objective of Trump’s attacks at Crown crisis is Chinawhere the virus was first found in humans *. the The american president He accuses Beijing of informing the world of the pathogen too late and of failing to reveal the extent of its spread.

Germany is moving forward with its plans to open the border: hard data is already available.

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