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Trump said again that he was not interested in renegotiating with China. (ARCHIVE)
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United States President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was very disappointed with China over its inability to contain the new coronavirus, saying that the global pandemic had placated its trade agreement between the United States and China.
The coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, China in December and quietly spread when Washington and Beijing signed a Phase 1 trade agreement hailed by the Republican president as a major achievement.
“I am very disappointed with China,” the Republican president said in an interview broadcast Thursday on Fox Business Network.
“They should never have let this happen. So I make a great business deal and now I say it doesn’t seem the same to me. The ink was barely dry and the plague came. And it doesn’t feel the same to me,” Trump said.
Under the Phase 1 agreement signed in January, Beijing pledged to purchase at least $ 200 billion in additional US goods and services. USA For two years, while Washington agreed to cut tariffs in stages for Chinese products.
A Chinese state newspaper reported that some government advisers in Beijing were urging further talks and possibly invalidating the deal.
Trump said again that he was not interested in renegotiating.
While the US intelligence agencies. USA They said the virus did not appear to be man-made or genetically modified, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in early May that there is “a significant amount of evidence” that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan.
His comments followed Trump’s claim on April 30 that he was confident that the coronavirus may have originated from a Chinese virology laboratory.
In the Fox Business interview, which was taped on Wednesday, Trump focused more on China’s response to the outbreak than on its origin.
“We have a lot of information, and it’s not good. Whether it came from the lab or from the bats, it all came from China, and they should have stopped it. At the source they could have stopped it.” said.
“It got out of control.”
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