WASHINGTON Beijing has good reason to be nervous about US President Donald Trump’s diagnosis of testing positive for COVID-19, as his attacks on China regarding the pandemic would get tougher than ever.
Even in the first presidential debate, Trump said “it was China’s fault” and added that it “should never have happened.”
According to CNN, Trump has “consistently played” China’s initial failures in controlling the pandemic to blame China and “particularly the catastrophic effects the virus has had on the United States, where it has killed more than 200,000 people and infected more than 7.3 million, including the president himself. “
“Trump’s rhetoric has enraged Beijing, which in turn has highlighted Washington’s mishandling of the virus through state media and in official comments. Many countries closer to China and exposed to the virus before have handled it. much better than America, and most experts are critical of how Trump has responded to the pandemic, “wrote CNN.
Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin said Trump and first lady Melania Trump who tested positive for COVID-19 “have paid the price of their gamble to downplay COVID-19.” However, he soon deleted the tweet, but it remains “unclear whether it was a personal decision or a direction from above.”
CNN wrote: “Beijing has good reason to be nervous about Trump’s diagnosis. Chinese media and senior officials have long complained about the way the country has been, in their words, a ‘scapegoat.’ from the effects of the pandemic in the United States, and Beijing is decidedly unhappy that it is a big issue in the US elections. “
“However, that seems unlikely to change. Trump could now take an even tougher line on China, relying further on the narrative he has already established that, ultimately, Beijing is the culprit,” he added.
Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler wrote on Twitter: “China lied about this virus and made the World Health Organization an accessory to its cover-up. Now this virus has hit our president and first lady. We MUST hold China accountable for putting in it endangers millions of lives … “including our Commander in Chief.”
Blair Brandt, a Trump campaign fundraiser, further attacked the Chinese Communist Party, saying it “has biologically attacked our president.”
CNN further wrote that Beijing “always valued stability above all else,” but added that Trump’s diagnosis “threatens that stability, setting the stage for an uncomfortable golden week for China’s top leaders.”
Trump said Saturday that he was “feeling fine” after being hospitalized following his positive diagnosis for coronavirus. He also thanked the “amazing” medical staff at Walter Reed Hospital for their help.
“The doctors, nurses and everything at the great Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from equally incredible institutions that have joined them, are incredible. Tremendous progress has been made in the last six months in fighting this plague. With your help, I feel good, “Trump wrote on Twitter. (AND ME)
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