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Published: May 21, 2020 10:06:31 am
Donald Trump added that China was “desperate” to have the former Vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, to win the presidential race. (Reuters)
President Donald Trump has stepped up his rhetoric against China, suggesting that the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, is behind a “disinformation and propaganda attack in the United States and in Europe.”
“Everything comes from the top,” Trump said in a series of tweets on Wednesday night. He added that China was “desperate” to have the former Vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, to win the presidential race.
While Trump has often blamed China for failing to prevent a pandemic now ravaging the global economy, it has been careful to maintain that his relationship with Xi remains strong. Of foreign affairs of China, the ministry has regularly countered with similar charges, saying that the Triumph of administration was seeking to hide the facts about the virus-to deflect from their own shortcomings.
Trump and other Republicans have been stepping up efforts to paint China as the villain, as the U.S. economy moves into recession, and the president’s handling of the crisis threatening the party grip on the executive branch. China has denied Trump says that he was trying to damage their chances of re-election in November.
The dispute has revived the worst case scenarios on united states-China ties, edging them closer to confrontation than at any time since the two sides established relations four decades ago. Of supply chains and visas to the cyberspace and Taiwan, the two largest economies in the world are the escalation of conflicts across multiple fronts that had calmed down after it signed a “phase one” on the trade in the month of January.
On Wednesday, the Chinese army condemned to a rare message from the U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to Taiwan’s president as a “bad and very dangerous,” promised to defend Beijing’s claim to the democratically ruled island. Hours later, the White House issued a broad critique of China’s economic growth and military policies in a report to the Congress, without detailing specific actions the united states will take in response.
The Senate also overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that could lead to Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. be excluded from trading on U.S. stock exchanges. The Republican-controlled upper chamber had already passed a bill this month that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials about human rights abuses against the Muslim minorities.
Trump, who had praised repeatedly Xi’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the beginning, has gone up in the last few opportunities to criticize the president of China directly. During a Fox News town hall event on May 3, Trump describes Xi as a “great” leader with whom he had a good relationship.
Some wacko in China just released a statement blaming the other of China for the Virus that has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. Please, explain to this drug that was the “incompetence of China”, and nothing more, that made this mass all over the World killing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump accused “some wacko in China” on Twitter to deflect the responsibility for the spread of the coronavirus, without elaborating. He accused China of “mass throughout the World, the murder”.
Although it was not clear that Trump was referring to in any tweet, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s Global Times newspaper, denounced Trump administration officials WeChat Wednesday as “political hooligans” who do not care about the lives of more than 100,000 Americans. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian — the person who most obviously fit Trump’s “spokesperson” description — adhere closely to the custom of talking points in your agency’s regular briefing on Wednesday.
Hu fought against Trump’s “wacko” comment in a tweet later, saying, “I’ve never heard of a crazy guy in China to make this statement” and the speculation that the person is “fiction.” He later said Chinese internet users wanted that it would be re-elected, saying that he promotes “unity in China”, and makes the international news, “as funny as a comedy.”
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