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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The President of the United States again made a controversial statement. He, in an exclusive interview on FOX News, said he was unwilling to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping and that he could have cut ties between the United States and China.
For this, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, gave an explanation. He said the point was that the United States really wanted China to provide a lot of information about the new coronavirus COVID-19.
According to him, Trump’s strong statement came because China did not give access to the US. USA To enter and find out what was happening. This disappointed Trump.
“The president is concerned,” he said, quoted by Reuters on Friday (05/15/2020).
Thus, Trump, he said, was reviewing many options on how U.S. relations with China would advance. He said that this problem was very difficult and complex.
“You are reviewing all of your options. Obviously, we are very concerned about the impact of this virus on the economy, American jobs, American public health, and the President will do everything possible to protect the economy and protect American workers,” he said. Mnuchin.
“They (China) won’t let us in, they won’t let us understand what’s going on, and the American public has a right to understand all the facts.”
The United States has been seriously affected by the spread of COVID-19. The country is now the country with the most crown cases, 1,454 million cases.
From Worldometers data to date, the US USA They registered 23,833 new cases. The death rate also increased by 1,612 in these 24 hours and killed a total of 86,809 people.
COVID-19 also affected the American economy. US employment data was released, jobless claims reached 2.98 million for the week ending May 9 yesterday.
This figure has dropped slightly compared to last week’s jobless claims by 3.18 million people. This leads to total unemployment in the US. USA To 36.5 million people who applied for unemployment insurance since March 2020.
Trump previously claimed to be disappointed with China. Because it could not contain the pandemic and it has implications for the trade peace agreement made in January 2020.
“They should not have allowed this to happen,” Trump said, quoted by Reuters.
“I made a great commercial deal and now I can say that I don’t feel the same. The ink dried and the plague came (COVID-19). It doesn’t seem the same to me.”
He went on to say that, currently, he did not want to speak to Xi Jinping. In fact, he said, he could do many things to “punish” China, including severing all relations that have been established.
“There are many things we can do. We can cut all relations (with China),” he emphasized.
He said that if the United States did that, it could save up to $ 500 billion. The figure refers to annual imports from the USA. USA From China.
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