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Chinese President Xi Jinping (left), who visited the United States as vice president in 2012, is showing his friendship with the current US ambassador to China, Terry Branstad. EPA = Yonhap News
US Ambassador to China Terry Brandstad, who is about to retire next month, criticized China for the global pandemic of novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), saying: “It could have been suppressed in Wuhan, China, but (due to the bad response) it became a global pandemic. ” They also spoke of the crackdown on Uighurs in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea, for which China regrets.
Ambassador Branstad said in an interview with CNN on the 18th (local time), “China concealed the (Corona 19) outbreak and even punished medical personnel who pointed it out in the early days.” Empowered.
The Chinese government has denied that the Corona 19 outbreak is in Wuhan, and has refuted the point that it failed to respond well at the initial stage.
He also said: “In cooperation and support with China, not only the United States, but the interest of the world has decreased considerably.” He also pointed to the growing tensions between the borders of China and India, adding: “What China did to India, which was a neutral country, really caused problems.”
Ambassador Brandtard, who took office in December 2016 as Ambassador to China, was originally regarded as a ‘friend’ to the United States. In the 1980s, Chinese President Xi Jinping had known and had friendly relations since he was a local bureaucracy, and when President Xi visited the United States as vice president in 2012, he met and welcomed him.
At the time of Branstad’s appointment, the Chinese government welcomed him as “an old friend of China,” but CNN said: “His tenure was the most difficult period in US-China relations.” I could not ‘.
When asked if he should run for President Trump’s re-election field, he said, “I just retired from the ambassador” and said, “If the president asks, I’ll do it like I did in 2016 (at the time of the presidential election) “. Ambassador Branstad’s son Eric serves as a senior advisor to the joint fundraising committees of the Trump Camp and the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Reporter Go Seok-hyun [email protected]
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