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In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump accused China of allowing the virus to leave the country and infect the rest of the world.
The speech was made on a prerecorded video that was played before the meeting; Due to the risk of infection, all the leaders did so at the UN meeting.
Trump believes that China only looked after its own interests when the virus first appeared in Wuhan last year.
UN warns of tensions between China and the United States
The president also claimed that the World Health Organization “practically controlled by China” and that China, along with the WHO, had lied about the infection. In July, the United States submitted an application to leave the WHO.
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, warned during the opening of the meeting of tensions between the United States and China:
– We must do everything possible to avoid a new cold war.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his speech that no one should make politics on corona infection. He also said that China “had no intention” of starting a new Cold War.
