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The United Nations General Assembly in New York has become another battleground of tension between China and the United States. The president of the United States, Trump, declared in his speech on Tuesday (22) that China should be responsible for the global spread of the new corona virus. Chinese President Xi Jinping said China has no intention of starting a cold war with any country.
Trump said in a prerecorded speech that China should “take responsibility” for the epidemic. On that day, the death toll caused by the new corona virus in the United States passed the 200,000 mark.
Xi Jinping addressed the UN General Assembly on the same day and said China “has no intention of waging a cold war with any country.”
This year’s United Nations General Assembly takes place primarily online, and heads of state will deliver speeches in the form of recorded videos.
This also means that heads of state and delegations cannot communicate face to face. Yet even without live debates, the smell of gunpowder between China and the United States still spreads.
Recently, Sino-US relations have fallen to the historic freezing point of establishing diplomatic relations more than 40 years ago, with mutual restrictions on technology, education and trade.
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Trump’s speech was reduced from 40 minutes in previous years to 6 minutes. He mainly spoke about his government’s political achievements and attacks on China.
“We must ask the country that spread the disease to the world to take responsibility, and that is China,” he said.
“In the early days of the virus, China banned domestic travel but still allowed flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban in our country, even though they canceled domestic flights and locked up their citizens at home “.
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As the US elections approach, the Trump administration’s response to the epidemic has been criticized by the outside world, while he himself frequently criticized Beijing for covering up the epidemic, saying the Chinese government should have stopped the spread. of the epidemic. The Chinese government claimed that these comments were not factual.
BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan analyzed that Trump is about to face an election in 40 days. Her statement pitted national voters in an attempt to divert attention from her government’s response to the epidemic. While blaming China, Emphasize America’s efforts in vaccine development. The president declared that the development of the vaccine in the United States has reached the final stage.
In his speech, Trump again accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of being controlled by China and spreading false information about the virus. The United States government has announced its withdrawal from the International Health Organization and divestment.
Shortly after Trump’s speech, Xi Jinping called in his speech to “abandon ideological disputes and cross the trap of civilizational conflicts.”
At the 75th anniversary meeting of the United Nations on Monday, he said: “Unilateralism has no way out”; “No country has the power to take charge of international affairs, dominate the destiny of other countries and monopolize the advantages of development, much less go its own way in the world, participate in hegemony, intimidation and domination.”
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Trump gave a video speech in an empty conference room
UN Secretary General António Guterres did not name specific countries, but warned that “we must do everything possible to avoid a new cold war.”
He said the world is heading in a “very dangerous direction.” “Our world cannot have such a future. The two largest economies have divided the world into two halves, causing huge gaps. Both parties have their own commercial, financial, Internet and artificial intelligence capabilities.”
