The Guardian: Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak as Europe approaches 100,000 deaths
President said there should be consequences if Beijing was ‘knowingly responsible’ for pandemic.
Donald Trump has warned that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic, as deaths in Europe from Covid-19 approached 100,000.
“It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it,” Trump said in his daily White House briefing, as US cases topped 730,000 and fatalities in the country approached 39,000.
“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, I mean, then sure there should be consequences,” Trump said. He did not elaborate on what form that might take.
He said the Chinese were “embarrassed” and the question now was whether what happened with the coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
“There’s a big difference between those two,” he said.
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WNU Editor: Almost 2.4 million Covid-19 cases worldwide and climbing upwards. A death toll approaching 100,000 in Europe, with over 40,000 deaths in the U.S.. There are questions that China needs to answer. Their policy of denial, silencing their own researchers, restricting international specialists, and the destruction of records is not going to endear them to anyone.
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Comrade Xi uses the president as his plaything. He amuses him.
The west is decadent, weak. A tasty road apple for China to devour.
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More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.
---A number of CDC staff members are regularly detailed to work at the WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.
---The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s assertion that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.
---The administration has also sharply criticized the Chinese government for withholding information.
---But the president, who often touts a personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is reluctant to inflict damage on a trade deal with Beijing, appears to view the WHO as a more defenseless target.
Many had wondered what would happen when Donald Trump, failed salesman and gameshow host, faced a real crisis. Now they know. The man who pledged to stop “American carnage” in his inaugural address now owns it. Covid-19 has crowned him lord of misrule.
That’s fitting for a man who last week claimed to exercise “total authority”. Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor who understands what leadership means, reminded him the US does not do kings. But Trump and America’s last monarch, George III, share much in common, tyranny-wise.
Trump is more instinctive dictator than democrat, in the style of his favourite potentate, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Just look at his recent threat to shut down Congress, and his enthusiasm for suppressing minority voter turnout.
It’s worth recalling that old King George became mentally ill, since Trumpism is clearly dangerous for your health. It’s beyond reasonable dispute that his coronavirus posturing, preening, prevarication and paranoia fatally hindered the early US response.
First, China was handling the coronavirus outbreak “really well.” Then, China was to blame for letting the “Chinese virus” spread. Now, China has “very much stepped up” its purchases of American goods amid a “difficult time.”
Next? Who knows.
Since January, President Donald Trump has wavered repeatedly on China’s culpability for the coronavirus pandemic, a tactic his outside advisers say is helping counteract Chinese propaganda, creating a 2020 reelection argument and protecting years of on-again-off-again trade negotiations with the Asian power. To his critics, it’s merely a typical Trump attempt to shift blame.
It’s the latest iteration of a dynamic that has played out over the three years that Trump has managed America’s relationship with China. Armed with the conflicting views of his closest advisers, the president has regularly flip-flopped between lavishing praise on China and its leader, Xi Jinping, and lashing out at the country over trade practices.
Lapides the shill doesn't disappoint!
Andrew Cuomo understands what leadership means..." due in large part to his utter incompetency NY leads the world in deaths to this thing. He has been particularly tyrannical during this whole thing while accomplishing nothing.
To him, leadership appears to be speak before a fawning press regularly, blame Trump for his incompetence, push for even more draconian shutdowns, rinse and repeat like the tyrant he desires to be. This is not a good man bor is he a good leader. For true and honorable leadership I'd suggest looking to the governor of South Dakota and not the thug wanna be tyrant who is governor of NY.
China also not just silences research BUT they pay a lot of money to any university's research team(s) that are willing to put forward a hypothesis the virus did not break out in Wuhan. Cambridge University - which has perhaps the most Chinese students in Europe - is now also writing up a paper on this.. ahhhhhh how money bends truth. That alone is a natural phenomenon worth writing about
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