US President Donald Trump returned to the White House from a military hospital.
Washington:
US President Donald Trump has warned that China will have to “pay a high price” for the spread of the coronavirus around the world.
Less than 50 hours after returning to the White House from a military hospital where he was treated for the deadly virus, Trump in a video posted to Twitter from the rose garden outside the Oval Office accused China of the spread global COVID-19 pandemic.
The deadly coronavirus originated in the city of Wuhan in central China at the end of last year and has spread around the world, killing 1054674 and infecting 36,077,017. The United States is the most affected country with 211,793 deaths and 7,549,429 infections.
“It’s not your fault that this happened. It was China’s fault. And China is going to pay a big price for what it did to this country. China is going to pay a big price. price for what she did to the It was China’s fault. Remember that, “Trump said in the video message.
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT! pic.twitter.com/uhLIcknAjT
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020
Although the president did not give details of the measures, in recent months the Trump administration has launched several actions against China, including imposing visa restrictions on ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) officials. . Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have also reached out to their counterparts around the world against China.
Donald Trump, 74, and First Lady Melania Trump, 50, tested positive for COVID-19 last week. The President was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment, while the First Lady remained in the White House. After four days, Trump was released from the hospital on Monday.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee released its final report on the origins of COVID-19 on Wednesday. “The big thing to remember should come as no surprise: China has actively lied to the World Health Organization and has done its best to cover up the virus,” said Congressman Brian Mast.
“China’s utter lack of transparency and mismanagement of the coronavirus epidemic has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of jobs and left indescribable economic destruction. Unfortunately, this is not new behavior for China. The CCP has a long history of manipulation and it is high time we held them accountable for their crimes. Together we must ensure that nothing like this ever happens again! ” he said.
Relations between Washington and Beijing have deteriorated since the appearance of the new coronavirus.
The two countries have also quarreled over China, imposing a new national security law in Hong Kong, restrictions on American journalists, the treatment of Uyghur Muslims and security measures in Tibet.
Meanwhile, US Senator Rick Scott, in a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged to immediately consider and pass his resolution condemning human rights abuses in China.
Stressing that more than a million Uyghurs are held in concentration camps in China and that Hong Kong residents are arrested and deprived of their promised basic rights, Scott in his resolution urged the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) to withdraw the 2022 China Games.
Congressman Brett Guthrie, one of the top Republicans on the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the House Republican Oversight and Investigations Committee, on Wednesday presented the “Beating China by Tapping the Airwaves national laws important for the 5G Act of 2020 “or the” Beat CHINA for 5G Act of 2020 “.
“The key to faster and more extensive Internet service is 5G technology. Innovators across the United States are working hard to harness this technology to deliver better internet quality to Americans – and we need to get this technology ahead of China. The Beat CHINA for 5G Act will provide the United States with access to spectrum, a critical resource needed for internet innovation, so that we can build this technology ourselves without depending on the Chinese, ”said Brett Guthrie.
