Donald Trump has strongly criticized China’s inability to control the spread of the virus. (Archive photo)
Washington:
On Friday, the United States would announce “certain decisions” on China, said President Donald Trump, stressing that Beijing should have stopped the coronavirus at the source.
Led by the United States, several countries around the world have accused China of the spread of the coronavirus and its failure to provide timely information on the disease, resulting in the death of more than three lakhs and causing an economic crisis without previous.
Trump has urged China to accept an investigation into the origin of the virus, including the allegation that it emerged from a bio-laboratory in the central city of Wuhan in China.
The disease has killed nearly 360,000 people worldwide, including 102,000 in America alone.
Over 5.8 million people have been infected with COVID-19 worldwide, including 1.7 million in the United States alone.
“Tomorrow we are going to have a press conference on China. So we will make some decisions and discuss them tomorrow,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday.
“This is a very sad situation. It should never have happened. China should have stopped it at the source, but they did not do it,” said Trump.
In recent weeks, Trump has been very critical of China’s failure to control the spread of the new coronavirus on its territory. He has so far given no indication of the measures he plans to take against China.
On May 14, Trump threatened to “cut off all ties” with China.
On May 16, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Trump would decide the way to penalize China, one day after Trump said he did not want to speak to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the moment.
However, China has rejected all of the US cover-up allegations regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.
Meanwhile, in a separate context, several American senators have sent a letter to the permanent representatives of the United Nations for Estonia and France, the current and future president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), to the support for the United States’ call for an immediate appeal UNSC meeting on the recent measures taken by the Chinese government to undermine the autonomy of Hong Kong.
“As the current and incoming president of the UNSC, we write to strongly support USUN’s call for an immediate meeting of the UNSC on the recent measures taken by the Chinese government to undermine and undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy. to the rights and freedoms promised to the people of Hong Kong, “the senators wrote in the letter.
China presented its controversial Hong Kong national security bill last week in Hong Kong to tighten Beijing’s control over the former British colony, which could be the greatest blow to autonomy and personal liberties of the territory since 1997, the date on which he arrived. under Chinese rule.
Hong Kong, an economic power, is a special administrative region (SAR) of China. He has followed a “one country, two systems” policy since Britain surrendered sovereignty to China on July 1, 1997, which has given her certain freedoms that the rest of China does not have.
In the past few days, the United States has expressed concern over and has taken action against the new Chinese law on Hong Kong.
