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Ouch! Trump threatening WHO to cover up his incompetence by blaming others
– Beijing
19 May, 2020
The US’ threat to withdraw from the UN’s health body is just the latest
attempt by the Trump administration to smear China’s fight against Covid-19
and shift the blame for the damage done by the virus, Beijing has said.
US President Donald Trump gave the World Health Organization (WHO) 30 days
to enact “major substantive improvements” or face permanent defunding and
a possible withdrawal by the US. The ultimatum came in an open letter, which
accused the WHO of bowing down to China during its response to the Covid-19
outbreak. Beijing called the US’ move an attempt to slander it.
The letter “is filled with phrases of suggestions, maybes, and
potentialities, and is trying to mislead the public through this specious
method, to achieve the goal of smearing and slandering China’s efforts in
epidemic prevention and to shift responsibility in its own incompetence in
handling the epidemic," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian told
reporters during a regular briefing on Tuesday.
Top officials in the Trump administration have subscribed to the theory that
the coronavirus pandemic started as a leak from a virology laboratory in
Wuhan, the city where the outbreak was first detected. While Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo said there was “abundant evidence” to support the claim,
the public is yet to see any direct proof.
Washington also claims that Beijing has deliberately underreported the
severity of the infection and had the WHO cover it up on its behalf,
allowing the virus to spread all over the world. The disease hit the US
hardest among the world’s nations, with the death toll rising above 90,000
this week. Critics of President Trump have accused him of botching the
government’s response to the epidemic. |
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