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Donald Trump Warns China Of Severe Consequences For Covid-19 Pandemic

US President Donald Trump has threatened China of severe consequences if Beijing was “knowingly responsible” for the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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“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 told reporters at a daily briefing. According to Trump, the relationship between Washington and Beijing before the start of the pandemic was constructive.

Washington has consistently blamed China for a lack of clarity after the coronavirus broke out late last year in its city of Wuhan. Trump administration later halted aid to the World Health Organisation blaming it of being “China-centric”.

Ties between the US and China have been tense over the pandemic. Relations further tumbled when Donald Trump tweeted that the US will help industries that are particularly affected by “the Chinese virus.”

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Although the US president has previously called the coronavirus a “foreign virus,” this is the first time he used phrasing that pointedly draws attention to the outbreak’s geographic origins.

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