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Trump downplays chances of new China trade deal
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IANS | 11 Jul, 2020
US President Donald Trump has downplayed chances of a new China trade
deal as he slammed the Asian giants handling of the coronavirus
pandemic, the media reported.
Addressing reporters aboard Air
Force One on Friday, the President said that the US' relationship with
China has been "severely damaged", adding that he has "other things in
mind" than a second trade agreement, known as phase two, Politico news
reported.
"They could have stopped the plague, they could have
stopped it, they didn't stop it," he said, referring to the pandemic,
which had first emerged in China's Wuhan city last December.
"They
stopped it from going into the remaining portions of China from
Wuhan... They could have stopped the plague, they didn't," the President
was quoted as saying in the Politico news report.
In January,
Trump had signed the phase one trade deal with China that focused on
increasing US exports of agricultural, energy and other products.
This is not the first time Trump has slammed China over the pandemic.
In recent weeks, Trump has described COVID-19 "kung flu" and the "Chinese virus".
Top administration officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have called it the "Wuhan virus".
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US Dollar
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