Donald Trump has stepped up his anti-China rhetoric saying he was very disappointed over its failure to contain the novel coronavirus.
It’s now thought the US-China trade deal could be under threat.
As Washington and Beijing signed a Phase 1 trade deal in December, hailed by the Republican president as a major achievement, the COVID-19 outbreak broke out in Wuhan, China, and was spreading silently
In an interview broadcast on Fox Business Network the US President said:
“They should have never let this happen… I make a great trade deal and now I say this doesn’t feel the same to me. The ink was barely dry and the plague came over. And it doesn’t feel the same to me.”
Under the Phase 1 deal signed in January, Beijing pledged to buy at least $200 billion in additional US goods and services over two years while Washington agreed to roll back tariffs in stages on Chinese goods.
A Chinese state-run newspaper has reported that some government advisers in Beijing were urging fresh talks and possibly invalidating the agreement.
Trump said again he was not interested in renegotiating.
While US intelligence agencies said the virus did not appear to be manmade or genetically modified, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said early in May there is “a significant amount of evidence” the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan.
During the interview, Trump said the coronavirus outbreak showed the era of globalization was over.
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