The United States and China, on
Tuesday, clashed over the COVID-19 pandemic at the United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA).
President Donald Trump, in his
pre-recorded video message, referred to coronavirus as “China virus”
“We must hold accountable the
nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China. In the earliest days
of the virus, China locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to
leave China and infect the world.”
He said China condemned his
travel ban on their country, but cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens
at homes.
Trump insisted that China and the
World Health Organisation (WHO) deliberately misled the world on COVID-19 mode
of transmission.
He accused them of “falsely”
declaring that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
“Later, they falsely said people
without symptoms would not spread the disease. The United Nations must hold
China accountable for their actions,” Trump reiterated.
Responding, Chinese ambassador to
the UN, Zhang Jun, declared that China would not be cowed by America’s “bully
tactics.”
The envoy accused Trump of using
the UNGA General Debate to spread his “political virus.”.
“We strongly and totally reject
the baseless accusation against China. No matter what others say, we support
multilateralism and the UN to play its central role in international affairs,”
Jun said.
In his remarks earlier, UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, observed the escalating tensions between
the world powers.
The UN chief called it a “new
Cold War” that was moving the world in a dangerous direction.
“Our world cannot afford a future
where the two largest economies split the globe in a Great Fracture, each with
its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence
capacities”, Guterres said.
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