In a
press conference on Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, said that US has
been infected by a ‘political virus’,
and warned the US forces from using the coronavirus pandemic to push both the
nations "on the brink of a new Cold War". “It has come to our attention that
some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage and
pushing our two countries to the brink of a new Cold War," he told
reporters during China's week-long annual parliament session.
Chinese
Foreign Minister slammed US for politicisation of a global health emergency and
outrightly promoting the so called conspiracy theories, which said that the deadly virus which causes
Covid-19 was built in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. He accused US politicians
of "fabricating rumours" about the virus origin and
"stigmatising China".
According
to the Washington Post, Wang said, “China
has no intention to change, still replace, the United States. It is time for the
United States to give up its wishful thinking of changing China and stopping
1.4 billion people in their historic march toward modernization.”
Wang also
offered to diffuse the increasing tensions between two of the world’s largest economies. He said,”China is open to working with the
international scientific community to look into the source of the virus...At
the same time, we believe that this should be professional, fair and
constructive."
Wing’s press conference was in a way China’s official response to US
President Donald Trump’s recent statement, wherein he openly criticised China over its handling
of coronavirus and hinted at cutting-off ties with the Communist nation. Trump
during an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast, about two weeks ago,
said that he was very disappointed with China’s failure to control coronavirus outbreak, which
turned into a pandemic.
His statement was believed to impact the ongoing trade deal with Beijing, which
was nearing completion.
US
President said, “They should have never let this
happen. So 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.”
When
asked about his next move against China,
Trump said: “There are many things we could do …
We could cut off the whole
relationship.”
He added
that cutting ties would help US save $500bn, the amount of goods US annually imports from China.
Relations between US and China have been
strained since the beginning of trade war, about two years ago and from thereon
it only grew from bad to worse. It downgraded to worst with the pandemic
outbreak as there emerged vicious conspiracy theories targeted against each
other.
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