Since President Trump returned to the White House after being treated for coronavirus, the president has ramped up his rhetoric towards China, blaming Beijing for the pandemic.
In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Trump said China “will pay a big price for what they did to the world, and to us.” Thursday’s video followed a similar one posted by the president on Wednesday, where he made the same threat, that China will “pay a big price” for the virus.
In an interview with Fox Business on Thursday, the president continued the theme. “They want to keep me happy,” Trump said, referring to the Chinese government. “Because they know that I’m a hair-trigger when it comes to them and I’m sick of them. Everything that we have — we have that Covid, the China virus — because of them. You look back at other infections that we’ve gotten because of them — this isn’t the first time.”
Vice President Mike Pence echoed Trump’s sentiment on Wednesday night during his debate with Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. “China is to blame for the coronavirus, and President Trump is not happy about it, he’s made that very clear and made clear again today,” Pence said.
The South China Morning Post said China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to comment on Trump’s threats. The Post also pointed out that there was almost no coverage of the president’s warnings in Chinese state media. Chinese officials have taken a more diplomatic approach to the US in recent weeks in the face of hostile rhetoric from the Trump administration.
The pandemic put the administration’s hawkish China policies into hyper-drive. This year, the US has taken action against Beijing over issues in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea.
the only price china will pay is selling their US treasuries quickly —before the USD reduces to the value of an Argentine peso
China was only 10-times as competent in their covid response as the US was. They also had only about 1% as much warning on what they were dealing with as the US did. Unless Trump is saying covid is a bioweapon, which our scientists have already ruled out.
Perhaps Gaia saw all the erratic and dysfunctional regimes around the world and found a formula of life to restore balance. Just don’t tell Trump that though, or he’ll nuke every corner of the globe instead of just China.
Will this be before or after Mexico pays for the border wall ?
“Because they know that I’m a hair-trigger when it comes to them and I’m sick of them.”
That is disturbing. Exactly what is he talking about when he says “hair trigger”? Put a muzzle on the moron.
While China was cracking down, Trump was letting them all in without testing or quarantine because the stock market.
He wouldn’t have done a damn thing if Navarro hadn’t come back from China and spilled the beans about the virus. And he was furious with Navarro for doing so.
He knew before the Chinese did, as did Israel and NATO, as an Israeli paper confirmed. That is, if the Intelligence did not keep him in the dark.
So when did the Chinese know? Satellite imagery and search engine statistics indicate that the pandemic was in full swing there by August of last year.
So Trump did SOMETHING right, then? If I hadn’t already voted, I’d be keeping that in mind.
In the same breath he said it was a god-send.