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Trump Casts Doubt On ‘accuracy’ Of Chinese Coronavirus Figures by Litesloaded: 5:37am On Apr 02, 2020 |
nited States President, Donald Trump, cast doubt Wednesday on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence report, accused Beijing of a cover up. “How do we know” if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press conference. “Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side.” READ COMPLETE NEWS AT: https://www.litesloaded.com.ng/trump-casts-doubt-on-accuracy-of-chinese-coronavirus-figures/
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Re: Trump Casts Doubt On ‘accuracy’ Of Chinese Coronavirus Figures by ademasta(m): 5:45am On Apr 02, 2020 |
Wetin concern you, lower your own you are topping the league table already. 1 Like |
Re: Trump Casts Doubt On ‘accuracy’ Of Chinese Coronavirus Figures by bestpunterever: 5:46am On Apr 02, 2020 |
President Donald Trump cast doubt Wednesday on the
accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus
outbreak after US lawmakers, citing an intelligence
report, accused Beijing of a cover up.
"How do we know" if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press
conference. "Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light
side."
Trump insisted that "the relationship with China's a good one"
and that he remained close to President Xi Jinping.
However, controversy around Beijing's transparency has
strained ties, adding to bad feelings triggered by a conspiracy
theory in China that the US military was to blame for the virus.
Republicans in Congress, pointing to a report by Bloomberg
citing US intelligence, expressed outrage that Beijing apparently
misled the international community on China's infections and
deaths that began in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan.
China's reporting has been intentionally incomplete, with some
intelligence officials describing Beijing's numbers as fake,
reported Bloomberg, which highlighted the classified intelligence
document sent to the White House last week.
China has publicly reported 82,361 confirmed cases and 3,316
deaths as of Wednesday, according to a rolling tracker by Johns
Hopkins University.
That compares to 206,207 cases and 4,542 deaths in the United
States, the country with the world's largest reported outbreak.
Republican Senator Ben Sasse attacked Beijing's numbers as
"garbage propaganda."
"The claim that the United States has more coronavirus deaths
than China is false," Sasse said in a statement.
"Without commenting on any classified information, this much is
painfully obvious: The Chinese Communist Party has lied, is
lying, and will continue to lie about coronavirus to protect the
regime."
In a statement responding to the report, Michael McCaul, top
Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said China
is "not a trustworthy partner" in the fight against COVID-19.
"They lied to the world about the human-to-human transmission
of the virus, silenced doctors and journalists who tried to report
the truth, and are now apparently hiding the accurate number of
people impacted by this disease," McCaul said.
He and other lawmakers have called on the State Department to
launch an investigation into what he called China's "cover up" of
the pandemic.
On Tuesday a member of Trump's coronavirus task force, doctor
Deborah Birx, said the medical community saw China's outbreak
as "serious but smaller than anyone expected because I think
probably we were missing a significant amount of the data." |
Re: Trump Casts Doubt On ‘accuracy’ Of Chinese Coronavirus Figures by walewriter: 6:18am On Apr 02, 2020 |
Who cares? People getting infected, and this one's trying to start a pissing contest with China. 1 Like |
Re: Trump Casts Doubt On ‘accuracy’ Of Chinese Coronavirus Figures by gnykelly(m): 7:40am On Apr 02, 2020 |
as you have promised that you will keep American first...now you are first on corona virus list you are still doubting your imaginary competitors 1 Like |
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