This is such an inane deflection of responsibility. Truly, the goal is simply to appeal to the lowest common denominator by basically going full “slant-eyed commie rats!”
I wish this wasn’t putting me in the same position as people who are being politically correct and whining about “Chinese virus.” But Trump really screwed this up, and blaming it on China is dumb. He should go out and say the virus was manufactured by the Jews.
AFP:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday demanded that China share more data on the novel coronavirus as Beijing angrily accused him of lying and said Washington was trying to shift blame.
It was the latest clash in an escalating feud between the two powers over the global COVID-19 pandemic, which was first detected in the Chinese metropolis Wuhan but has now infected more than 250,000 people worldwide and hobbled life in the West.
Pompeo — who, like President Donald Trump, has enraged Beijing by speaking of the “Chinese virus” — said Beijing had a “special obligation” to scientists due to its early knowledge of the illness.
“This is not about retribution,” Pompeo told reporters at the White House.
“We need to make sure that even today, the data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are made available to the Chinese Communist Party, are made available to the whole world. It’s an imperative to keep people safe.”
This is just dumb.
China is publishing all kinds of data, publicly. If he wants specific data, he should ask for it, and the Chinese will give it to him.
China is being really forthcoming about everything here.
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