{"id":2955,"date":"2020-04-30T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:59:32","slug":"exclusive-trump-says-china-wants-lose-bid-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/exclusive-trump-says-china-wants-lose-bid-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Trump says China wants him to lose his bid for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China\u2019s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing \u201cwill do anything they can\u201d to make him lose his re-election bid in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>seemore:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/covid-19-complication-seen-children-rare-says.html\">COVID-19 complication seen in children is \u2018rare\u2019, WHO says<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/amazon-city-resorts-mass-graves-brazil-covid-19-deaths-soar.html\">Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil COVID-19 deaths soar<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump has been heaping blame on China for a global pandemic that has killed at least 60,000 people in the United States according to a Reuters tally, and thrown the U.S. economy into a deep recession, putting in jeopardy his hopes for another four-year term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Republican president, often accused of not acting early enough to prepare the United States for the spread of the virus, said he believed China should have been more active in letting the world know about the coronavirus much sooner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked whether he was considering the use of tariffs or even debt write-offs for China, Trump would not offer specifics. \u201cThere are many things I can do,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cChina will do anything they can to have me lose this race,\u201d said Trump. He said he believes Beijing wants his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, to win the race to ease the pressure Trump has placed on China over trade and other issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey\u2019re constantly using public relations to try to make it like they\u2019re innocent parties,\u201d he said of Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the trade deal that he concluded with Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at reducing chronic U.S. trade deficits with China had been \u201cupset very badly\u201d by the economic fallout from the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Wednesday that an informal \u201ctruce\u201d in the war of words that Trump and Xi essentially agreed to in a phone call in late March now appeared to be over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two leaders had promised that their governments would do everything possible to cooperate to contain the coronavirus. In recent days, Washington and Beijing have traded increasingly bitter recriminations over the origin of the virus and the response to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Trump and his top aides, while stepping up their anti-China rhetoric, have stopped short of directly criticizing Xi, who the U.S. president has repeatedly called his \u201cfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump also said South Korea has agreed to pay the United States more money for a defense cooperation agreement but would not be drawn out on how much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe can make a deal. They want to make a deal,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019ve agreed to pay a lot of money. They\u2019re paying a lot more money than they did when I got here\u201d in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States stations roughly 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in an armistice, rather than a peace treaty.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump is leading a triage effort to try to keep the U.S. economy afloat through stimulus payments to individuals and companies while nudging state governors to carefully reopen their states as new infections decline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump sounded wistful about the strong economy that he had enjoyed compared with now, when millions of people have lost their jobs and GDP is faltering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe were rocking before this happened. We had the greatest economy in history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he is happy with the way many governors are operating under the strain of the virus but said some need to improve. He would not name names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump\u2019s handling of the virus has come under scrutiny. Forty-three percent of Americans approved of Trump\u2019s handling of the coronavirus, according to the Reuters\/Ipsos poll from April 27-28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But there was some good coronavirus news, as Gilead Sciences Inc said its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir was showing progress in treating virus victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump has also seeking an accelerated timetable on development of a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think things are moving along very nicely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China\u2019s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing \u201cwill do anything they can\u201d to make him lose his re-election bid in November. seemore: COVID-19 complication seen in children is \u2018rare\u2019, WHO says Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil COVID-19 deaths soar Trump has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}