Former vice-president says US leader 'put his trust in China's leaders' instead of health experts. FMTNews
Former Vice-President Joe Biden participates in a Democratic presidential debate in Washington last month.
A pro-Trump political action committee, America First Action, on Thursday unveiled US$10 million in new attack ads against Biden in the battleground states Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, casting the former vice-president as friendly to China’s ruling Communist Party, while highlighting Trump’s decision in January to ban travel from the country after the coronavirus outbreak started there.
Biden said Trump ended funding for a program created under the Obama-Biden administration to track emergency infectious diseases, cut Centers of Disease Control and Prevention experts in China by two-thirds, and left empty a slot for an American official within China’s disease control agency.
“These are flat out dictators. Period. And they should be called for it, straight up,” Biden said at the time.
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