China's ambassador to the U.S. slams Pres. Donald Trump for COVID-19 blame.
is very clear," Ambassador Cui Tiankai said."Everybody knew [early on] this is very dangerous."
But Trump and some of the nation’s top disease experts have blamed the Chinese government for initially hiding the most significant component of COVID-19: that it’s easily spread among humans. President Donald Trump participates in a signing event for an executive order on "hiring American" in a darkened Cabinet Room of the White House with curtains drawn and the lights low in Washington, Aug. 3, 2020.
Understanding the mode of transmission was"extremely important for our response to the virus, so that’s why we sent our national experts to Wuhan to determine whether this is transmitted among human beings," he said."And once they determined that this is transmitted among human beings, we had the Wuhan lockdown," sealing off about 12 million people from the rest of China and the world."So everybody knew this is very dangerous," he insisted.
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