As Washington’s mistrust and hostility towards Beijing increases, calls for China to be more aggressive in hitting back have been growing.
Donald Trump’s latest attack on China over the Covid-19 outbreak should serve as a reminder to Beijing of the difficult road that lies ahead if it wants to repair relations, analysts have warned.
In recent days the two sides have scaled back their rhetoric and stopped pointing the finger at each other over the handling of the crisis. Victor Gao, a vice-president of the Centre for China and Globalisation, a Beijing-based think-tank, said it was “not meaningful” to guess what Trump would do next, adding there was no justification for “Trump or whichever politician in the United States” to blame China.
Hu suggested that China should export emergency medical equipment directly to state governments in the US and withhold exports to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a way of weakening Trump’s position against Democratic state governors such as Andrew Cuomo in New York.Coronavirus: Donald Trump says he discussed Wuhan laboratory connection with Xi JinpingMeanwhile, China is attempting to reach out to Americans who take a more conciliatory stance.
While details of the discussions were not published, a brief statement said the two sides had called on US and China to enhance cooperation to “jointly handle global challenges such as the coronavirus outbreak and climate change”.
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