National security adviser Robert O'Brien compared China's handling of the pandemic to the Soviet Union's response to Chernobyl
China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic is akin to the Soviet Union's response to Chernobyl, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, said Sunday.
"The cover-up that they did of the virus is going to go down in history along with Chernobyl," O'Brien Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. "We'll see an HBO special about 10 or 15 years from now."Asked about the implications of the pandemic for the new U.S.-China trade deal, O'Brien replied that "we're in a very different world" from when negotiations first began.
"We want good relations with China and with the Chinese people, but unfortunately, we're seeing just action after action by the Chinese Communist Party that makes it difficult," O'Brien said. "With respect to the trade deal, we'll see if they live up to it, but we're dealing in a new world now with corona."
"They unleashed a virus on the world that's destroyed trillions of dollars in American economic wealth that we're having to spend to keep our economy alive, to keep Americans afloat during this virus."
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