'I have a very good relationship (with Xi), but I just – right now I don't want to speak to him,' Trump said.
US President Donald Trump further hardened his rhetoric towards China on Thursday, saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he might cut ties over the rival superpower's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"If you did, what would happen?" Trump asked."You'd save $500 billion if you cut off the whole relationship." But Trump doubled down, insisting:"They could have stopped it. They could have stopped it in China where it came from. But it didn't happen that way."US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also took aim at Beijing on Thursday.
Last Friday, Vice Premier Liu He, who led China's negotiations, spoke by phone with Washington's top negotiators and confirmed that both sides agreed to implement the first phase of the deal. Beijing strongly rejected the accusation, calling it a smear attempt -- just as it has forcefully rejected the US accusation that the virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
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