President Trump told the U.N. General Assembly it ‘must hold China accountable for their actions’ related to the coronavirus pandemic
NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having “unleashed” COVID-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse him of “lies” and abusing the U.N. platform to provoke confrontation.
Trump, facing a November re-election battle with the United States dealing with the world’s highest official number of deaths and infections from the coronavirus, focused his speech on attacking China. “Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease ... The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions.”The president promised to distribute a vaccine and said: “We will defeat the virus, and we will end the pandemic.”Xi’s address contained what appeared to be an implicit rebuke to Trump, calling for a global response to the coronavirus and a leading role for the WHO, which the U.S. president has announced plans to leave.
The U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000 on Monday, by far the highest official number of any country.
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