US$2 bil virus response from China paltry sum, says Pompeo

US estimates the cost of damage done due to pandemic could be US$9 trillion. FMTNews US

US secretary of state urges Xi Jinping to hold a news conference where reporters are free to ask any questions.

Pompeo rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping’s claim that Beijing had acted with transparency after the outbreak in China, and said if Xi wanted to show that, he should hold a news conference and allow reporters to ask him anything they liked. US-China tensions have spiked in recent weeks, with Pompeo and President Donald Trump slamming Beijing’s handling of the outbreak.At a time when many nations worldwide are urging for unity and cooperation to ramp up the fight against the virus, Trump has proposed quitting the World Health Organization over its response and called it a “puppet of China,” while Xi has pledged it US$2 billion.

“Cost of pandemic could be as much as US$9 trillion, according to our estimates, cost imposition on the world of the Chinese Communist Party’s failures.”

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