WASHINGTON: Suddenly, it's no longer the 'Wuhan virus.' The United States and China have reached a truce in a vitriolic feud over the coronavirus ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with US President Donald Trump as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka in June 2019. AFP/Brendan SmialowskiThe United States and China have reached a truce in a vitriolic feud over the coronavirus pandemic, with the two powers each seeing at least a tactical interest in cooling down.
Beijing infuriated the United States last month when a foreign ministry spokesman spread a conspiracy theory that US troops brought the virus to Wuhan.Cui Tiankai, China's gentlemanly ambassador to Washington, struck a highly different tone in an op-ed in The New York Times in which he spoke of his affection for Americans and promised China would do"whatever it can to support the United States.
"Washington certainly does not want to alienate Beijing to the point that it bans the sale of medical equipment to the United States," said Elizabeth Economy, director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She doubted that the newfound tone would improve the rest of the relationship, which was already tense before the pandemic.
For China, the goal is to"keep Trump calm and to try to prevent unnecessary damage from taking place, and keeping that channel open between you and Trump," said Douglas Paal, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. But Paal was struck by an overall positive portrayal in Chinese state media of Joe Biden, the likely Democratic nominee.
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