United States President Donald Trump has actually stated China “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid, stepping up his criticism of Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a White Home interview with Reuters news firm, he stated Beijing faced a “lot” of possible consequences from the US for the outbreak.
He said China ought to have let the world understand about the contagion rather.
A representative for China’s foreign ministry has actually denied the accusations.
Geng Shuang said China saw the United States election as an internal problem, and said he hoped US political leaders would stop using China in their domestic politics.
Mr Trump himself is frequently accused of refraining from doing enough to take on the crisis.
The coronavirus has actually ravaged a formerly humming US economy that had been the president’s main selling point for his re-election campaign in November.
Mr Trump, who has actually waged a trade war with China, used no specifics about how he might act against Beijing.
He informed Reuters: “There are lots of things I can do. We’re trying to find what happened.”
Mr Trump included: “China will do anything they can to have me lose this race.”
The Republican president said he believes Beijing desires his most likely Democratic challenger Joe Biden to win in November’s election.
Mr Trump also stated he is sceptical of data suggesting Mr Biden would win.