Posted on 04/29/2020 4:44:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING - A senior Chinese government official challenged President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., accusing him of wasting weeks after the threat posed by the virus first became apparent.
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News conducted in Mandarin on Tuesday, the official, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng, also hit back at the politicization of the virus.
Le, a rising star within the country's political establishment, rejected claims that China had covered up the initial outbreak or that it should be held financially liable for COVID-19. Instead, he termed the virus a "natural disaster" and called for greater cooperation and an end to accusations.
"On Jan. 23 when Wuhan went under lockdown, the United States reported only one confirmed case, but on March 13 when President Trump announced a national emergency, the United States reported over 1,600 confirmed cases," said Le, referring to the city in Hubei province where the virus is believed to have emerged.
"In this interval of 50 days, what was the U.S. government doing? Where have those 50 days gone?" said Le, a Russian speaker born on China's industrial east coast, who began his diplomatic career in what was then the Soviet Union.
Le stood by the country's official data and said China's response had been "fast" compared to other countries.
"I want to say China has not covered anything up. We did not cause any delay," said Le.
Le, 57 and widely considered a likely candidate to be China's next foreign minister, lived in New York when deployed to the United Nations in the late 1990s, offered his "heartfelt sympathy" to Americans fighting the crisis.
He urged greater cooperation between the two countries, stating that "the true enemy of the United States is the COVID-19 virus," not China.
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Here we go!
Red China and the Democrat Party allied against America.
At least it’s out in the open now.
“In this interval of 50 days, what was the U.S. government doing? “
Exact same talking point as the MSM.
Collusion!
Whether monstrous CCP secrecy unleashed this virus on the entire world and whether the US government in particular flubbed its response to the virus are separate questions.
The official narrative is going to be that Trump is solely responsible for the disaster we are in. The media and the democrats (but I repeat myself) are going to chant in unison that Trump is to blame. Giving them moral support will be the chinese and the iranians, who also hate Trump.
He must receive Maggie Haberman’s morning briefs.
Makes it easier to make the case for treason against the Democrats which will be confirmed with more exact evidence.
Tell it to Fauci...As late as Feb 29th, Fauci (the undisputed expert...cough, cough) was saying...don’t worry about it and don’t change a thing you’re doing.
ABC News 1945 headline:
“Senior Japanese official challenges FDR’s response to Pearl Harbor, says U.S. was harsh”
According to Q Anon, "The Plan" is going marvelously.
Whatever "The Plan" is.
I guess destroying the US economy, ruining livelihoods, and shattering the dreams of millions of Americans, while not arresting the Deep State coup plotters, is "The Plan."
And in Maggie Haberman’s briefs is not where you want to be!
That’s right. NBC is Comcast
Well one thing he was trying to do was to get our experts into Wuhan to examine the virus, but your government banned all outside experts from entering Wuhan.
Where’s the Marshall Plan to bring American manufacturing back from China?
And we don’t need to wait for our government to stop buying Made in China.
American consumers can take the lead.
Since the commies and WHO blatantly lied, we didn’t know what this was until Italy got bombarded. Period. F China. We need to destroy them.
Pot calling the kettle black
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