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Coronavirus response: How Ted Cruz wants to 'fundamentally' change our relationship with China
The criticisms of China over its handling of the coronavirus have been ramping up for weeks.
In an interview with Yahoo Finance, influential Texas Senator Ted Cruz pushed for a series of investigations with an eye toward punishing China. At issue is its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has now infected more than 2 million people around the world.
The former presidential contender says that “for months and years to come after this crisis” the U.S. is going to be “reassessing and fundamentally changing the United States’ relationship with China.”
Cruz’s remarks came before the news emerged that the city of Wuhan was raising its death toll from the novel coronavirus by 50%. The about-face will almost surely further embolden China’s critics around the world.
Perhaps
the most controversial point in the interview was when Cruz brought up
the idea that the virus might have begun in a government lab in China.
“I'm not suggesting it was a deliberate release, but that it may have been an accidental release of the virus that they were studying in government labs,” Cruz said, adding, if it’s true, “there has to be real accountability if the Chinese government bears direct responsibility for the origin of this virus.”
(Read more)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/coronavirus-response-how-ted-cruz-wants-to-fundamentally-change-our-relationship-with-china-172049865.html
In an interview with Yahoo Finance, influential Texas Senator Ted Cruz pushed for a series of investigations with an eye toward punishing China. At issue is its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has now infected more than 2 million people around the world.
The former presidential contender says that “for months and years to come after this crisis” the U.S. is going to be “reassessing and fundamentally changing the United States’ relationship with China.”
Cruz’s remarks came before the news emerged that the city of Wuhan was raising its death toll from the novel coronavirus by 50%. The about-face will almost surely further embolden China’s critics around the world.
‘It may have been an accidental release’
“I'm not suggesting it was a deliberate release, but that it may have been an accidental release of the virus that they were studying in government labs,” Cruz said, adding, if it’s true, “there has to be real accountability if the Chinese government bears direct responsibility for the origin of this virus.”
(Read more)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/coronavirus-response-how-ted-cruz-wants-to-fundamentally-change-our-relationship-with-china-172049865.html
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