{"id":24021,"date":"2020-04-19T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=24021"},"modified":"2020-04-19T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T03:38:44","slug":"trump-warns-china-of-consequences-if-found-responsible-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24021","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns China of consequences if found responsible for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington:<\/strong> US President Donald Trump has warned China of consequences if it was \u201cknowingly responsible\u201d for the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nTrump, who as expressed his disappointment over handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by China, alleged non-transparency and initial non-cooperation with the US on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences,\u201d he told reporters at a White House news conference on Saturday. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about, you know, potentially lives like nobody\u2019s seen since 1917.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said his relationship with China was very good till the time the deadly COVID-19 swept the world.<br \/>\n\u201cThe relationship was good when we were signing that, but then, all of a sudden, you hear about this. So, it\u2019s a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, the question was asked would you be angry at China. Well, the answer very well might be a very resounding yes, but it depends,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The president underlined that there was a big difference between a mistake that got out of control or something done deliberately.<br \/>\n\u201cIn either event, they should have let us go in. You know, we asked to go in very early and they didn\u2019t want us in. I think they knew it was something bad and I think they were embarrassed,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that China was pitching for former vice president Joe Biden, who is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf sleepy Joe Biden wins, China will own the United States,\u201d Trump said, adding that his administration had gained billions of dollars from China due to his assertive trade policies.<br \/>\nThe president said the coronavirus crisis had hurt everybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the greatest economy in the world by far. China isn\u2019t even close. Go back two months. And we\u2019re going to keep it that way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asserted that Iran was now a much different country than it was before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first came in, Iran was going to take over the entire Middle East,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now, they just want to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned China of consequences if it was \u201cknowingly responsible\u201d for the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Trump, who as expressed his disappointment over handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by China, alleged non-transparency and initial non-cooperation with the US on this issue. \u201cIf they were knowingly responsible, yeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}