{"id":25478,"date":"2020-05-16T06:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/u-s-could-cut-ties-with-china-over-pandemic-warns-trump\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:47:57","slug":"u-s-could-cut-ties-with-china-over-pandemic-warns-trump-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25478","title":{"rendered":"U.S. could cut ties with China over pandemic, warns Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Washington imposes additional punitive measures against Huawei.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut ties with China over its role in the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), as the global death toll from the disease topped 3,00,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration also said on Friday that it would restrict the ability of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which it considers a national security risk, to develop semiconductors abroad with U.S. technology. \u201cThis announcement cuts off Huawei\u2019s efforts to undermine U.S. export controls,\u201d the Commerce Department said in a statement. The department said it would \u201cnarrowly and strategically target Huawei\u2019s acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain U.S. software and technology\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huawei has been under relentless pressure from the Washington, which has lobbied allies worldwide to avoid the company\u2019s telecom gear over security concerns. Washington last year said it would blacklist Huawei from the U.S. market and from buying crucial American components, though it has extended a series of reprieves to allow U.S. businesses that work with Huawei time to adjust. On Friday it extended this reprieve by another 90 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refugees at risk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite fears of a second wave of infections, national and local governments around the world are easing lockdown orders as they try to get stalled economies moving again. But there were warnings on Friday that some of the world\u2019s poorest people remain the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nexus of poverty and risk was highlighted by the discovery of cases in the world\u2019s biggest refugee camp, where upwards of a million Rohingya live in squalor. \u201cWe are looking at the very real prospect that thousands of people may die from COVID-19\u201d in these camps, Save The Children\u2019s Bangladesh health director Shamim Jahan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S., the man formerly charged with developing a vaccine told lawmakers the government in Washington has no \u201cmaster plan\u201d to fight the pandemic and is unprepared to distribute enough vaccines to immunise millions of Americans. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a single point of leadership right now for this response,\u201d said Rick Bright, who was removed from his job last month. The U.S. has registered almost 86,000 deaths linked to COVID-19 \u2014 the highest toll of any nation, with a third of all known global infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Very disappointed\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In an interview aired on Thursday, Mr. Trump again accused Beijing of concealing the true scale of the problem after the virus emerged in Wuhan late last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed in China. I will tell you that right now,\u201d he said. Asked how the United States might choose to retaliate, Mr. Trump said: \u201cWe could cut off the whole relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. and China are the world\u2019s two largest economies, doing hundreds of billions of dollars of mutually beneficial trade every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, the U.S. President is keen to make Beijing the bogeyman in an election year. New figures showed a further three million job losses, taking the newly unemployed to 36.5 million \u2014 more than 10% of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s treasury is also expecting a big hole in its budget, with around \u20ac100 billion euros wiped off the tax take in 2020. Europe\u2019s biggest economy has already slipped into a recession, with GDP expected to shrink by 6.3% this year \u2014 the biggest contraction since 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of Europe appears to be over the worst, with more parts of the continent opening up. Austria and Germany were expected to open their border on Friday, while Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were set to create their own \u201cmini-Schengen on the Baltic\u201d, allowing free movement among the three countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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