Chinese Foreign Ministry Accuses US Of Abusing ‘American People’s Trust’

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian speaks at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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BEIJING — China’s foreign ministry says U.S. authorities have failed to effectively fight the global coronavirus pandemic and “abused American people’s trust.”

Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian did not identify any officials by name but appeared to be firing back against accusations from the Trump administration that China mishandled or deliberately delayed releasing information about the outbreak first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.

U.S. officials were “engaged in political manipulation of buck-passing and shirking responsibilities,” Zhao said at a daily briefing Thursday. He dismissed discussion of legal action against the Chinese government as “frivolous” and said the U.S. should “focus more on fighting the epidemic and safeguarding the lives and health of the American people and stop playing such buck-passing game.”

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  1. You can tell how far we’ve dropped now that China is the one to try to support the American people. And to be fair, they probably are not entirely concerned about the American people, but more likely the fact that the US has let the world down.

  2. Well they are good teachers

  3. Buck passers on both sides. Why does the media pay any attention to either?

  4. I believe China over anything that the Trump administration has to say.

  5. Tell us something we don’t know.

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