President Donald Trump has stopped referring to pandemic as the China virus. FMTNews Covid19 DonaldTrump
Ever since a March 26 phone call with Xi, Trump has held back on criticising Beijing’s response to virus. The United States and China have reached a truce in a vitriolic feud over the coronavirus pandemic, with the two powers each seeing at least a tactical interest in cooling down.
Beijing infuriated the US last month when a foreign ministry spokesman spread a conspiracy theory that US troops brought the virus to Wuhan. But with medical supplies in dangerously short supply, Trump also needs China, which produces half of the imported masks in the US. She doubted that the newfound tone would improve the rest of the relationship, which was already tense before the pandemic.
Paal, a former Asia adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush, said that China also had an eye on US elections in November.
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