"So the United States should stop thinking it can use tariffs as a weapon and a big stick to coerce other countries," she said. Trump said on Friday that raising tariffs on China was "certainly an option" as he considers ways to retaliate for the coronavirus pandemic. The United States has had 1.2 million infections and more than 71,000 deaths. Hua urged the United States not to try to divert attention from its own mismanagement of its coronavirus epidemic by shifting blame onto China. Hua said accusations that China deliberately spread the virus, as some US officials have speculated, were baseless.

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2020 10:07 UTC