WASHINGTON, D. C.: United States President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of China on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) over the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic and said it had been worse for the US than Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Trump said fallout from the pandemic had hit the US harder than the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or the Sept. 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. “This is worse than Pearl Harbor. This is worse than the World Trade Center.”The surprise Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii drew the US into World War 2. The 9/11 attacks killed about 3,000 people, triggering two decades of US wars and anti-terrorism operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.

Source: Manila Times May 07, 2020 17:43 UTC