The highest number of cases and fatalities in the US speak of the failure of the administration’s healthcare system. He seems to play up the “China factor” the way PM Modi created hype and played up the “Pakistan factor” in BJP’s electioneering campaign in India. So, for China factor, the contending parties find themselves mobilising public opinion against China as a country that is a problem and a competitor for the US. The usually impulsive leader of the free world, Trump would invariably find a “China connection” in everything that goes wrong in the US or around the world. The heated exchanges have become usual in the US-China context particularly since Trump began to live at the White House.

Source: The Express Tribune September 27, 2020 03:43 UTC