US President Donald Trump says China 'could have stopped the plague,' but China did not. US President Donald Trump said Friday that he is not thinking about a possible next stage of the U.S. trade deal with China, adding that the relationship between the two nations has been “severely damaged” by the coronavirus pandemic. They didn’t stop it,” Trump said on Air Force One en route to Florida, according to reporters present on the plane, CNBC reports. Asked if that friction meant “phase two” of the U.S.-China trade deal would no longer happen, Trump said he wasn’t even thinking about it and that he had many other things on his mind. Phase one of the deal followed a protracted trade war with China that hung over much of Trump’s first term in office.

Source: The Standard July 11, 2020 05:15 UTC