Thank you for being with us on cspan. Guest happy to be here. Host it is friday afternoon your time. Some of the looming questions involve chinas responsibility for this pandemic. What are your looming questions five months after the first outbreak . Guest the thing im focusing on now is how china tries to come out of this and manage this. I think they can see that when the dust settles, there is going to be a lot of fingerpointing. More fingerpointing now. A lot of blame shifting both from the United States, from europe. Tona has been trying rewrite the narrative and pretrade themselves not as the source of the virus but as the savior from it. Not so much on the United States but in europe in particular and africa and other parts of asia. We have seen them donating a lot of masks. Selling a lot of ventilators and other equipment to try to portray themselves as a helpful, responsible, global superpower. In a lot of cases, that has backfired because those masks have turned out to be sub
Journal. If you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Washington journal primetime. For the next hour, a special evening addition of cspans washington journal. Your questions and comments about the coronavirus epidemic start now. Host the u. S. Death toll as a result of coronavirus continues to increase at a rate of 2000 per day. Tonight, it is approaching 86,000 with nearly a million and a half cases in all 50 states and the district of columbia. For this thursday, may 14, a primetime addition of washington journal. We turn our attention to arkansas appeared Governor Asa Hutchinson will be joining us live from little rock. Later, the chinese response to this pandemic. Well talk to the beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post and the senator from West Virginia. Join in on the conversation. In the eastern time zone. For those of you out west, 202 7488001 shared if you are in arkansas a resident, 202 7488002. Numbers with the courtesy of