States and because you know just very recently the u. S. Has passed the grim milestone of 200000 deaths to the coronavirus so he has every incentive just a few weeks now before an election of aiming fire at china. And he did that on many different subjects not just talking about the coronavirus but still you know we are at a moment geopolitically where chinas rise is really challenging the United States is previously the sole superpower we happened to have affectively to nationalists at the peak of both of those countries donald trump and she jinping so how these 2 powers and these 2 leaders play off each other is incredibly important for the rest of the world but im wondering so its very provocative theyre already locking horns when it comes to trade and tech but is this kind of business is usual with this administration and the chinese leadership. Well yeah i mean weve been on this path for some time now with donald trump but dont forget its not so long ago that he was trying to nego
It was fully transparent with information with the World Health Organizations and with other countries around the world so that there are definitely concerns about that investigations ongoing of course shes in pain throws that right back and says that implicitly that donald trump is trying to politicize this of course the kind of context in which were looking at this is on the one hand there is theres an election coming up very soon in the United States donald trump needs to get his message across which is blaming china essentially for what critics would say is problems of the United States on handling of this virus but then the big picture is that the United States and china are on collision course and were just seeing kind of you know parts of that playing out here at the u. N. Today the other very conspicuous elements of president trumps a prerecorded speech it echoed a certain the magica themes that theyre emphasizing National Interest i suggest we take a listen and then we continu
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Tougher restrictions are rolled out the Prime Minister warns that normal is still months away. And remembering the past but looking to the future molly marks 60 years of independence from france. For 1st time in history leaders from around the world are meeting virtually for the annual u. N. General assembly that is of course because of the coronavirus and on choose day the fight against covert 19 it dominated speeches from Global Leaders most of them called for united fights and for the United Nations to repurpose itself in response to a world permanently changed by the pandemic but its also exposed a rising tensions between the u. S. And china donald trump accused beijing of spreading what he called the china virus and chinas leaders paying said attempts to politicize the pandemic should be rejected so lets bring in our diplomatic editor james phrases of course at the United Nations and of course weve heard today james covered 1000 becoming really the latest crisis to divide World Le
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