Ties between the U.S. and China are at their 'worst point in living memory,' says one academic who says both countries are engaged in a 'grand exercise in blame-shifting' over the coronavirus pandemic.
relations are at their "worst point in living memory," according to a professor, who said both countries engaged in a "grand exercise in blame-shifting" over the coronavirus pandemic.has blamed Beijing for a lack of transparency over the true extent of the Covid-19 outbreak in China – where cases were first reported. In response, Beijing has suggested that the U.S. might be the real source of the global pandemic.
It completely undermines any attempts to come up with new international solutions ... Everything is made more difficult by the fact that U.S. and China are not going to cooperate with one another.China has reported 83,849 coronavirus cases, the latest According to Crabtree, the U.S.-China quarrel and their lack of cooperation are a setback in the war against the pandemic.
Meanwhile, China's relations with the U.K. are also appearing strained, with the U.K.'s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
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