Political analysts: Trump's aggressive rhetoric against China is hurting America's economy

Washington-Sana

Political analysts affirmed that the hostile rhetoric and trade war waged by US President Donald Trump and members of his administration against China harm the American economy and severely destroy bilateral cooperation between the two countries, hindering joint efforts to combat global health epidemics in the future.

Sputnik reported that Michael Clary, an honorary professor of peace and global security studies at Hampshire College, warned that “making China a scapegoat could destroy the prospects for a successful economic recovery from the Covey 19 pandemic” and said: “At this moment when the entire world suffers from the consequences of the virus It is necessary for all countries to cooperate in overcoming its effects and preventing future epidemics.

He continued, "The economic consequences of the Covid 19 epidemic have proven to be particularly severe and can be best overcome through coordinated recovery efforts by major economic powers, especially the United States, China, Japan and European Union countries."

"For these reasons, I denounce the Trump administration's attempts to exploit public fears of the epidemic in order to tarnish the image of China and impose new sanctions on it, hindering cooperation efforts to overcome the economic damage imposed by the epidemic," he said, explaining that "this can only lead to prolonging the damage and hindering cooperation." In preventing future epidemics, which we must assume is likely to happen. ”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Legian said yesterday that cooperation between China and the United States is necessary to end the epidemic in order to revive their respective economies, in response to Trump's warning yesterday that the United States could completely cut diplomatic ties with China over the current Covid 19 crisis.

Earlier this week, US lawmakers introduced a bill "to punish Beijing if it fails to provide a full statement of the outbreak", as the FBI opened an investigation alleging that China "launched cyber attacks to disrupt US research on coronaviruses."

For his part, Director of the Independent Institute of the Center for Peace and Freedom Evan Eland said that the hostile speech of the Trump administration against China would lead to counterproductive results and harm the prospects of the American economic recovery and said that “passing a bill to deploy additional American weapons in East Asia and accelerate arms sales to Taiwan may increase The worsening deficit, American debt, and military tensions with China could risk war. ”

Eland pointed out that Trump is ready to risk a major confrontation with China for internal political reasons and to enhance the chances of his re-election, saying that "Trump is trying to make China bogey to divert attention from his failures in response to the outbreak of the epidemic, so hitting China is mostly for the local public and for electoral reasons and not for reasons related to On foreign policy. ”

The trade war between Beijing and Washington started after the end of September 2018 of the American President imposing customs duties on Chinese goods within the framework of the economic sanctions policies pursued by Washington against the independent countries that do not follow their approach, which is what China responded in kind.