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China deserve Trump’s COVID-19 criticism
President Trump was quickly identified as a part of the problem when the coronavirus emerged from China and began spreading around the world into the United States. Trump campaigned largely on an “America first” foreign policy and has been often criticised for rejecting the role that the United States of America has played in the world. Now we are in a global pandemic and he is being accused of alienating key allies, refusing to corporate globally and fighting the coronavirus alone.
Even though the current climate shows how he has been proved right in many ways regarding China and their foreign policy, many educated people in the United States are using their personal dislike towards the president rather than acknowledging what has actually happened.
The COVID-19 crisis has helped to prove Trump’s long-term thoughts on China have some strong grounds. These are something along the lines of: China takes advantage of the competitive world we live in, the state has unparalleled levels of international power and action, international institutions have very little ability to influence the behaviour of the state.
It is evident that the country’s lack of honesty and transparency prevented urgent action that might have been able to contain the virus. In Wuhan, Chinese officials punished civilians for spreading any rumours about the…
