The coronavirus is deepening the rift between Beijing and Washington, at a time when cooperation is needed most
As a lethal pandemic races across the world, overwhelming health systems and upending entire societies, President Donald Trump’s top aides and allies see an opening to weaken a vulnerable adversary.The Trump team’s escalating drumbeat against China is worrying some public health experts, who say the attempts to blame Beijing for the coronavirus outbreak could harm efforts to combat the spreading contagion, while winning praise from others.
Hawkish pro-Trump lawmakers in Congress, meanwhile, have raised alarms about China’s outsized role in global supply chains for key medicines. And that’s on top of other anti-Beijing moves that have nothing to do with the virus at all. The Trump administration’s hardline reaction to Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus is in many ways par for the course: Its foreign policy relies more on sticks than carrots, and it has flatly declared the ruling Chinese Communist Party a long-term global threat.
“A lot of these emotional and punishment policies will over time come back to bite us,” warned Paul Haenle, a former National Security Council official who dealt with China under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the outbreak could “accelerate the return of jobs to North America,” although that was before the virus was detected in large numbers inside the United States. Peter Navarro, a strident anti-China voice within the executive branch, has used the outbreak to push for ways to decrease U.S. reliance on China for the manufacturing of key drugs and medical equipment.
Even as Cotton announced Thursday that he was temporarily closing his Washington, D.C., office after a Senate staffer tested positive for the virus, he hinted at unspecified moves to retaliate against an unnamed culprit, presumably Beijing.
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