Former President Donald Trump said on June 5 that the United States and the world should demand pandemic reparations from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and urged the Biden administration to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 100 percent.
The former president made the remarks at the annual state Republican Party convention in Greenville, North Carolina.
“The time has come for America and the world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party of China. We should all declare within one unified voice that China must pay. They must pay,” Trump said. “The United States should immediately take steps to phase in a firm 100 percent tariff on all goods made in China.”
The CCP contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic by failing to notify global health authorities of the outbreak in Wuhan, China. The regime had locked down the megacity internally but allowed international flight in and out of its airports. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP virus.
“Last year, China inflicted an estimated $16 trillion of economic damage onto the United States with a virus that I call the China Virus because I want to be accurate, that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens,” the former president said.
Trump said that the pandemic changed his trade deal he was negotiating with China. At the time, his administration levied significant tariffs on Chinese goods and the CCP responded with tariffs of its own. The administration of President Joe Biden has kept the tariffs in place. Trump noted that “billions and billions of dollars is pouring in” as a result.
“This is the first time in a long time I’ve even mentioned the trade deal,” Trump said. “It’s really been very beneficial. But it’s so tiny compared to the devastation that’s been caused. We should reinvest 100 percent of all of that money that we collect from tariffs to help bring back jobs and factories from China and other places back to America and back to the great state of North Carolina where they belong.”
While rolling back many of Trump’s policies, the Biden administration has largely kept in place the tariffs and other measures imposed by his predecessor.
The speech in Greenville marked the second major public appearance by Trump since he left the White House in January. The former president has committed to remaining active in politics and hinted at another presidential run in 2024.
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Trump: All countries should collectively cancel debts owed to the CCP and make down payment for the epidemic
Reporter : Gu Fan / Editor : Li Jia / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/06/06/a103136601.html / Direct translation
Last Saturday (June 5), during the renewed debate on the origins of covid, former US President Trump asked the Chinese Communist Party for compensation. The pandemic caused US$10 trillion in damages to the world.
Last Saturday, Trump delivered a speech at the Republican State Congress in North Carolina, saying that the world "now is the time" to hold the CCP accountable for its role in the pandemic.
Trump was one of the first to blame the laboratory leak for covid.
In his speech, Trump called on all countries in the world to "work together to propose a plan of at least 10 trillion U.S. dollars to China to compensate for the damage they have caused."
"The damage is far more than that," Trump continued. "As a first step, all countries should collectively cancel any debts owed to China as the down payment for compensation."
Trump also stated that he believes that the United States should impose 100% tariffs on any goods imported from China.
This is Trump's second major speech after leaving the White House. The Wall Street Journal reported that this was a long campaign speech, highlighting Trump's plan to maintain influence in the Republican Party.
Trump said in applause, "The time has come for the United States and the world to demand compensation from the Chinese Communist Party and be held accountable", and pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party "must pay a price, and they must pay a price."
As Trump made this comment, the theory that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan laboratory in China is receiving renewed attention.
The World Health Organization issued a report earlier this year, claiming that the laboratory leak theory is "extremely impossible."
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that in November 2019, several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had become so ill with symptoms similar to COVID-19 that they required hospitalization. This has rekindled interest in laboratory leak theory.
Anthony Fauci, a top US infectious disease expert, told the Financial Times in London in an interview published last Friday that he wanted to see the cases of several scientists accused of being ill.
"I want to check the medical records of three people who reportedly fell ill in 2019," Fauci told the news media. "Are they really sick? If they are really sick, what disease did they get?"
At the end of last month, US President Biden ordered the intelligence community to "double its efforts" to make a clear conclusion on the origin of the virus and submit a report within 90 days.
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