How will the US-China war of words and tariffs play out? President Trump’s administration is upping the ante with China. Ever since he moved into the White House, Trump has regularly injected bellicosity into the dialogue with China. There have also been several moments of professed bonhomie. That is in piece with the current US administration; it is hard to decipher its moves and even harder to predict the next bend in the road. But of late, the level of anti-China rhetoric has reached new levels, and it appears that this time a point of no return may be imminent. Or is it? Earlier this week, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told media that the Novel Coronavirus had originated from a laboratory at Wuhan. The implication is damning. It means that Chinese scientists were the deliberate creators of the deadly virus that has brought the world on its knees. It debunks the original story of its origin from a bat or some other animal on sale in a market in Wuhan. It also wigg...
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