The US Senator Lindsay Graham on Fox News said China was responsible for the American deaths due to coronavirus infection and unemployment.
“The pandemic began because of the Chinese government and its behavior. This is the third disease from China”, – Graham explained.
He noted that the US should “force China to change its behavior”.
“And I want to start writing off part of our debt to China, because it is they who must pay us, not we to them!” – the senator said.
He believes that China should be punished so severely that it would subsequently restrain it in the future.
Johns Hopkins University reported that in the United States the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection exceeded 500 thousand, killing more than 18 thousand people.
The United States is currently in first place in the world in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and second after Italy in the number of deaths.
Earlier, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of spreading misinformation about coronavirus in order to discredit the actions of American authorities to combat COVID-19. At the Chinese Foreign Ministry, these charges were called US comedy. The representative of the agency noted that China timely transmitted information about the epidemic to WHO and other countries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 announced an outbreak of a new coronavirus infection with a pandemic. According to the latest data, more than 1.5 million people in the world became infected with the coronavirus, more than 92 thousand died.