Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) called on America and all the nations to demand reparations from China due to the damage caused by Covid-19.
Speaking at the North Carolina Republican Convention, Trump said: “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 voice that China must pay. They must pay.”
He also stressed that the US should immediately take steps to impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese products, which can stop them from pulling their military and move a lot of companies back to the US. The former US President also said that he had a great relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping until the ‘China virus’. He also said that China doesn’t care much about current President Joe Biden.
“In addition, all nations should work together to present China for a bill of minimum $10 trillion to compensate for the damage they have caused and that is a very low number, the damage is far far greater. As a first step, all countries should collectively cancel any debt that they owe to China as a downpayment on reparations,” said Trump.
“The nations of the world should no longer owe money to China. China has destroyed so many nations. China should owe money to the nations of the world.These nations have been destroyed,” he added.
Trump also slammed the Biden administration for being ‘timid’ and ‘corrupt’, accusing it of shutting down an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 earlier. “Joe Biden and his family took millions of dollars from the CCP. They bought him off, they fragrantly lied about it to American voters… the big tech and fake news media did not want to talk about it,” he said.
Taking a dig at Joe Biden, Trump slammed the current administration for bowing down to China, calling it the ‘most radical left-wing administration in history’. He said: “Always put America first. We don’t put America second. As we gather tonight, our country is being destroyed before our own eyes. Crime is exploding, police departments are being ripped apart and defunded.Is that good politics, defund our police?”
“Illegal immigration is skyrocketing at a level we haven’t seen before. And this is over a period of few months. Gas prices are soaring. Our industries are being pillaged by foreign cyber attacks. That’s a lack of respect for our country and our leaders. And speaking of our leaders, they are bowing down to China, America is being demeaned and humiliated on the world stage. Our freedom is being overtaken by left-wing cancel culture. And the Biden administration is pushing toxic critical race theory and illegal discrimination into our children’s race theory,” Trump added.
He also said that the Republicans will win North Carolina again in 2024. “We are going to win North Carolina. We are going to lay the groundwork for making sure the Republicans once again carry the great state of North Carolina in a year that I look very much forward to-2024,” said Trump.
This comes amid a renewed focus on the origins of the virus. An explosive new study has found that Chinese scientists created the virus in a lab in Wuhan, then tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats. Earlier this month, a report by Wall Street Journal had stated that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care after they fell ill in November 2019, a month before Beijing reported the first patient with Covid-like symptoms.
ANI