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By Rick Gladstone President Donald Trump assailed China as the coronavirus villain Tuesday in a strongly worded United Nations speech, extolling his own actions in the pandemic and demanding that the global organization hold accountable ࢀœthe nation which unleashed this plague onto the world.ࢀ Trumpࢀ™s speech ࢀ" made via prerecorded video to a General Assembly that was drastically curtailed because of the pandemic ࢀ" was followed by a recorded speech from President Xi Jinping of China, who called the coronavirus a crisis shared by everyone. Offering no hint of contrition, Xi portrayed his nation of 1.4 billion people as having…
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