Trump says UN must ‘hold China accountable’ for COVID-19 | Philstar.com

Trump, who faces a difficult reelection fight on November 3, has sought to deflect overwhelming voter criticism of his handling of the pandemic by blaming China. Broadcast over a large screen in the UN General Assembly hall, the US president effectively transferred his hawkish campaign stump speech to the global stage. “We must hold accountable the nation that released this plague upon the world,” he said. Trump accused China of only looking after its own interests when the potentially lethal virus first appeared in the city of Wuhan late last year. And he said “the Chinese government, and the World…