Coronavirus: China, US trade blame at UN meeting over pandemic


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The US and China clashed during a virtual United Nations meeting Thurday over their responses to the coronavirus pandemic. The remarks from both parties came just after the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke about the lack of international cooperation to stem the threat of COVID-19. Two days earlier, US President Donald Trump had used his address to demand action against China for spreading the “plague” to the world. Deepening divide Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, at the end of a digital meeting with UN Security Council members on “Post COVID-19 Global Governance,” alluded that countries — including the US —...