US-China nearing 'brink of new Cold war', says Chinese govt in unprecedented escalation

US President Donald Trump has been very critical of China’s inability to control spread of vel coronavirus within its territory, and over recent weeks, his and his administration's rhetoric against Xi Jinping-led government has been ratcheted to unprecedented levels. w, amid this, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that "it is most regrettable that while deadly virus is still out re, a ‘political virus’ is also spreading in US and jumping at any opportunity to attack and slander China", going on to make a grevious mention of 'Cold war'. 

While US leaders have dismissed China’s claims that Beijing has acted with transparency in its response to coronavirus outbreak, Wang Yi said that two nations have different social systems and US should give up its wishful thinking of changing China. He also said that it is true that Washington and Beijing have many disagreements, however, he believes that it doesn’t ‘preclude cooperation’. Chinese foreign minister furr added that it’s time for US to give up stopping 1.4 billion Chinese people's historical march toward modernization. 

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Chinese MoFA said, “Some political forces in US are taking China-US relations host and pushing our two countries to brink of a new Cold War. This is a dangerous attempt to turn back wheel of history”. Wang Yi also added that China will defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, its legitimate right to development, and its dignity and place in world which Chinese people have worked so hard to earn. 

US-China tensions

Tensions between China and United States are at an all-time high with US President Donald Trump and his administration claiming that vel coronavirus is a man-made disease and it emerged at a virology laboratory in Wuhan. Health experts have long said that y believe virus originated at a seafood market in Wuhan, where exotic animals were reportedly being traded illegally. China, on or hand, has claimed that re is evidence to suggest that virus originated at a seafood market and y are yet to establish where actually disease emerged.

Donald Trump has blown hot and cold on China since before he became President, basing a part of his campaign on stopping China's purportedly inexorable rise to becoming world's biggest ecomy, to his constant back-and-forths about trade deal with China, to his attacks on Huawei. However, Coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China and has caused highest death toll worldwide in US has taken this to a whole new level 

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