US: Mike Pompeo asks China to make details of coronavirus 'available to the world'

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on March 20 urged Beijing to make details of emergence of coronavirus ‘available to whole world’. China, on serval occasions, has been accused of covering up information on vel virus. US President Donald Trump h also said that world is suffering because of cover-up, however, China has said that y have shared data with US throughout health crisis. 

Mike Pompeo, while speaking to White House reporters said, “ Chinese government was first to kw of this risk to world. And that puts a special obligation to make sure that data gets to our scientists, our professionals.”. 

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He furr ded, “This is t about retribution. We're in a live exercise here to get this right. We need to make sure that even today, data sets that are available to every country, including data sets that are me available to Chinese communist party, are me available to whole world. It's imperative to keep people safe”. 

Pompeo’s statement came after Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang accused Trump of trying to ‘shift blame’ for coronavirus pandemic. Shuang reportedly said that some people on US side are trying to stigmatise China’s fight against epidemic and shift blame onto China. He furr ded that approach igres great sacrifice me by Chinese people to safeguard health and safety of humankind, and slanders China’s major contribution to global public health.

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US-China blame game 

Meanwhile, Trump launched a scathing attack on China and said world is paying a ‘very big price’ for covering-up facts on coronavirus. During a press briefing along with members of White House Coronavirus Task Force, Trump said that if threats of virus would have been me public at an earlier st, virus could have been contained to area where it started. Trump also accused China of suppressing initial reports of coronavirus outbreak and its severity which caused Chinese and international experts to miss critical opportunities to prevent a pandemic.

Trump even justified branding of vel coronavirus pandemic as ‘Chinese virus’. However, World Health Organisation (WHO) has explicitly vised against it. While China has slammed Trump and or US officials for referring virus as ‘Chinese Virus’ or ‘Wuhan Virus’, US President has been trying to justify term. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also lashed out at Trump for stigmatising a race and a particular community saying US President doesn’t need to incite a backlash against alrey suffering Asian-American communities.

(With PTI inputs)

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