Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential candidate has said the USA, lost lives, jobs and standing as a result of President Donald Trump’s “perspective and approach to China.”
Harris, made these known during Wednesday’s debate with Republican Vice President Mike Pence.
While fielding questions the U.S. relationship with China, Harris said Trump had a “weird obsession” with getting rid of the accomplishments of the administration of former President Barack Obama in which a Biden served as Vice President.
“For example, they (Obama and Biden) created within the White House an office that basically was responsible for monitoring pandemics, they (Trump) got rid of it.
“There was a team of disease experts that President Obama and Vice President Biden dispatched to China to monitor what is now predictable and what might happen.
She said 210,000 Americans have lost their lives as a result of the Trump administration’s decisions, adding that
Trump’s renegotiated trade deal with China resulted in the loss of no fewer than 300,000 manufacturing jobs.
Harris went on to note that American consumers were paying thousands of dollars more for goods because of “that failed war, that they called it”.
Answering the same question earlier, Pence said the Trump administration’s position is that China is to blame for the pandemic.
“The president is not happy about it, and he has made that very clear and made it very clear today again.
“China and the World Health Organisation are not playing straight with the American people.
“They did not let our personnel into China to gain information on the coronavirus until the middle of February,” he said.
