Pompeo calls for China cooperation amid COVID-19 tensions

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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (Apr 15) called for coronavirus cooperation in talks with a top Chinese official, ...

Pompeo renewed his push for"full transparency" in a call on Wednesday with senior Chinese official Yang Jiechi, but the State Department's tone was unusually positive.

China is a vital source of masks and other supplies desperately needed by the United States, which has the highest number both of infections and deaths from the virus.Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had appeared to reach a truce in a phone call late last month, with Trump and Pompeo afterward ending the provocative use of the terms"Chinese virus" and"Wuhan virus."

"Even today, we see them withholding information. And so I think we need to do more and continue to press them to share," Esper told Fox News.

 

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Just ignore these arrogant bustard. They go help themselves like they also claimed.

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