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US response to coronavirus 'incompetent': China hits back at Trump

Beijing's spokesperson defends WHO after Donald Trump accused UN agency of toeing to China

Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photo: PTI
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Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photo: PTI

Agencies Beijing and Geneva
The US is targeting the World Health Organization (WHO) to "shift the blame" from its own "incompetent response" to the coronavirus pandemic, said China on Tuesday hours after President Donald Trump accused the UN agency of showing "an alarming lack of independence" from Beijing. 

"The US tries to use China as an issue to shift responsibility and bargain on its international obligations to WHO", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing in Beijing.

Trump posted a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dated Monday, on his Twitter page overnight. Among other things, Trump pointed to his decision to

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