U.S. Bid to Single Out China at UN Stalls Amid Wider Effort

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A Trump administration effort to blame China for spawning the coronavirus has stalled for now at the United Nations Security Council, with other countries focused exclusively on urging joint global action to fight the pandemic.

UN members ... are proposing that the 193-member General Assembly adopt a text calling for “international cooperation and multilateralism” and recognizing “the central role of the United Nations” in coordinating the global response to “control and contain the spread of COVID-19.”

The effort comes as the five permanent members of the council -- Russia, China, U.K., France and the U.S.-- have struggled to agree on a resolution partly due to U.S. insistence that the text include a reference to the coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China and some comment on China being responsible for worsening the global outbreak.

While talks continue, agreement is unlikely unless the U.S. backs down from those demands, according to two diplomats who asked not to be identified. The discord at the UN comes after the U.S. failed in a push to include language critical of China in a joint statement with ‘Group of Seven’ members.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/u-s-bid-to-single-out-china-at-un-stalls-amid-wider-effort?srnd=politics-vp

[The Magistrate]

1. They Need To Press It And Make Trump Use The Veto, Sir

Nothing else to do but make things crystal clear for all to see....

[jimfields33]

2. Where did it start? Before blamed that needs concrete proof

You can’t just go blaming someone for no reason. Trump! Ugh.

[The Magistrate]

3. There Is No Particular Cause To Doubt, Sir

The thing did first take root in China. It is a fact, but not one of any importance. Trump in particular is hardly in any position to decry the Chinese reaction to the thing, once it was clear something deadly was going on. Certainly there was some attempt to cover up, and there may have been some fudging of the numbers. That could as easily be said today of the United States.

[jimfields33]

4. Big time true.