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The US, China and the Coronavirus

How Washington screwed it up and China probably didn’t

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John Berthelsen
Jul 22, 2020
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In a blistering speech in Michigan on July 16, US Attorney General William Barr accused the Chinese government of being “engaged in an economic blitzkrieg — an aggressive, orchestrated, whole-of-government…campaign to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and to surpass the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower.”

The blitzkrieg…

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