Washington: U.S.-China relations are at their “worst point in living memory,” according to a professor, who said both countries engaged in a “grand exercise in blame-shifting” over the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed Beijing for a lack of transparency over the true extent of the Covid-19 outbreak in China – where cases were first reported. In response, Beijing has suggested that the U.S. might be the real source of the global pandemic.
“U.S.-China relations are at their worst point in living memory for a number of decades probably since the 1970s, at the moment there’s a grand exercise in blame shifting going on, on both sides,” said James Crabtree, an associate professor at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “Neither side wants to be blamed for their own response, so the Chinese and Americans are blaming each other.”
