The coronavirus has hit China and US ties immensely. The hostility between the two governments have been mostly confined to what the public call a "word war".

On March 27, President Trump announced that he had just finished a phone conversation with China's President Xi mentioning that the countries are working together to solve the pandemic and that China has indeed developed a strong understanding of the virus.

However, as the virus gravely affects US citizens and its economy, with almost 1.5 million positive cases and around 89,000 deaths, the relationship between the two countries have definitely turned sour.

Pompeo remains wary of China

In a recent radio station interview, Pompeo reiterates that while the world is busy battling the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party are ramping up efforts to gain influence and control among different countries around the world and that President Trump has included in his re-election campaign to put a halt to this madness.

Most of this anger comes from the fact that the COVID-19 death toll in the US has already surpassed the number of slain US soldiers during the nine-year Vietnam War.

Just recently President Trump has admitted that he was displeased at how Beijing was handling the COVID-19 outbreak and that he did not wish to speak with President Xi at the moment. The president has been pressing China to start an investigation on the origins of the virus, but his calls have yet to be answered.

Pompeo supported the president's statements by saying that faulty decision making by the Chinese Communist Party has resulted in an even wider transmission of the virus when it could have been avoided from the beginning. During the early stages of COVID-19, China was still allowing their citizens to travel around the world and conducted lockdowns only on major cities.

If these unnecessary travels were controlled by China, the entire world would be in a more positive situation at the moment.

China is experiencing continuous pressure from countries across the world due to alleged mishandling of the global pandemic affecting millions all over the world. Just last month, a leading newspaper in Berlin has issued a £130 billion invoice to China over COVID-19 damages. Chinese ambassadors from several countries have been called upon by their respective host countries to answer allegations of spreading misinformation as well the scandalous treatment of African nationals in the province of Guangzhou.

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Protect the Chinese people, not the Chinese Communist Party

Pompeo expressed in the interview that the U.S. government only want the best for the Chinese people living in the U.S., and Chinese people in general. However, the Chinese Communist regime is something else and that they are clearly acting in ways that hamper the interests of the American people residing in the US and abroad.

The communist party is acting in ways that could cause harm to the citizens of the United States of America and Pompeo said that the president is doing everything in his power to make sure that Americans are protected.