US President Donald Trump has accused China due to their failed attempts to contain the coronavirus outbreak at its very origin.
Trump claimed that China's incompetency has led to 184 countries "going through hell".
"It's in 184 countries, as you hear me say often. It's hard to believe. It's inconceivable," Trump told reporters at White House Tuesday.
"It should have been stopped at the source, which was China. It should have been stopped very much at the source, but it wasn't. And now we have 184 countries going through hell," he added.
Trump has been criticized China publicly for the worldwide spread of the "invisible enemy" and initiated an investigation against it.
Donald has also hinted that the US may also be looking at "a lot more money" in damages from China than the USD 140 billion being sought by Germany from Beijing for the pandemic.
According to reports, approximately 58,000 U.S. troops were killed during the war in Vietnam. The number of dead in the U.S. due to the coronavirus surpassed 55,000, as per Johns Hopkins University's data.
Senator Ted Cruz and his colleagues also urged Defence Secretary Mark Esper and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to carry out the development of a fully domestic supply chain of rare earth.
"It is clear that our dependence on China for vital rare earths threatens our US manufacturing and defence-industrial base. As the October 2018 Defence Industrial Base Report states: 'China represents a significant and growing risk to the supply of materials deemed strategic and critical to US national security.' [...] Ensuring a US supply of domestically sourced rare earths will reduce our vulnerability to supply disruptions that poses a grave risk to our military readiness," the Senators wrote.
Ami Bera, Indian-American Congressman, and Congressman Ted S. Yoho, both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will be leading a bipartisan virtual Special Order to highlight the importance of US global leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
"If we abdicate our place as a leader in global health, there is another country eager to take the reins. China has not been subtle in asserting itself on global health issues, and often not for the benefit of other nations. China's recent coronavirus debacle should be evidence enough that their communist regime cannot be trusted to lead with accountability, transparency, or pragmatism, traits that are essential when fighting widespread disease," Yoho said.
"As for how China would fare as a global health leader, look no further than the disastrous initial response by the WHO to coronavirus, one that was clearly influenced by Beijing. Information was slow-walked, warnings from nations like Taiwan were ignored at crucial turning points, and cooperation with outside health experts was spurned until it was too late. And it has resulted in the largest public health disaster the world has seen in over a century," he said.