US trains guns on Beijing amid calls for a ‘pandemic tariff’ on Chinese goods – Times of India
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers, politicians, and officials are training their guns on China, with some of them wanting to send Beijing a bill for unleashing a worldwide pandemic that has cost Washington more than 26 million jobs and trillions of dollars in relief spending.
Anger in political circles, particularly in the Republican Party, has manifested itself in legislative proposals seeking to allow U.S citizens to sue China in American courts for the pandemic, calling for sanctions on Chinese officials, and in the most extreme suggestion, defaulting on the $1 trillion-plus US debt to China.