Germany has sparked outrage in China after a major newspaper put together a £130bn invoice that Beijing “owes” Berlin following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Express, UK’s newspaper, Germany has followed France, the UK and the US in directing its coronavirus anger at China, where the virus originated. Recent attacks come amid findings that Beijing appeared to cover up the true scale of the crisis, as the source of the outbreak remains a mystery.
On Saturday, Donald Trump warned that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for unleashing the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump told reporters: “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it.
“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, then there should be consequences.
He said the Chinese were “embarrassed” and the question was whether what happened with the coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
German Foreign Minister refuted the idea of demanding compensation from China
According to a report on the China.org.cn, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas refuted the idea of demanding compensation from China to pay back the losses of other countries during the coronavirus outbreak. The deadly virus, first reported in central China’s city of Wuhan, has since sprawled across the world and has taken over 153,000 lives. “I believe it is quite illusory to speak about demanding this money from China…
The belief that you can make one country foot the bill is relatively illusory,” Maas told Bild newspaper.