White House trade adviser Peter Navarro speaks during an interview at the White House in Washington, April 6, 2020. /AP
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro speaks during an interview at the White House in Washington, April 6, 2020. /AP
Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro startled the entire world when he recklessly claimed that the U.S. is at "war" with China. The notorious anti-China hawk's exact words were: "We are at war, make no mistake about that. The Chinese unleashed a virus on the world." This extreme rhetoric is a new low for the Trump Administration, which has invested its country's soft power almost exclusively towards the mission of blaming China for the COVID-19 pandemic, and raises very serious questions about the future of bilateral relations.
China has consistently rebuffed the U.S. accusations by providing a plethora of evidence proving that it promptly informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the novel coronavirus and did its utmost to prevent the contagion from spreading beyond its borders. Nevertheless, American officials are obsessed with blaming it for the disease so as to push its information warfare narrative that the country should supposedly pay "reparations" to the international community for the damage that COVID-19 caused across the world.
Spreading the far-right conspiracy theory that "the Chinese unleashed a virus on the world" is unprecedentedly dangerous because it implies that it was China which committed an act of war against everyone else and that other countries are therefore legally justified in defending themselves in accordance with the UN Charter. This is a gross perversion of international law that also o ..
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