Trump has to make China pay for the death and misery of Covid

If a nation is to blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what will Washington do?

More than 1.2 million Americans died of the consequences of a plague that started in China.

These astonishing global and US numbers are the numbers reported to the World Health Organization.

They make the Covid 19 pandemic the most fatal event that humanity has suffered since World War II.

The presence of the Wuhan institute for Virology in the city, in which the scourge was suspicious from the start – was this an unnatural disaster?

China examined Coronaviruses in this laboratory and carried out research with “functions”, which makes pathogens often contagious and fatal, but a large part of the media's media refused every possibility of a laboratory leak and called a conspiracy theory born from racist paranoia.

However, this labeling did not silence the discussion:

If at all, it is that some Americans are all the more determined to ask the questions they are not allowed to ask.

Now the Trump administration has revealed a new website of the White House entitled “Laboratory Loach: The True Origins of Covid-19” last month.

But if President Donald Trump believes that Chinese experiments are responsible for more than a million American deaths, how hard is he ready to face Beijing?

He is ready to punish other nations for the tribute that their trade strategies have taken over us in the United States in just dollars.

China is the greatest perpetrator in this regard – but the costs of Covid were in life and not only in national wealth incalculably larger.

The President met China with amazing tariffs on the “Liberation Day” on April 2, and if “liberation” meant something, it should mean freeing America from Beijing's economic power.

However, the degradation of the trade relationship between China and America is painful and difficult. With the howling of Wall Street, Trump has dropped the tariffs for Chinese goods from 145% to 30% in the next 90 days after triggering exceptions for products such as smartphones and computers.

China is currently economically vulnerable because more manufacturing countries switch to neighboring nations in which wages are lower, including India and Vietnam.

Trump has the instruments to change China in the global economy and prevents the global system so central that no nation could blame it for the next horror that can be seen from the caves or laboratories of the middle kingdom.

Instead of relieving the tariffs in China, the Beijing government should provide a comparative disadvantage and the tariff aid for the developing countries that are China's up -and -coming competitors – and in many cases are its careful neighbors.

Of course, punitive measures against the Chinese economy will not bring the victims of Covid back.

But they must not be forgotten either, and there is a moral dimension to limit China as safe as strategic and economic.

The moral accusations against the China Communist Party were overwhelming before Covid, with the party guilty for decades due to the death of ten million Chinese and the continuing suppression of billions and nothing about the occupation of Tibet and brutal radiation that were added to Uyghurs and other minorities and unbelievers.

None of these crime stopped the rest of the world, including the American administrations, which China accepted as an indispensable trading partner and helps the communist regime to the climbing status of the superpower – an emerging hegemon in its region with outposts and economic colonies that are spreading worldwide.

But the whole world felt Covid's whip, and if this scorching experience does not change the way in which the community of nations deals with risks from China, there will be even more.

Nothing was able to stop the pestilence in China six years ago, but a war that could prove to be fatal can now be averted by clever measures.

This means taking the strongest economic steps to build up the anxious neighbors, integrate Beijing and the trade relationship that hollows out our industries while listening to China's factories.

Consider it as a social distance on a large scale.

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.