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Trump Eyes China Crackdown as Coronavirus Retribution

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   U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he is eyeing ways to crack
   down on China as retribution for the way it handled the outbreak of the
   coronavirus pandemic.

   "There are many things we could do," Trump told Fox News. "We could cut
   off the whole relationship."

   "Now, if you did, what would happen?," Trump asked rhetorically. "You'd
   save $500 billion if you cut off the whole relationship," although it
   was not clear how Trump arrived at such a figure.

   The Trump administration has been considering ways it could punish
   Beijing for what it believes was its withholding of information about
   the virus late last year and into early 2020 as it spread from the
   initial outbreak in Wuhan, China across the globe.

   The U.S. could give Americans to right to sue China for the damage
   COVID-19 has caused to the world-leading American economy and to human
   life. The U.S. already has recorded 84,000 deaths, by far the biggest
   national total, with 147,000 expected to die by August.

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