US President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the importance of aggressive actions linked to Beijing including recent arrests of two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling a dangerous pathogen into the United States, saying “that’s the way the world works”.
Trump told Fox News that Washington behaves in a similar way.
“You don’t think we do that to them? We do, we do a lot of things,” he said on the Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo show.
“That’s the way the world works. It’s a nasty world.”
Trump was responding to a question about how he viewed Chinese intellectual property theft, hacking of the US telecoms system and controversy around the Covid-19 pandemic.
He likewise dismissed concerns over a case in which two Chinese nationals were accused last month of smuggling in a toxic fungus.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, false statements and visa fraud.
