Conservatives close to president argue U.S. is donating more than other countries and should push back against China.
Donald Trump has claimed at times during the coronavirus outbreak that he wants his administration to provide assistance and equipment to other countries, but it was his Secretary of State this week who made clear the president’s Covid-19 trade policy is shaped by the president’s “America First” instincts – even at the expense of virus-plagued U.S. allies.
The president insisted Wednesday night that he is not worried about U.S.-made medical equipment being sent to other countries at a time hospital officials and workers at home are sounding alarms about shortages. “I’m not, because … we’re in very good shape,” he claimed despite governors around the country saying the opposite.
Experts, however, see something different: An administration reluctant to alter an approach to global trade and diplomacy that led Mr. Trump to launch a trade war with China, while essentially starting trade skirmishes with longtime American allies like Mexico, Canada and all of economic Europe. The UK has been spared a trade flap – for now…
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