'ACT OF WAR' Economist claims China hid coronavirus and added pandemic clause in recent US trade deal
By Sarah White, Assistant Digital Editor
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/11414045/china-pandemic-out-clause-coronavirus/
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In late November word had already gotten out that there was a virus in Wuhan.
“Six weeks later on January 15, the U.S. trade deal was signed with an out-clause that the Chinese made sure was in there. That said if there was any act of God, a pandemic, then they didn’t have to make good on what they’d committed to buy from the U.S..
“Within days they’d announced the first coronavirus (case).”
President Donald Trump said the deal - signed at the White House with China’s deputy leader Liu He - was “righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for American workers”.
Chinese President Xi pledged to buy $200 billion in American goods while the U.S. agreed to ease sanctions on China ending their two-year feud with the proposal which Xi called “good for China, the U.S. and for the whole world.”
It has been reported that the deal included a clause allowing either nation to renegotiate "in the event that a natural disaster or other unforeseeable event" impedes the agreement.