Is There A Cold War Going On?

The tension between US and China keep increasing with Intense blows in UN General Assembly which was held virtually amid uncertainties surrounding coronavirus pandemic, with Donald Trump going direct on the case concerning the virus and the China.

Cold war is something the world could not bear looking at how things are, but the invisible fight between China and US will cost the world a lot with the world’s two best economies heading towards different directions.

The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic which was first reported in Chinese city of Wuhan, the dreadful virus have taken the lives of horde of people with cases running in millions, with UK seeing possible second wave and after first lockdown.

President Trump have downplayed the virus, saying that hyping the virus would have caused unnecessary tension. And have always regarded the virus as “Chinese virus” blaming president Xi of China of deliberately allowing the virus to spread to countries, while closing domestically.

• The quest to take over

With the annual UN General Assembly in New York, president Trump has called for the China to be held accountable for the awful handling of the pandemic and have accused them of inflicting the plagues to other countries.

The annual Assembly which was held in New York, and prologued by secretary-general of UN, Antonio Guterres. In his speech he emphasized on important of abstaining from Cold war, and invest more in uniting to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, which has put stop to everything.

The tensions between US and China, spread from trade to technology. President Trump has banned Chinese owned app TikTok, accused them of giving confidential information of US citizens to Chinese government, the taking over of the app by US-based company is at its final agreement, it is overted that president Trump did it to sabotage China, with millions of users coming from US.

The sour relationship between US and China, have affected their counterparts, which made it looks Cold war. President Xi Jinping has dismissed the speculations of Cold war, even though it looks like that. Pointing out the importance of resolving things with dialogue amd no country has the monopoly of control the development and affairs of the world.

US and China have clashed on different issues, Hong Kong and poor treatment of minority Muslim in China which president Trump voiced out openly and condemned China. President Xi Jinping reflected on that by saying we should avoid clash of civilisations.

Amid the forthcoming election in US, Mr Trump has heaped all the blame towards China, exempting himself from the failure of handling the pandemic. US holds the highest victim of the pandemic with deaths rising above 200,000 with has been a major stain to Mr Trump re-election.