With President Donald Trump's desire to open the United States' economy again, it looks like he's ready to accept its consequence--the death of many Americans. As the trade negotiation between the country and China is about to begin, it only shows that the POTUS is ready to go back in business again. However, some fear the ramifications of it as people will start going out again amid the threat of coronavirus' second wave.
According to The Guardian, Donald Trump seems to suggest that the U.S. needs to accept the fact that there will be more deaths in exchange of economy's reopening. Melania Trump's husband warns of a possible "brutal approach" to bring the country's financial resources alive again.
"We have to be warriors," he told Fox News about the possible additional COVID-19-related deaths due to the U.S.'s reopening. "We can't keep our country closed down for years."
Although the 73-year-old still hopes that it won't be the case, he can't deny that it may happen. As of this writing, the John Hopkins University tracker noted there are already over 1.250 million confirmed cases in the U.S. alone with more than 75,000 deaths. Sadly, the country has yet to flatten the curve, as the infection is still on the rise.
In China, the coronavirus outbreak continues after President Xi Jinping confirmed that the virus is still spreading overseas. The battle against COVID-19 resumes, especially in Hubei province, where the disease, reportedly, originated. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China also called for "unrelenting epidemic containment measures" in the said region, although it has switched to "epidemic control and prevention efforts "regularly."
Meanwhile, top Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators are about to talk about the progress of the implementation of the phase-one deal next week. This discussion comes after Donald Trump threatened to "terminate" the agreement if China doesn't adhere to the terms, Bloomberg noted.
According to the source close to the issue, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and the U.S.'s Robert Lighthizer will be on the call. If this plan pushes through, it will be the first time that these two will officially talk about the agreement after it gets signed in January.
In the deal's rules and regulations, the two trade negotiators should be in a meeting every six months. Hence, the next week's discussion comes a little bit early than it should be.
Donald Trump seems to be confident of how things will develop after he told White House reporters that he would report about it in the next week or two. But, it still depends on his contentment with how the trade deal progresses.
