Australia needs the US to emerge from the coronavirus crisis “intact and confident” and should not forget the “odious nature of the Chinese regime whose arrogance and secrecy spawned this pandemic,” says Sky News contributor Catherine McGregor.
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Ms McGregor said with Sunday marking the 151st anniversary of the US Civil War, the United States now faces “a different threat to its own soil”. “Today, armed forces are not threatening to lay siege to Washington; today there are no smouldering ruins of buildings destroyed by terrorists”. “No, today an invisible virus is killing thousands of Americans daily,” she said.
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