The US President, facing a November re-election battle with the country dealing with the world's highest official number of deaths and infections from the coronavirus, focused his speech on attacking China
US President Donald Trump used the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to attack China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the world body "must hold China accountable" for its actions related to the outbreak.
"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world, China," he said in remarks taped on Monday at the White House and delivered remotely to the General Assembly due to the pandemic. "Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease ... The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions."
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