Pompeo suggests that China travel is being cut off again due to COVID

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo It was suggested that United States The rest of the world needs to stop traveling from China To prevent another global epidemic of the COVID variant.

A former Trump administration official was seen on Cats RoundtableJohn Catsimatidis hosted a radio show in New York on Sunday, warning that a new COVID pandemic could be triggered by a mass Chinese outbreak nearly three years after it was first reported.

“We’re about to do the same thing again. The data is no good, but it sounds like we might have as many as one million – one million, John – Chinese people infected, fifty percent of their population traveling,” Pompeo.

“There is no reason we should allow the Chinese to do this again, to send Chinese-infected persons around the world knowingly infecting people all across the globe. [Chinese President Xi Jinping] got away with this once. I regret that he wasn’t held accountable, he hasn’t been held accountable,” He continued. “But he’s doing it again, so, John, just as in the spring of 2020 when he sent people around the world he knew were infected, he’s doing the same darn thing again. He’s going to infect millions more. We shouldn’t let that happen.”

Pompeo was also agreed to by Catsimatidis, who said, “We’ve been through hell.”

“The whole world has. The American business community has,” Pompeo responded. “And here we are, Xi Jinping doing it all over again. The virus came from a lab in Wuhan, and now it’s going to come from people inside of China traveling the world. The world should not permit this to happen again.”

China now faces an epidemic of COVID following the lifting of some of the government’s draconian lockdown policies after mass protests against the policies originally put in place in 2020. The failure of the lockdown policies to eradicate the disease in China has raised questions about whether Xi’s “zero COVID” approach was worth the dramatic toll it took on the nation’s economy.

Although official Chinese data are not reliable, signs from across the country indicate the existence of the disease. suggest China has lifted its lockdown policies on October 1st and the disease is now on the rise.

The streets of Guangzhou, China’s southern economic hub, are lined with businesses advertising “for sale” Or “help wanted” signs. Numerous industries are experiencing bottlenecks due to workers falling ill. According to reports, hospitals and funeral homes have been overrun by the sick and dead. The New York Times.

COVID was first discovered in Wuhan, China. Experts disagree on the illness’s precise beginnings, with two leading theories being a wet market or the product of coronavirus research and a lab leak. One reason the precise origin of the disease has been difficult to pin down is the Chinese government’s lack of cooperation with other world health officials and researchers.

Xi recognised the “tough challenges” In an address on Saturday, he stated that China still faces COVID. He stood by his administration’s “zero COVID” Policies and management of the pandemic thus far

“Since COVID-19 struck, we have put the people first and put life first all along,” According to the Chinese president, Bloomberg. “With extraordinary efforts, we have prevailed over unprecedented difficulties and challenges, and it has not been an easy journey for anyone. We have now entered a new phase of COVID response where tough challenges remain.”