TENSIONS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND BEIJING ABOUT CORONA VIRUS ORIGIN

                Chinese official doubts the involvement of the United States military in bringing the Corona virus to his country. "Perhaps the US military bought the epidemic to Wuhan" In these terms, Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lejian official accused the United States of being behind the outbreak of the Corona Virus, which spread in China and recorded more than 87,000 infections according to the Chinese National Health Commission, without providing any evidence to support its surprising accusations. The Chinese official considered that Americans do not deal with the issue transparently, asking them to disclose for their data. It mentions that a number of similar conspiracy theories spread through the means of Chinese social medias. In this tweet, Zhao posted a video to the head of the US Center of Disease Control and prevention during a congress testimony in which he said that the cause of death of some Americans who were believed to have died of the flu had been diagnosed as Covid-19. Zhao wrote on twitter " The US Center of Disease Control is under the spotlight. When did the patient number one appear in the United States? How many people are infected? What are the hospitals name? May be the US military is to bring the epidemic to Wuhan. Adopt transparency! spread you data! The Unites States owes us an explanation". Zhao completed his tweet series with an article "More evidence that the Corona Virus appeared in the United States" Note that the Global Research website based on Montreal Canada, Whose article was published is full of conspiracy theories about the attack of September 11 in the USA.
Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang declined to comment on Zhao's remarks, asked repeatedly but he was saying only that the international community has different ideas about the origin of the Corona Virus that infected more than 170 Thousand cases in the world. It is reported that chief of the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention said himself that the source of the Corona Virus is Wild Animals that were sold at a market in central China's Wuhan City, Chinese officials have accused of trying to conceal the epidemic Corona Virus, at a time when the police proceeded in Wuhan to rebuke and silence doctors who sounded the alarm about the Virus in December, however since the beginning of January China has started taking very strict measures to contain the virus, including the closure of Wuhan and some of its neighboring cities in Hubei Province, but in the past few days, Chinese officials have said that the Corona Virus may have first appeared somewhere else, while Beijing has angrily responded to US officials over linking the Corona Virus to the country, with secretary of State Mike Pompeo describing the epidemic as a Wuhan Virus, the Foreign Ministry dismissed those words and said "Insulting and does not respect science"
The United State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador in Washington in protest against Chinese statements, hinting that the american army may be the reason for spreading the Corona Virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan amid escalating tensions between the two countries over the source of Corona Virus spread. A State Department official said that David Stilwell, head of the US diplomat for East Asian affairs, addressed a strongly worded speech to the Chinese ambassador to Washington Cui Tiankai who took a clear defensive stance. He added that China seeks to alleviate the international criticism directed at if for its role in spreading Corona Virus and hiding the matter from the world, Dissemination of conspiracy theories is dangerous and ridiculous, we warn Chinese government that we will not tolerate this for our concern for the benefit of the Chinese citizens and the whole world. Despite the escalation of tensions between the two countries in this regard, The United State President Donald Trump praised Beijing's role in exchanging information, in response to a question about strange stories that came from some Chinese officials, Trump appeared to be trying to allay any fears in this regard, the US president said that he had read an article on this subject, but he believes that the allegations do not reflect the mutual discussions between him and the Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, Trump added who described the Corona Virus as a foreign virus in a national address to the Americans, they know where it came from and we all know that. The current tensions between Washington and Beijing over the statements about the origin of Corona Virus represent the latest episode of the war of words, which reflects the deterioration of relations between the two countries in the recent period because of problems related to commercial affairs and intellectual property rights, in addition to other problems due to freedom of the press that occupied the spotlight with the beginning of the outbreak Corona Virus.
Zhao's comments came a few days after the statements of Robert O'Brien, the National Security Adviser, in which ha said that China had cost the world two months that could have used in preparing to confront Corona Virus, Wuhan city was the starting point of infection with Corona Virus, which has been classified be the World Health Organization as a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
Despite China's efforts to contain the outbreak Corona Virus we begin to feel the immediate impact of the crisis clearly, Small numbers of foreign countries citizens have been infected and the governments of those countries are studying the dilemma of  returning them to their countries, provided that the person carrying the virus is isolated upon arrival in his country. Some countries have completely closed their borders to Chinese citizens, at times, disturbing and unfair feelings have arisen towards China and the Chinese. It seemed the economic impact of the crisis immediately clear, affected sectors that depend on the movement of goods and workers such as tourism, airlines, tour operators Navy ships and commercial shipping lines, crisis has left the global supply chain of many important products under observation as all supplies of mobile phones, microprocessors and auto parts may stop at any time. The service sector, such as foreign universities that offer training courses in China, for example, may find its income threatened, it's impossible to know how long this situation will last or the repercussions of the crisis on Beijing, it depends on what will happen with Corona Virus outbreak. Says Bonnie Glaser, Director of "Project China Power" Studies at the Center of Strategic and International in Washington: The impact of the crisis on the image of China President Xi Jin Ping inside and abroad his country will depend on the duration of Corona Virus and its impact on the Chinese economy. if the Chinese communist party was able to control the spread of Corona Virus and finish the crisis, then few people inside China continue to criticize the party as initial slow response and efforts to cover up the spread of the disease. Glaser said many countries that have sought to obtain investment from China as part of a BELT AND LOAD initiative will continue to get Chinese loans for infrastructure projects where there are no other sources of funding. The lasting impact of the crisis can change the Chinese  image especially the President Xi Jin Ping or the direction in which the country is going, the implications of Corona Virus affect the main relationship between Beijing and Washington with clear indication of a technological COLD WAR and the tensions surrounding the spread of Corona Virus make matters worse.
The Director of Asian Studies at the Council on Foreign relations Elizabeth Economy says there are two different narratives with China. The first put forward the Chinese diplomatic corps, that China has taken extraordinary measures to contain the virus for Chinese citizens and as a gift to the rest of the world, these measures are activated by the authoritarian model that exists in the country. The second is that China lost precious time in dealing with the epidemic because of its political system and its determination to silence independent voices, local officials have become more afraid of acknowledging that things are not going well under the president's apply, has been hampered by this an effective response. Even in the aftermath of Doctor Lee Wyniang's death, the communist party continues to track independent votes, in China many viewed Dr Lee as a hero because he was the first to warn of the threat posed by the outbreak of Wuhan Corona Virus but he could not overcome it. We had hoped that his death and the public response to him would alert Chinese leadership to the importance of transparency and more open civil society in dealing with crisis that hit all parts of the country, says Economy. She points out that she does not believe that Corona Virus will change the perceptions of Chinese government, but rather will simply feed existing beliefs, supporters will praise the resource activation mechanism to cope with the crisis, while critics will focus on a lack of transparency and concern about the accuracy of the information available in China.
On the economic front it may be important to talk about the things we know about Corona Virus and its spread, this epidemic demonstrated the importance of China to the global economy and the need to diversity supply chains for various products. It may encourage more companies not to rely too heavily on China for manufacturing, as well as relying heavily on Chinese consumer market, Elizabeth Economy attended in Munich at the last annual security conference, Corona Virus crisis and its potential impact on the medium and long term relationship between Washington and Beijing appeared in many of the discussion sessions. Ian Bremmer founder and chief strategist at Eurasia Group the leader in political risk and consulting, told me that the crisis may reshape business relations between the United States and China dramatically but not exactly for what many people might think, American companies have been thinking for a long time to reduce the dependence of supply chains on China in light of the increasing business of commercial pensioners, in addition to the Chinese labor that is rising and becoming increasingly ineffective and with the spread of Corona Virus American companies may now have the excuse they need to take this step, this is a harsh example but it is very real possibility of COVID-19 continues to create chaos. At least Corona Virus makes it highly unlikely that China will be able to fully implement the first phase of the trade deal it recently signed with the United States, which could affect the nature of relationship between the two sides.
Bonnie Glaser agrees with the idea that China will have difficulty fulfilling the commitments it made in the first phase deal but the US is likely to slightly lower the level of recession in Beijing. Focusing on his re-election, President Trump will celebrate his achievement ans strive to maintain good relations with Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, while pledging to make further progress in the second phase, 2020 will be the year of unchanging, here we see the important intersection between economy, diplomacy and domestic politics each of which has a role in the relationship between Washington and Beijing, but the relative importance of each factor varies according to the circumstances. Ian Bremmer says: Trump has been somewhat positive to date about President Xi handling of the situation. This position is largely due to the fact that Trump is relatively protected from the consequences of Corona Virus crisis, but that could easily change is the epidemic begins to have  a real economic impact on the United States in less than an election year will most likely see President Trump chasing President Xi more fiercely. This will not be limited to empty statements from the content, given that the two parties "Republican and Democratic" are tough on China these days, Trump's decision to attack President Xi will have a real impact on the relationship between two of the major economic powers, the feelings of hostility toward China were evident during the Munich conference, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, headed a large congressional delegation and was outspoken against the Chinese especially with regard to technological competition but it was not only related to trade or technology and clear ideological component emerged. Mark Esper the US Secretary of defense, prefer to refer to the actions of the Communist Chinese Party rather than China, consequently Corona Virus crisis is capable of aggravating the already deteriorating climate between Washington and Beijing, this could have much broader consequences not least for Europeans or indeed of Washington's allies in Asia, which will get stuck in the middle but the Europeans had no interest in remaining in the midst of this cold war.
In fact, this is the first time that we see Americans and Europeans differ in this way about what should be a major national security concern, this in turn could have a profound impact on the already somewhat strained relationship between the Unites States and some of its NATO partners. As Americans are ready for a cold war versus China's technology it seems for the time being it is like a bilateral cold war rather than a global war, it's also possible that things will go wrong with transatlantic relations.