On Balance by Robert Delaney

What Trump praising China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak says about US foreign policy

The US president lauded China’s ‘efforts and transparency’ in tackling the coronavirus even as his secretary of state highlighted the threat China poses to the world

In the run-up to the presidential election, Trump will avoid rocking the boat further with China

Robert Delaney

Published: 3:00am, 4 Feb, 2020

Updated: 6:24pm, 14 Feb, 2020

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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.

What Trump praising China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak says about US foreign policy

The US president lauded China’s ‘efforts and transparency’ in tackling the coronavirus even as his secretary of state highlighted the threat China poses to the world In the run-up to the presidential election, Trump will avoid rocking the boat further with China

The US president lauded China’s ‘efforts and transparency’ in tackling the coronavirus even as his secretary of state highlighted the threat China poses to the world

In the run-up to the presidential election, Trump will avoid rocking the boat further with China