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SCMP Columnist
On Balance by Robert Delaney
Coronavirus crisis? Trump’s bromance with Xi is going strong and he can blame everything on the Democrats anyway
- The US president has suggested that investors are panicking not because of Covid-19 but because of the Democratic presidential debates. It’s doubtful that even the Chinese propaganda machine could stretch the truth that far
Updated: 4:33am, 3 Mar, 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.