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Sky News US correspondent Cameron Stewart says the administration in Washington is “really going after China in a way that we just haven’t seen throughout the entire Trump presidency”.

This comes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a conference “China could have spared the world a descent into global economic malaise” and “they had a choice but instead covered up the outbreak in Wuhan.”

“They were very strong words, and at the same time, the Chinese ambassador to the US put an opinion piece in the paper where he accused America of basically hating China,” Mr Stewart told Sky News.

“It’s now a war of words that’s really escalating and things are really heating up.”

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