WINSTON-SALEM: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to make China a central theme of the presidential race.
He accused Democratic rival Joe Biden of being a “globalist sellout” who helped engineer the widespread loss of American jobs.
“Joe Biden’s agenda is made in China. My agenda is made in the USA,” Trump said while speaking to thousands of supporters at an outdoor campaign rally at the airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Trump stated: “Biden is a globalist sellout who spent his career laying waste to American communities.” Trump trails Biden in national opinion polls. Biden in turn has criticised Trump for punishing American farmers and other industries with harmful tariffs on Chinese goods.
The former vice-president has also blasted Trump’s trade deal with China as not delivering the benefits to US industries the president promised, saying last month it was “failing – badly”.
Trump’s campaign has also accused Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, of opposing his administration’s efforts to fast-track a vaccine for the coronavirus, which he said was coming “very, very soon”. “They’re trying to disparage it,” Trump said. “They’re trying to make it politics.”