US President Donald Trump again lashed out at China Wednesday over the coronavirus pandemic, blaming Beijing for "mass worldwide killing."
The early morning tweet, which also referred to an unidentified "wacko in China," was the latest heated rhetoric from the White House, where Trump is making attacks on Beijing a centrepiece of his November re-election bid.
"It was the 'incompetence of China', and nothing else, that did this mass Worldwide killing," the president tweeted.
Trump initially played down the seriousness of the threat and said repeatedly that China was addressing the outbreak.
He has also threatened to break off US funding to the World Health Organization or WHO over what he says was its assistance to China in covering up the extent of the outbreak.
