As China runs an anti-United States propaganda campaign partially aided by the American media President Trump is seeking to refocus the world’s blame back on China for their incompetence in handling the outbreak and causing worldwide pain.

According to Fox News:

President Trump on Thursday sought to refocus blame on China for its failure to contain coronavirus before it morphed into a global pandemic — pushing back on propaganda efforts by the totalitarian Chinese government to blame the U.S.

“It could have been contained to that one area in China where it started,” Trump said. “And certainly the world is paying a big price for what they did.”

Earlier in the briefing he said that, “if people would have known about it it could have been stopped in place, stopped right where it came from, China,” he said, after calling it the “Chinese virus.”

Trump has ramped up his targeting of the Chinese government since it began an effort to try and pass the blame onto the U.S. by propagating conspiracy theories online. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian wrote on Twitter last week: “When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals?”

Trump reiterated that because the virus originated in China he wants to be accurate and call it the Chinese virus.