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Coronavirus Tests US-China Ties

Nike Ching

   STATE DEPARTMENT - The United States is transporting donated supplies,
   including life-saving personal protection equipment and medical and
   humanitarian relief supplies, to Hubei, China, to help with the ongoing
   coronavirus crisis.

   The shipments, delivered by planes chartered by the U.S. State
   Department, arrived in Wuhan this week, as the Chinese government
   asserts that Washington has not provided substantive assistance.

   "The cargo holds in those 747s were full of medical and other supplies
   donated by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse, by the LDS Church out
   in Salt Lake, to take supplies and to take things that will help the
   people in Wuhan, as a sign of our friendship to the people of China
   from the people of the United States," said the White House National
   Security Advisor Robert O'Brien on Wednesday in Washington.

   "This is a very dangerous and concerning virus, we need to do
   everything we can to contain it now," said O'Brien. "This is something
   that goes beyond politics."

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