Donald Trump’s top trade adviser has suggested China deliberately allowed hundreds of thousands of people infected with coronavirus to leave the country “to seed and spread the virus” abroad.

Peter Navarro’s remarks follow the White House’s accelerated rhetoric against China, where the virus is believed to have originated, as the crisis in the US grows nearly four months after a pandemic was declared.

As the US approached its Fourth of July holiday weekend, more than a dozen states saw record numbers of new cases. Cases reached more than 50,000 for a third day in a row.

Five more states broke single-day records for newly identified cases on Friday, a day after eight other states saw record high numbers.

On Thursday, the US set yet another single-day record for new cases, with more than 55,000 cases identified, for the sixth time within two weeks.

More than 2.8 million people in the US have been infected with Covid-19 and more than 129,000 people have died since the onset of the outbreak.

While firework displays, parades and other events across the US are cancelled, the president – leading a nation that has mostly rolled back on an easing of the lockdown – headed to South Dakota for a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore. Officials said that physical distancing and face coverings would not be enforced.

The president has repeatedly falsely claimed that cases in the US are rising because more tests are being performed. However, scientists says the rate of test positivity is increasing, suggesting the virus is spreading.

Mr Navarro claimed on MSNBC that the “Chinese communist party” is responsible for forcing Americans to “stay locked in our homes and lose our jobs” despite demands for increased testing and tracing and federal aid to help out-of-work Americans stay home while the virus is brought under control. However, a state-by-state patchwork response of brief lockdowns across the US – which several states did not mandate – has not been enough to reduce infections.

He said that “everybody” had believed “that come summer, the heat and humidity would get rid of the virus” though health officials have warned for months that would not be the case. “It doesn’t look that way. This looks like a weaponised virus.”

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Asked whether he believed that China had deliberately and knowingly sent people to infect other countries, he criticised China for restricting domestic travel “while they freely sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals on aircraft around the world”.

“Let me be really clear about this. I don’t think it really matters ... What they deliberately did – and this is beyond reproach in terms of the facts – they deliberately allowed Chinese nationals to come into the US, Italy and everywhere in between, who were infected, while they were locking down their own transportation network,” he added.

Critics have argued that the administration’s frequent attacks on China are a ploy to distract from its own failures to combat the virus.

Mr Navarro’s remarks follows the president’s Twitter message on 30 June: “As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China. People can see it, and I can feel it!”

The president had praised China’s transparency and his relationship with President Xi Jinping over several weeks leading up to a US outbreak but reversed course as his administration faced criticism for its failure to mobilise a response.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last month, he suggested that China had “intentionally” spread the virus, following a conspiracy theory among White House officials that Covid-19 was generated in a lab.

“They’re saying, ‘Man, we’re in a mess,’” he said. “’The United States is killing us.’ Don’t forget, my economy during the last year and a half was blowing them away ... I don’t think they would do that ... but you never know.”

This week, the president heralded “great news” that the nation’s death rate from coronavirus “is down” despite the surge in new cases. In the spring, health officials reported as many as 3,000 deaths a day, with the virus proving fatal to nearly 8 per cent of infected patients.

In recent weeks, Covid-19 deaths have dropped to roughly 5 per cent. But health officials have warned that the US has probably undercounted the nation’s death toll.

A recently released report from researchers at Yale University compared the number of excess deaths from previous years to non-coronavirus deaths in 2020, finding that the “official” death toll could present a “substantial undercount” of the actual deaths from the disease.

In May, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert who is heading the federal coronavirus response, told NBC that it’s unlikely that Covid-19 deaths are being over-reported and that “there’s more of a chance of missing some that are really coronavirus deaths that are not being counted” but not enough to significantly alter trends.

Dr Fauci told a Senate committee this week that Americans “need to emphasise the responsibility that we have both as individuals and as part of a societal effort to end the epidemic”.

“We’ve got to get that message out, that we are all in this together,” he said. “Anything that favours the use of masks – whether it’s giving out free masks or any other mechanism – I am thoroughly in favour of.”

The president also appeared to reverse his public posturing on masks after dismissing federal guidance in April and stoking a cultural and political war among his supporters and Democrats over wearing them.

“I don’t know if you need mandatory,” the president told Fox Business Network on Wednesday. “I’m all for masks. I think masks are good.”

Several Republican governors who initially resisted quarantine efforts in their state have since rolled back reopenings or mandated face coverings in public, effective this week.

After his state saw a record daily number of new cases on Wednesday, hitting more than 8,000, Texas Governor Greg Abbot has ordered residents to wear masks in public.

Arizona’s governor Doug Ducey is also requiring residents to wear masks in public after the state saw a single-day spike of 4,000 new cases.

Florida saw 10,000 cases in one day on Thursday, the only state other than New York to see a single-day spike to ever breach 10,000.

But governor Ron DeSantis has not mandated further closures after he shut down bars and beaches a second time. State lawmakers have pressed the governor to put a statewide mask order in place.

Nearly 9,500 new cases were reported in the third most-populous state on Friday, marking the third-largest spike recorded in a single day, as statewide totals since the beginning of the outbreak near 180,000.

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The Chinese Communist Party needs to be held accountable for its role in eroding democracy in both the U.S. and Hong Kong, White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro asserted Saturday.

In an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend" with host Pete Hegseth, Navarro urged Americans to "unite around" the fact that the Chinese Communist Party lied about the spread of coronavirus leading to the deaths of Americans.

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"It's over 130,000 Americans so far, Pete. And, do you know what? There is nothing on that death certificate that has party affiliation. The cause of death is the ‘China virus,'" he accused.

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According to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there are now almost 2.8 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States and just shy of 130,000 deaths.

Navarro said he believed that "anger" over the lockdowns, "anxiousness" about an uncertain economic future, and "fear of getting the virus" has led to disunity and national unrest.

"And then, you’ve got these radical elements that want to basically have another Chinese Cultural Revolution to destroy our culture, our habits, our customs, our ideas," he added. "What Mao called the [Four Olds]."

"And, what we have to do is unite around this central fact: China lied; people died. The CCP lied; Americans died," Navarro reiterated.

In order to do so, he told Hegseth that Americans need to unite on "literally making [the Chinese Communist Party] pay for that."

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping arrive at a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)

"They also have to come clean on exactly what they’ve been doing with that virus. Is it an engineered virus, for example? Or did it simply slip out of a lab? Where did it come from?" he asked, referencing other virus origin theories. "Until we know the answer to those questions, we won't know how to fight this virus."

Navarro then shifted his focus to Hong Kong. On Tuesday, Beijing tightened its grip on the former British colony by passing a contentious security law that critics say undermines the semi-autonomous territory’s judicial independence.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke out against China’s power grab in a statement shortly before reports of the bill's approval.

“If China wants to regain the trust of Hong Kongers and the international community, it should honor the promises it made to the Hong Kong people and to the United Kingdom in the U.N.-registered 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration,” his statement read.

The Trump administration has warned for weeks that, if the law was passed, it would take action to end special U.S. trade and commercial preferences Hong Kong had enjoyed since reverting to Chinese rule in 1997.

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"The other thing I should say on this glorious fourth is today we are mourning the loss of the independence of Hong Kong even as we are celebrating our own independence," noted Navarro. "And, I think Americans might want to reflect on what is happening to the people in Hong Kong at the hand, the brutal hand of the Chinese Communist Party. And, don’t think that, ‘Oh, it’s just Hong Kong.’ China, the Chinese Communist Party’s doing that to us right now with this virus tearing us apart."

Navarro also pointed out that residents of Hong Kong are going to be absorbed into "what is effectively a great firewall concentration camp" in the "worst Orwellian kind of nightmare you can imagine."

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"So, we’ve got to get tough on China," he stated. "This president is the only president that has ever done that."

"And, I can't imagine a world in which 'Beijing Joe Biden' gets the keys to the Oval Office, because that will be the death of this republic. And, I think it's worth saying that on July 4th," Navarro concluded.

Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche, Stephen Sorace, and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

團結美國人民，追溯病毒真相

白宮貿易顧問彼得·納瓦羅（Peter Navarro）周六《福克斯與朋友周末》中的採訪中明確表示：中共必須為自己在侵蝕美國和香港的民主制度中所扮演的角色負責。並且呼籲美國人民的認知必須“高度一致”：即中共在冠狀病毒傳播上的撒謊導致美國人死亡這是不容置疑的事實。

納瓦羅責問中共：你們得坦白，你們到底用那個病毒做了什麼？病毒是一種實驗室製造的病毒（engineered virus）嗎？還是只是從實驗室里泄漏出來的？它的源頭在哪裡？必須得到這些問題的答案才知道如何對付這種病毒。

向中共追責追償

根據約翰-霍普金斯冠狀病毒資源中心的數據，目前美國有近280萬例中共確診病例，死亡人數達到了13萬左右。納瓦羅說：“目前已經有超過13萬美國人死亡，死亡證明上死因一欄應該寫上“中共病毒”。納瓦羅反覆呼籲美國人圍繞這個核心事實團結起來：中共撒謊，人民死亡。共產黨撒謊，美國人死亡，必須要讓中國共產黨為此付出代價。

納瓦羅認為，民眾對封鎖的 “憤怒”、對不確定的經濟前景的 “焦慮”以及 對感染病毒的“恐懼”導致了美國目前不團結和動盪的局面。而這個局面催生了激進分子，他們本質上希望有另一個中國式的文化大革命，以摧毀美國的文化，美國的習慣，美國的習俗，美國的思想，也就是毛澤東所謂的“四舊”。（譯者註：四舊是指舊思想、舊文化、舊風俗、舊習慣的合稱、統稱，含貶義。破四舊不僅造成了社會生活的混亂，財產、文物的損失，更可怕的是讓紅衛兵從學生循規蹈矩的行為規範、習慣里掙脫出來，打破了種種文明禁忌，把虛妄的階級鬥爭從理念轉化為實行踐履的狂熱。）

為維護自由世界的民主獨立而戰

納瓦羅對於破壞香港這個半自治領士司法獨立的《中共國安法》聲明：如果中共想重新獲得香港人和國際社會的信任，就應該履行在聯合國註冊的1984年《中英聯合聲明》中對香港人和英國的承諾。川普政府數周來一直警告說，如果《中共國安法》通過，將採取行動結束香港自1997年恢復中共統治以來享有的美國特殊貿易和貿易優惠。

納瓦羅說在這個光輝的美國獨立日裡，我們在慶祝自己獨立的同時，也在哀悼香港失去獨立。納瓦羅比喻香港居民將被吸進一個 “巨大的防火牆圍成的集中營”，是你能相像的 “最糟糕的奧威爾式噩夢”。（譯者：指對自由開放社會的破壞）。納瓦羅希望美國人民去反思，香港人民正在面對着殘暴的中共政權，不要簡單認為這只是香港的事情，中共現在在對美國做着同樣的事情，中共正在利用病毒想把美國撕碎。

納瓦羅最後說美國政府必須對中共強硬起來，而川普總統是唯一一位能做到這一點的總統。

評：郭文貴先生帶領的爆料革命啼血呼喚三年多，香港人民付出了上萬人的生命，用一年多的頑強抗爭向全世界證明中共政權的殘暴，直至今日全球付出了110多萬人感染中共病毒，53萬人死亡，而美國也已付出了13萬人的代價，終於等到了今天這個大日子。納瓦羅作為川普總統最信任的發言人在美國獨立日發誓要對中共病毒真相徹底追責，說明美國已經準備好了，中共試圖用投毒搞死美國，用Antifa搞亂美國等等招數都不能摧毀美國集結全球正義力量摧毀共產黨這個毒瘤，維護自由世界民主價值制度的決心。

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