President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of China over the global coronavirus pandemic and said it has been worse for the United States than Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Mr Trump said fallout from the pandemic has hit the United States harder than the 7 December, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or the 11 September, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. "This is really the worst attack we've ever had," Mr Trump told reporters at the White House. "This is worse than Pearl Harbor.
This is worse than the World Trade Center." The surprise Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii drew the United States into World War Two.