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President elect Joe Biden says China will have to play by rules, announces U.S will rejoin WHO

November 20, 2020

U.S President elect Joe Biden said that he wants to make sure that China plays by the rules and announced that his administration will rejoin the World Health Organization.

Biden was responding to a question on Thursday about his remarks during the presidential debates that he wanted to punish China over the way Beijing has been behaving. He was asked if that could include economic sanctions or tariffs on China, the world's second largest economy.

In April, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S would withdraw from the WHO, accusing the UN organization for failing to oversee the onset of the coronavirus as it began to spread in China.

�It's not so much about punishing China, it's about making sure China understands they've got to play by the rules. It's a simple proposition,� Biden said during a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors in his hometown in Wilmington, Delaware.

He said that is one of the reasons why his administration is going to rejoin the World Health Organization.
�We're going to rejoin on day one as well and it needs reform, acknowledge and rejoin the Paris Climate Accord. And we have to make sure that the rest of the world and we get together and make sure there are certain right lines the Chinese understand,� Biden, a Democrat said.

President Trump�s four years in power were the worst phase in China-U.S relations as the ruling communist party of China headed by President Xi Jinping struggled to deal with what Chinese officials say is the most elusive and unpredictable American leader ever since former U.S President Richard Nixon in 1972 established ties with the Communist nation.