It's time US focused on the struggle against a real enemy－the virus

Both Beijing and Washington have been engaging in telephone diplomacy recently, although with different ends in mind, as Beijing has been trying to promote international solidarity in the fight against the novel coronavirus, while Washington has been trying to exploit the outbreak as an opportunity to isolate China.

That they have been working through their similar lists of contacts to diametrically opposite purposes speaks volumes about the intensity of the two sides' strategic contradictions.

The rapport that seemed to have developed between the two countries during their trade talks is now just a distant memory. Despite the positive outcome of those discussions and the constructive interaction that the negotiations incubated, it is Washington's dirty politics of always blame China that has discouraged the world's two largest economies from standing shoulder to shoulder to fight the contagion, even though it is a common enemy.