Trump's Retweet of 'China Virus' Fuels Tensions With Beijing.

Both U.S. President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping have good reasons to deflect political blame for the coronavirus outbreak. The World Health Organization named the disease COVID-19 -- short for "coronavirus disease 2019" -- in part to avoid stigmatizing any one place or group for a virus that poses risks to everyone. Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S.'s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, agreed that the term Chinese coronavirus was inappropriate when asked about Trump's tweet at a congressional hearing Tuesday. [Extracted from the article]