Sen. Tom Cotton said that China will be held accountable for causing the coronavirus outbreak to reach the rest of the world.

“I’ve got legislation that will open the American courts to all the victims of this virus so they can sue Chinese officials. We can impose sanctions on Chinese who were involved in this coverup. We can bring back the manufacturing that China has depended on for so much of their economic growth over the last 40 years to the United States.”

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Sen. Tom Cotton said on Monday that China will be held accountable for causing the coronavirus outbreak to reach the rest of the world.

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“China is a pariah state and we have to treat them like that,” Cotton, R-Ark., told “America’s Newsroom.”

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Cotton said there are many other actions to ensure China pays the consequences for unleashing this pandemic and that the United States never again becomes dependent on China.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is conducting a full-scale investigation into whether the novel coronavirus, which went on to morph into a global pandemic that has brought the global economy to its knees, escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, Fox News has learned.

Intelligence operatives are said to be gathering information about the laboratory and the initial outbreak of the virus. Intelligence analysts are piecing together a timeline of what the government knew and “creating an accurate picture of what happened,” the sources said. More

Tom is always trying to do what’s right.

— AmericanKat🇺🇸 (@4AmericanKat) April 21, 2020

The very first thing we need to bring back here is pharmaceutical manufacturing. We have no business doing business with Communist China.

Chairman Xi is right to be worried.

It’s time to boycott the CCP and build factories in America again.
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— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 16, 2020

The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for every single death, every job lost, every retirement nest egg lost, from this coronavirus. And Xi Jinping must be made to pay the price. pic.twitter.com/OLCj5Z5rrp

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 16, 2020