- White House SeniorAdvisor, Jared Kushner warns

the United States will go onthe offensive against China

because of the economicpain the COVID crisis

has caused Americans.

It's already pushed some topursue lawsuits against Beijing

but as CBN News National Security

Correspondent, Eric Philips reports,

some believe those efforts could backfire.

- New research shows awhopping 62% of Americans

believe China is a growing problem.

At the center of it, belief the regime

allowed COVID-19 to infect the world.

One expert tells me China is not likely

to face any consequences because of this

and could potentially benefit from it.

COVID-19 has crisscrossed the globe,

bringing unprecedented sickness,death and financial crisis.

With Wuhan, China seen as ground zero,

major questions remain about whether

the devastation could've been avoided.

- Once it became clear

to the Chinese Communist Party leaders

that this virus was highlycontagious and deadly

and was being transmittedfrom humans to humans,

they continued to encouragetravel outside of China

to the rest of the world.

- [Eric] And U.S. officialssay China hasn't helped matters

by choosing to withhold key information

and spreading misinformation.

- I think China will largely

get away with this, unfortunately.

- [Eric] Dr. Glen Duerrteaches international studies

at Cedarville University.

- Maybe it was foreign travelers.

Maybe it had somethingto do with U.S. troops.

They've given all thesekinds of conspiracy theories

just to simply try andmuddy the waters out there

to get the focus off of XiJinping and the Communist Party.

- It's not just about

political retribution or accountability.

It's important today.

We need to know this so wecan save lives going forward.

- [Eric] As America's death toll grows,

at least half a dozenclass action lawsuits

have been filed targeting China,

including the states ofMississippi and Missouri.

Legal experts don't expectthe cases to get very far

because U.S. law generallyprohibits lawsuits

against other countries.

Duerr believes globalpressure in a major forum

like the United Nationsor upcoming G7 Summit

would be the best route.

For that to work, headds, the U.S. and Japan

would have to take the lead

because other countriesmay hesitate to speak out.

- China really has a lot of governments

under their thumb right now

'cause they've loaned theman awful lot of money.

They've built variousinfrastructure, roads,

soccer stadiums in a lotof parts of the world

and those governments even though

there'll be pressurebecause of coronavirus,

aren't gonna turn uponthose making the loans.

- [Eric] Regardless, Duerrsees China likely emerging

unscathed and possiblystronger in the end.

- Because of coronavirus,a lot of governments

will likely have a big drop in funding

as we're seeing in the United States,

they'll be unable to pay back China's loan

and so China couldactually emerge from this

really in a strongerposition, believe it or not.

- Meanwhile, officials sayChina's ruling Communist Party

is becoming more aggressive,

both outside the countryand within its borders.

The military is advancingin the South China sea,

prompting the dispatch

of two American warships to the region

and China is reportedlyspreading propaganda in the U.S.

to control the coronavirus narrative.

Back home, a tighterclap down on Christianity

not seen since the 1970s,

an apparent effort toeliminate it from public life.

Duerr says he doesn't believeChina could've predicted

an increase in its powerbecause of the pandemic.

He also says as the U.S.presidential election grows closer

he believes attention to the coronavirus

will subside which couldalso bode well for China.

Eric Philips, CBN News.