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Gordon Brown insisted countries in conflict with each other must bury the hatchet until the coronavirus pandemic is under control to avoid major repercussions over the coming years. Mr Brown insisted China and the US should turn their attention away from the tension between them to focus on cooperating to save lives. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the former Prime Minister said: “What I do know is that if you’re in the middle of a global health crisis and in the middle of a global economic crisis, when you need all countries to be part of the same forum, part of the same decision-making process, this is not the time to create one world with two systems.

“This is not the time for America to break in every respect with China and the rest of Asia.

“This is the time when, at least on these issues that are vitally important to save the lives of people in Britain as well as the lives of people in other countries, we’ve got to come together.

“These differences have to be sorted out over a long period of time but we’ve got an emergency at the moment and if the rest of the world and America do not work together to solve this emergency, I do say we are repeating the 1930s.

“The protectionism that led to all sorts of other problems as a result of this and I would urge those countries who are in conflict with each other at the moment to at least bury their differences when it comes to global health and the global economy.”

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China and the United States have been engaged in a bitter trade war for the past three years which was further exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

US President Donald Trump adopted a firm stance towards Beijing and called for an independent inquiry on China’s conduct at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Allies of both countries have now been facing the prospect of having to choose who to lend their support to as tension between the two countries continue to grow.

In a bid to secure their help, President Trump extended an invitation to Australia, India and Russia to attend a future meeting of the G20 to discuss the group’s future relationship with Beijing.

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