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President Donald Trump and a CBS News White House correspondent had a tense exchange on Monday during a White House press conference at the Rose Garden.

Trump on Monday spoke in front of a large sign that said "AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING" and gave a glowing assessment of the country's efforts to test its citizens for the coronavirus.

"If people want to get tested, they get tested," Trump said.

The Trump administration regularly says the US leads other countries in the number of coronavirus tests administered. While the number surpasses that of tests in other countries, it severely lags others in terms of tests completed per capita. As of late April, Italy administered nearly 21,000 tests per million people, compared with the US's 11,800.

CBS's Weijia Jiang, an Asian American reporter, asked Trump why his administration was touting its coronavirus-testing numbers and comparing them with other countries' totals.

"Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still seeing more cases every day," Jiang asked Trump.

Trump, who has previously had heated exchanges with Jiang during press conferences, told her to ask China. The Communist Party of China has been accused of distorting the number of coronavirus-related cases and deaths in the country and downplaying concerns during the outbreak's early stages in December, before it became a pandemic.

"Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And maybe that's a question you should ask China," Trump said. "Don't ask me. Ask China that question. OK? When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer."

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