In this Feb. 24 photo, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian speaks during a daily briefing at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Beijing. © Andy Wong/AP
Washington Post: As U.S. calls for focus on covid origins, China repeats speculation about U.S. military base
China reacted angrily to the Biden administration’s calls for a harder investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, by accusing the United States of hypocrisy and suggesting it needed to open its own biological laboratories to international inspection.
Speaking at a media briefing in Beijing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian said that President Biden’s call for more scrutiny of the still-disputed origins of coronavirus was politically motivated and showed that the United States “does not care about facts and truth, nor is it interested in serious scientific origin tracing.”
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Update: China counters Biden's Covid origins lab probe ... by calling for a US lab probe (CNN)
WNU Editor: These Chinese claims and statements are being made to influence Chinese public opinion .... not international opinion.And from what I am hearing. It has been very effective.