China Condemns President Biden’s Renewed Wuhan Lab Probe. Calls It ‘Political Manipulation’

 

NBC: China hits back at Wuhan lab leak 'conspiracy' after Biden calls for Covid probe 

Some world leaders and scientists have criticized Beijing for not raising the international alarm quickly enough over the coronavirus outbreak. 

China on Thursday hit back at President Joe Biden's call to redouble efforts to determine the origins of the coronavirus, and dismissed a theory that it may have leaked from a laboratory in its city of Wuhan as a "conspiracy." 

Chinese officials accused the U.S. of politicizing the pandemic and said that international experts had "repeatedly praised China's open and transparent attitude" to Covid-19's origins. 

"Some people in the United States completely ignore facts and science," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters Thursday.  

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WNU Editor: Chinese state media is now shifting the blame to others .... Chinese Embassy in US calls for thorough probe into secretive bases, labs around the world (Global Times). 

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