China warns Elon Musk after COVID lab leak comments
“He did it via a pass-through organization ,” Musk responded, referring to the nonprofit group that was awarded nearly $8 million in federal research grants to study bat coronaviruses in China.
Elon Musk was warned by China, in the Global Times newspaper, that he could be “breaking the pot of China” regarding his lab leak theory of the coronavirus.The Global Times warned Musk that he could be “breaking the pot of China.” The saying is similar to the expression “to bite the hand that feeds you,” according to CNBC’s Eunice Yoon, who was the first to report on the warning.
As noted by the outlet, the electric vehicle maker maintains a factory campus in Shanghai – China is the company’s second-largest market.A Department of Energy report concluded that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.The Department of Energy has recently concluded that COVID-19 most likely came from the Wuhan lab, according to the classified intelligence report cited by the Wall Street Journal.
The so-called lab leak theory was widely dismissed as a conspiracy or “fringe” theory. It was labeled as “misinformation” by Democrats and major news outlets, and social media companies in the early stages of the pandemic suppressed the theory from being circulated.
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