BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - An official in China's foreign ministry defended his tweets questioning whether American soldiers introduced the coronavirus to Wuhan, in his first comments on the controversy over responsibility for the pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - An official in China's foreign ministry defended his tweets questioning whether American soldiers introduced the coronavirus to Wuhan, in his first comments on the controversy over responsibility for the pandemic.
The briefing was Mr Zhao's first time at the lectern since China's ambassador to the US, Mr Cui Tiankai, told"Axios on HBO" that such speculation about the origins of the virus was"very harmful." An assessment by the US intelligence community later found that Beijing concealed the extent of the early outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Bloomberg News reported April 1, citing three US officials.
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