Friday, May 2, 2025 - Beijing has claimed that America, not China, is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a white paper released on Wednesday, China's State
Council Information Office suggested the virus that killed 1.2 million
Americans and at least 7 million people worldwide may have originated in the
United States.
The document appears to be a rebuttal to renewed backlash
from the Trump campaign, which has doubled down on claims that Covid leaked
from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a lab known to be
conducting coronavirus experiments.
The white paper released by China's State Council
Information Office was meant to rebut the Trump Administration which has
claimed the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) which was
doing coronavirus experiments at the time.
In the report, Chinese officials wrote: 'The US government,
instead of facing squarely its failure in response to Covid-19 and reflecting
on its shortcomings, has tried to shift the blame and divert people's attention
by shamelessly politicizing SARS-CoV-2 origins tracing.
'A thorough and in-depth investigation into the origins of
the virus should be conducted in the United States. The United States should
respond to the reasonable concern of the international community, and give a
responsible answer to the world.'
The report goes on to say: 'Substantial evidence
suggested the COVID-19 might have emerged in the United States earlier than its
officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in China.'
Many virologists and epidemiologists still believe that
the coronavirus emerged in the human population after being transmitted between
various animal hosts.
The Chinese government said in its latest report that the
US should not continue to 'pretend to be deaf and dumb,' but should respond to
the legitimate concerns of the international community.
The report comes after the White House launched a new Covid website earlier this month, where the official line is that the coronavirus escaped from the WIV labs while criticizing former President Joe Biden and top infectious disease specialist Dr Anthony Fauci.
The Chinese government wrote in its white paper that in January 2020, 'the US was aware that an epidemic of a novel coronavirus was spreading quickly within its borders' and chose to 'downplay the severity of the epidemic… [on] multiple occasions compared Covid-19 to the flu, saying that it would disappear automatically one day.
'The US has made China the primary scapegoat for its own
mismanaged Covid-19 response. The US government's indifference and delayed
actions wasted the precious time China had secured for the global fight against
the pandemic.
The white paper goes on to allege that the virus has its
roots in US soil, detailing respiratory disease outbreaks from May to October
2019 that the Chinese government alleges were Covid cases, though lab test
results never concluded this.
'A US CDC study revealed that out of 7,389 serological
survey samples collected from nine states between December 13, 2019 and January
17, 2020, 106 were SARS-CoV-2 antibody positive. This suggests that the virus
existed in the US before the first official case was identified,' the white
paper said.
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