China slams Biden’s renewed probe of Wuhan lab as ‘political manipulation’
Mark Moore, 27 May 2021
The Chinese Communist Party blasted President Biden’s decision to renew the investigation into whether the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab as “political manipulation” and one that “does not care about facts and truth.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, speaking at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, said the US “does not care about facts and truth, nor is it interested in serious scientific origin tracing.”
“Some people in the United States claim they want the truth, but their real intention is political manipulation,” Zhao said.
He also attempted to accuse the US of covering up its response to the pandemic and called for a renewed probe to examine America’s role especially at a biomedical research facility in Fort Detrick, Md.
“The U.S. side claims that it wants China to participate in a comprehensive, transparent, evidence-based international investigation,” Zhao said. “We would like to ask the US side to do the same as China and immediately cooperate with the World Health Organization on origin tracing research in a scientific manner.”
After months of minimizing the theory that the pandemic may have originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology instead of through animal-to-human transmission at a Wuhan market, President Biden announced on Wednesday that he directed the intelligence community to do a 90-day investigation.
