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China on Monday vented out its anger towards outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling him “Mr. Liar” and dismissed as “conspiracies and lies” the allegations by the State Department that the COVID-19 might have emerged from Wuhan’s bio-lab and had hyperlinks to the Chinese navy. China, which confronted world criticism after the virus grew to become a pandemic claiming over two million lives, has been vehemently asserting that the coronavirus has emerged in a number of locations on this planet, whereas it solely reported it first.
But Beijing is extra resentful of outgoing US President Donald Trump and Pompeo for alleging that the virus might have emerged from the premier Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which researches Zoonotic illnesses.
The newest doc issued by the US State division reinforcing its earlier allegation that the virus might have emerged from the WIV, coinciding with the go to of a WHO inquiry workforce of scientists to Wuhan has additional riled Beijing.
Reacting angrily to the US doc, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying advised a media briefing right here on Monday that “the statement and the list are full of conspiracies and lies, which are consistent with certain US officials who have dealt with the pandemic in a passive way and constantly shifted the blame to others. The list is another US-made list of lies”.
The US doc mentioned, “for more than a year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin, choosing instead to devote enormous resources to deceit and disinformation”.
“The US government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus – known as SARS-CoV-2 – was transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” it mentioned.
“The virus could have emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, spreading in a pattern consistent with a natural epidemic,” it mentioned.
“Alternatively, a laboratory accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure included only a few individuals and was compounded by an asymptomatic infection. Scientists in China have researched animal-derived coronaviruses under conditions that increased the risk for accidental and potentially unwitting exposure,” it mentioned.
“The US authorities has cause to consider that a number of researchers contained in the WIV grew to become sick in autumn 2019, earlier than the primary recognized case of the outbreak, with signs per each COVID-19 and customary seasonal diseases.
“This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was ‘zero infection’ among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses,” it mentioned.
Significantly, China has honoured Shi who has earned the moniker of ‘Bat Woman’ for her passionate analysis into bats and viruses as an “advanced worker of the Chinese Academy of Sciences”.
The honour coincides with the arrival of the WHO workforce which is predicted to go to the WIV.
Shi now has alleged within the official media right here that mink, not the bat or pangolin could possibly be a doable host of the origin of the novel coronavirus, and referred to as on the world to probe samples from extra vulnerable animals to find out when the virus moved to people.
The state division doc additionally alleged that “for many years the United States has publicly raised concerns about China’s past biological weapons work, which Beijing has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention”.
Pompeo’s newest tweets towards China on a bunch of points, together with its political system, official media, Beijing’s response to COVID-19, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea, “fully showed that some US politicians ignored public safety and lives, go against science and are obsessed with making propaganda about conspiracies and spreading ‘the political virus’,” Hua mentioned.
“This is also the final madness staged by Pompeo, this Mr. Liar,” she mentioned.
“What I want to emphasise is if the US truly respects science and facts, it should open the Fort Detrick laboratory and make questions about its over 200 overseas labs open to the public, while inviting WHO experts to look into the origins and answer the international community’s suspicions,” she mentioned.
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