China is pushing back at the U.S. since the Trump administration launched a website blaming Wuhan for the Covid lab leak. China published a white paper suggesting that the Covid pandemic could have come from the U.S.
Well, there is evidence that could have happened as well. The U.S. was participating in Covid-related gain of function in Boston prior to 2019 and there was a 2019 outbreak of a respiratory virus in Virginia that may have been related to a lab leak from nearby Fort Detrick. China has repeatedly asked the U.S. to look into this and no one ever took them seriously.
China says that the U.S. made its own bed during the pandemic, which is why it was so bad.
“The slow and ineffective US response during the early stages of the outbreak set an appalling example to the international community and made the US performance in handling the pandemic the worst of all countries.” They go on to blame Republicans for “[encouraging] and [spreading] vaccine conspiracy theories, inciting resistance to and skepticism about vaccines among the public.”
So it’s to be a war of words over the Covid-19 pandemic then. How does this help anyone really?
