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China has described a report by the US secret services on the origin of the corona virus as “lying”. The paper presented on Friday was a “mendacious report that was drawn up for political purposes”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing wrote in a message distributed on Sunday. There was talk of a “defamatory attack” on China. “Without providing evidence, the US invented one story after the next to defame and accuse China,” China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu was quoted as saying.
The report by the US intelligence services on the origin of the coronavirus published on Friday did not provide any clear findings. There was disagreement among the services about whether the virus came from a laboratory or jumped from an animal to humans. Both are “plausible hypotheses”. If no further information was made available, a more precise conclusion would not be possible, it said. Above all, you need the support of China for this. “Beijing continues to hinder the global investigation, refuse to share information and blame other countries, including the United States,” the paper said.
US President Joe Biden hired the American secret services in May to get to the bottom of the origin of the corona pandemic. At the time, he instructed her to submit another report on this within 90 days.
For a long time, there have been unsubstantiated speculations that the coronavirus could have come from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan and may have been released through an accident. The Chinese vehemently reject such allegations. The corona virus first appeared in Wuhan.
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