China rejects Biden’s call to examine Covid origin theories
by Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5JB44)
Spokesman says US president's order to intelligence agencies is attempt to stigmatise Chinese government
China has hit out against Joe Biden's calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covid-19 was first transmitted to humans, questioning Washington's motives and railing against the notorious track record" of US intelligence in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq.
The US president said on Wednesday he had ordered the US intelligence community to intensify its efforts to study the origins of coronavirus, including the possibility it emerged from a laboratory accident rather than from human contact with an infected animal.
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