On Wednesday, China accused the US of spoiling its credibility after a US official said his agency assumed COVID-19 was possibly caused by a laboratory incident in Wuhan, China. Moreover, China has denied the claim of US officials, calling it a smear campaign against China.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News on Tuesday that the Bureau has now assessed the source of Covid-19 was “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
The United States once again stirs up the laboratory leak theory, which will not discredit China, which will further lower its credibility.”
Mao Ning-
The department’s determinations are effective because it works with a network of national laboratories, including some that do advanced biological research. While other agencies within the US intelligence community consider the virus occurred naturally in the world.
In a Tuesday’s interview, Wray also blamed the Chinese government of trying to delay US efforts to investigate the causes of the pandemic.
The Chinese government has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, and the work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”
Christopher Wray-in an interview
At Wednesday’s press briefing, Mao reiterated a longstanding Chinese claim that the virus could have escaped from the US military research lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The US should respect science and facts, cooperate with the World Health Organization as soon as possible, invite international experts to conduct traceability research in its country, and share research results with the international community.”
Mao said.
