China lacked transparency during the early stages of COVID-19, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the US would get to the bottom of this.
Blinken claims China lacked transparency during COVID-19's origin probe
House Committee On Foreign Affairs Hears Testimony From Secretary Of State Blinken WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 10: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Committee On Foreign Affairs March 10, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Blinken is expected to take questions about the Biden administration's priorities for U.S. foreign policy.
Following Secretary of State Antony Blinken's claim that Beijing did not maintain accountability during the early stages of COVID19, the US launched a new broadside against China on Sunday. He has called on a thorough inquiry into COVID-19's origins.
These comments came after a new investigation conducted jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and China yielded inconclusive findings of the virus's spread. It was also alleged that the western interests were ignored while the Chinese government skewed the investigation to their advantage.
According to the Republic World, Blinken mentioned that even China recognizes that they failed miserably during the early stages of the virus's outbreak. When asked whether Washington would get to the bottom of the pandemic, the state official replied, adding, "We need to get to the bottom of this." He went on to say that to keep this from happening again. We need to get to the root of the problem.
The remarks are a strong sign that the US government can counter China's reservations. Following the findings of the investigation conducted by the Chinese team and the World Health Organization (WHO), a coalition of international scientists demanded a new analysis.
According to reports, scientists have encouraged a team of biosecurity and biosafety specialists to investigate. In a statement, the US, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, and Israel said that they support WHO's attempts to find the pandemic's origin but that the investigative evidence is incomplete.
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China has been chastised by the US Secretary of State for obstructing COVID-19 probes for its advantage, as per Zeenews India. The US diplomat said we need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible to have the greatest chance of stopping it from happening again. On Sunday (April 11), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched a sharp attack on China for lack of clarity during the "early days" of the coronavirus pandemic, calling for a more comprehensive investigation of COVID-19's origins.
Blinken's statements come after a report released last month by the World Health Organization, and China could not conclusively determine how or why the virus started to spread and did nothing to allay Western fears that the Chinese Communist Party rigged the investigation to benefit itself.
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Johns Hopkins University revealed that the Chinese government sought to thwart an unbiased investigation into the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed 2.93 million people globally, according to officials from the Trump and Biden administrations. Both administrations questioned the findings of a joint WHO-China origins report published in March.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Democratic Chairman Bob Menendez and ranking GOP member Jim Risch introduced the bipartisan Strategic Competition Act last week. They were calling on the executive branch to provide several reports on Chinese misconduct, global influence operations, and malign activities, including a detailed analysis of the novel coronavirus source.
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