"It might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan," said Zhao Lijian, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Business Insider reported.
The comment, an alternate explanation Beijing is pushing amid global criticism of the country's failure to mitigate the virus, comes as the Chinese government has increasingly disputed widespread international reporting that the virus was first detected in Wuhan.
The conspiracy theory, which has recently gained steam in China, instead suggests the virus was brought to the country in 2019 by U.S. athletes participating in the Military World Games that were held in Wuhan."
Looks to me like somebody is attempting to influence the U.S. election. Please let me know when Mr. Schiff etal. opens hearings...
| A tweet this morning: |
China and Russia have started an information war with the West. The main arguments: “the virus has come from the USA” and “the EU is doing nothing”, are spread also by the so-called useful idiots. In the time of a real plague let us be immune to the virus of a lie.
— Donald Tusk (@donaldtuskEPP) March 13, 2020