The Chinese Embassy in Australia has emailed local journalists, accusing them of “politicizing the coronavirus” by saying it originated in China, “without any supporting facts,” according to a journalist at the Australian Financial Review.
Financial Review journalist Michael Smith explained in an article published March 9 that he received an email last week from the Chinese embassy in Canberra, explaining comments made by Beijing’s Foreign Ministry during a press conference on March 4 about “highly irresponsible” references by some media to the “China virus.”
