US Envoy Blames China for Endangering World With Coronavirus

U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Woody Johnson, is pictured after listening to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and David Attenborough during a conference about the UK-hosted COP26 UN Climate Summit, at the Science Museum in London, Britain, on Feb. 4, 2020. Chris J Ratcliffe/Pool via Reuters

LONDON—The U.S. ambassador to London has said China had endangered the world by suppressing information about the coronavirus outbreak thus allowing it to spread far beyond the Communist regime’s borders.

“First it tried to suppress the news,” Ambassador Woody Johnson wrote in an article for The Times newspaper published on March 26, adding that Beijing had then selectively shared critical information while stonewalling international health authorities.