Biden Says He Hasn’t Spoken to Chinese Leader About Virus Origins

Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping toast during a state luncheon for China hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington on Sept. 25, 2015. Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. President Joe Biden said on April 6 that he hasn’t talked to Chinese leader Xi Jinping about the origins of the CCP virus, which causes COVID-19.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden was asked, “Have you had the chance to ask him [Xi] if these reports are true, that China maybe misled the world at the beginning?”