China Takes on New Rhetoric to Blame the US for Pandemic

People wearing masks wait next to their suitcases at the Beijing railway station in Beijing on Jan. 27, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Beijing has again peddled the unproven theory that the CCP virus may have originated in the United States.

Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said at a daily briefing on Jan. 18 that the U.S. government should invite experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) to “conduct origin-tracing” in the United States, implying that the source of the virus could be in the United States.