Biden Admin Says No Immediate Plans to Confront China Over COVID-19 Origins

Biden Admin Says No Immediate Plans to Confront China Over COVID-19 Origins
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on June 7, 2021. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Isabel van Brugen
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The Biden administration won’t take immediate action on China to pressure the country’s communist regime to allow an independent probe into whether COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on June 20.

During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sullivan said no pressure will be applied on Beijing immediately on the issue, explaining that President Joe Biden’s administration is operating on “two tracks” in terms of attempting to determine the origins of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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