“I didn’t appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them,” Trump said. And last week, Zhao Lijian, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, shared the conspiracy theory that the United States was behind the virus. Attempts to ascribe the virus to one culture, ethnicity or country can only hinder this effort, alienating people who could instead collaborate and support one another.”Characteristically defiant in the face of criticism, the president’s allies joined him Wednesday in defending his references to a Chinese virus. In a press briefing Tuesday, Pompeo six times referred to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus,” after the city that was the epicenter of the virus in China. “We know this much: We know that the first government to be aware of the Wuhan virus was the Chinese government,” Pompeo said.

Source: bd News24 March 19, 2020 03:33 UTC