China dismisses FBI claims on COVID-19 lab-leak theory
U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.Responding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the U.S.
intelligence community was evidence enough of the "politicization of origin tracing.""By rehashing the lab-leak theory, the U.S.
will not succeed in discrediting China, and instead, it will only hurt its own credibility," Mao said."We urge the U.S. to respect science and facts ...
stop turning origin tracing into something about politics and intelligence, and stop disrupting social solidarity and origins cooperation," she said.READ MORE: China says it's been 'open and transparent' in search for COVID originsIn an interview with Fox News that aired Tuesday, Wray said, "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in (central China’s) Wuhan."An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory (C) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) "Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab," Wray said.Referring to efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, he added, "I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S.
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