After accusations that the virus source was Chinese meat delicacies like eating bats and snakes, China’s has begun to fight back with a massive PR campaign to convince the world that the United States bears the blame for the coronavirus outbreak.
BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said that the U.S. Army “might be” be responsible for bringing the coronavirus to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak first emerged late last year, reported Fox News.
Tweeting in English, foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian wrote: “CDC (US Centre for Disease Control) was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”
Zhao went on to suggest that it “might be [the] US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.
“Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation,” he wrote.
Days earlier, China’s ambassador to South Africa also downplayed his country’s role in the pandemic.
Although the epidemic first broke out in China, it did not necessarily mean that the virus is originated from China, let alone “made in China”.
“Although the epidemic first broke out in China, it did not necessarily mean that the virus originated from China, let alone ‘made in China,'” he tweeted.
After accusations that the virus source was Chinese meat delicacies like eating bats and snakes, China’s has begun to fight back with a massive PR campaign to convince the world that the United States bears the blame for the coronavirus outbreak.
The virus has claimed at least 4,700 lives around the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
The Chinese government has published a book, in multiple languages, boasting of the country’s efforts in curbing the deadly outbreak.
The book, “A Battle Against Epidemic: China Combatting COVID-19 in 2020,” mixes glowing state media reports on the accomplishments of President Xi Jinping and the dominance of China’s system in fighting the crisis.
Courtesy Fox News
