According to Taiwan's United News Network reported on August 28, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of the United States issued a "new crown virus traceability investigation report" points, believing that the current new crown virus originated from the natural world and laboratory leakage of the two possibilities can not be ruled out. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu criticized this as a "political report" and a "false report," and the Chinese side has expressed its resolute opposition and has made solemn representations to the US side.
Ma Chaoxu said that the traceability of the new crown virus is a complex scientific issue, which should and can only be carried out by global scientists to carry out research.
The report quoted him as saying: "They can't come up with any real evidence, but they have repeatedly fabricated lies and smeared and accused China." Ma Zhaoxu said that their purpose is to use the traceability problem to "throw the pot" to China and spread the political virus.
Ma Chaoxu said that the US side accused China of being opaque and uncooperative on the issue of traceability, "which is completely blind talk." China attaches great importance to and actively participates in global scientific cooperation on traceability, and in line with the principles of science, openness and transparency, it has twice invited WHO experts to China to carry out virus traceability research.
He said that on the issue of traceability, it is precisely the United States that is not transparent, irresponsible and uncooperative. So far, the US side has refused to respond to the international community's reasonable doubts about the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory and more than 200 overseas biological experimental bases in the United States, in an attempt to cover up the truth and evade responsibility. The United States has a responsibility and an obligation to give the world an account.
According to Reuters Washington reported on August 27, US officials said in a declassified summary of the report on the 27th that the US intelligence agency believes that if it cannot grasp more information, it cannot make a judgment on whether the source of the new coronavirus is a "laboratory leak".
The Chinese Embassy in the United States issued a statement saying that the US report slandered the Chinese side for obstructing the investigation, and that the report was "fabricated by the intelligence departments and has no scientific or credible degree of credibility."
According to the report, the statement also criticized the US government for "keeping its own traceability secretive and closing the traceability door to death."
At a time when U.S.-China relations are at a decades-low, the summary of the report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is bound to exacerbate the discord between The United States and China. In the United States, activists fear the investigation could fuel violence against Asians.
The U.S. report also shows the extent of disagreement within the Biden administration over the so-called laboratory leak theory.
The report summarises that several agencies in the U.S. intelligence community believe that the new coronavirus originates from natural human contact with animals infected with the virus or its similar viruses. Other institutions simply cannot form any definitive view of the origin of the virus.
In addition, according to Agence France-Presse Washington reported on August 28, the Chinese Embassy in the United States slammed the findings of the US intelligence community, accusing the United States of vainly attempting to make a "presumption of guilt" against China.
Source: Reference News Network