Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, compared the version of the laboratory origin of the coronavirus infection with the false accusations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
– The origin of COVID-19 is a scientific issue, and it should be studied jointly by scientists around the world, and not politicized … The campaign aimed at politicizing the study of the origin and discrediting China is no different from the lie that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, sounded 12 years ago, – he wrote on his Twitter.
Pengyu added that any conclusion about the origin of COVID-19 must be made in accordance with WHO procedures and be scientifically based.
Earlier, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the United States insists on the need to conduct a “transparent investigation” of the causes that led to the spread of coronavirus around the world, and China should also participate in this investigation. She added that Beijing from the very beginning “was not transparent” on the origin of the coronavirus, and now the PRC authorities “have the opportunity to become transparent” and provide information that Americans would like to have access to.
