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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there is "enormous evidence" that the new coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China Photo: AFP
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Pompeo says 'enormous evidence' virus came from Wuhan lab
Today 06:19 am JST 14 Comments
By Andrew Harnik
WASHINGTON
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that there was "enormous evidence" that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
"There is enormous evidence that this is where it began," he said on ABC's "This Week."
But while highly critical of China's handling of the matter, Pompeo declined to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released.
President Donald Trump has been increasingly critical of China's role in the pandemic, which has infected nearly 3.5 million people and killed more than 240,000 around the world.
He has insisted that Beijing recklessly concealed important information about the outbreak and demanded that Beijing be held "accountable."
News reports say Trump has tasked U.S. spies to find out more about the origins of the virus, at first blamed on a Wuhan market selling exotic animals like bats, but now thought possibly to be from a virus research laboratory nearby.
Pompeo, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told ABC that he agreed with a statement Thursday from the U.S. intelligence community in which it concurred "with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified."
But he went further than Trump, in citing "significant" and "enormous" evidence that the virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
"I think the whole world can see now, remember, China has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories," Pompeo said.
He said early Chinese efforts to downplay the coronavirus amounted to "a classic Communist disinformation effort. That created enormous risk."
"President Trump is very clear: we'll hold those responsible accountable."
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To all reading this post: The USA is certainly scapegoating China for CoVID-19. I have read about the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan and I know how frantically the scientists there headed by Dr. Shi have tried to find out the source of SARS virus and during the process found that the new virus also belongs to the same group. The benevolent Dr. Shi has found the main source of CoVID-19 is bats.
The PRC has already banned trades in exotic animals including bats and laboratories throughout the developed world are now nearing to finding out a functional vaccine. Chinese scientists have successfully experimented with eight monkeys. I hope China will be the fore contributor to create vaccine along with the Oxford University laboratory of the UK.
I personally deplore the USA for making an ill-effort to criminalize China when it did not commit the crime. President Trump needs to win the next election and that says why the US govt scapegoating China.
It is the next US election that is targeted by Trump and gong to tarnish the Chinese image. Bats or something else is responsible for the virus and it is not man made. So, why China should be defamed unless the target is the US election? Trump administration is creating matters out of blue sky. Another Big Bang that will fall on the face of America itself because no one believes what Trump/Pompeo says.the news from this video, good half news