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China says 'immoral and irresponsible' U.S. officials shift coronavirus blame

 

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FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China criticised U.S. officials for “immoral and irresponsible” comments that blamed Beijing’s response to the coronavirus for worsening the global impact of the pandemic.

 

On Wednesday, U.S. national security advisor Robert O’Brien accused China of a slow response to the initial emergence of the coronavirus, saying this had probably cost the world two months when it could have been preparing for the outbreak.

 

Asked about O’Brien’s comments, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news conference in Beijing on Thursday that “immoral and irresponsible” remarks by certain officials would not help U.S. epidemic efforts.

 

China’s efforts to slow the spread had bought the world time to prepare against the epidemic, said Geng.

 

“We wish that a few officials in the U.S. would at this time concentrate their energy on responding to the virus and promoting cooperation, and not on shifting the blame to China.”

 

The coronavirus emerged in December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province, where around two thirds of global cases so far have been recorded. But in recent weeks the vast majority of new cases have been outside China.

 

The Chinese authorities credit firm measures they took in January and February, including to a near total shutdown of Hubei, for preventing outbreaks in other Chinese cities on the scale of Wuhan and slowing the spread abroad.

 

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has pointed to a decision to limit air travel from China at the end of January to fend off criticism that it responded too slowly to the disease. Critics say Trump played down the disease in public and the federal government was slow to roll out tests.

 

“Unfortunately, rather than using best practices, this outbreak in Wuhan was covered up,” Trump’s national security advisor O’Brien said during a think-tank appearance on Wednesday.

 

“It probably cost the world community two months to respond,” during which “we could have dramatically curtailed what happened both in China and what’s now happening across the world,” he said.

 

More than 119,100 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 4,298 have died, the vast majority in China, according to a Reuters tally. The United States has 975 cases and 30 people have died.

 

“We have done a good job responding to it but ... the way that this started out in China, and the way it was handled from the outset, was not right,” said O’Brien.

 

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2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Of course, if you don't buy the animals to humans theory, there's always the conspiracy theory about the virus having originated in and been released from the Chinese bio lab in the Wuhan area.

Maybe lab origin then released into animals destined for human consumption theory?

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3 hours ago, ukrules said:

This is going to turn into a financial issue in the coming years.

 

China will be made to pay dearly for the creation (regardless of source) and subsequent cover up followed by the export of this virus around the world.

 

Think of war reparations, they will pay one way or another. Probably in the form of punitive taxes.

100%, if that group thinks they'll just CCP their way out of financial blow back down the road, they're sadly mistaken. They'll be receiving some worldly invoices and they'll pay them, one way or another. 

 

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13 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Fascinating report. Thanks for sharing. 

 

It is still possible that test animals that had been infected with the virus at the lab were sold of to vendors at the market rather than incinerate the animals at the lab.

Human greed can be creative in China.

Any analysis, prevention control etc. must come from experimentation. (indeed the 4th paragraph of the said report confirms this). There are various methods of disposal after experiments such as incineration, chemicals etc. along with tight controls and monitoring. The latter are probably the most expensive part of disposal procedures and where mistakes can happen.

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3 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

With sick statements like this, the Commies might not realise it, but they are uniting the west against China.

 

 

Just settle down there Herbert Hoover.  

 

"Commies"  ????

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8 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

With sick statements like this, the Commies might not realise it, but they are uniting the west against China.

 

 

 

That's extraordinary. A chinese government official is seriously suggesting the American Army brought the virus to Wuhan, without providing any evidence whatsoever.

 

He does have a point though about one thing, the US has not published info on patient zero in the US. Or has it?

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