U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday (April 11) accused the Chinese Communist government of not doing what it should have done in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, not telling global health experts about the virus, not getting experts into China in time to investigate and not sharing information in a timely manner.
In response to the WHO outbreak report’s failure to reveal the source of the virus, Blinken said he believes that the Chinese Communist Party knew the origin of the virus.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Blinken sounded a tougher tone than in the past about Beijing’s responsibility for the outbreak, The Hill said.
NBC host Chuck Todd asked, “Do you think China (the Chinese Communist Party) knows the answer (to the origin of the virus) to the question of the origin of the coronavirus (neo-coronavirus), which was not addressed in the initial World Health Organization report? Are they hiding it?”
“I think China (the Chinese Communist Party) knows.” Blinken replied, “I think that China (CCP) knows; it’s not doing what it needs to do in the early stages of the COVID outbreak, which is, in real time, give access to international experts, share information in real time, and provide real transparency in real time.”
One consequence of this, he added, was that the virus got out of control “at a much faster rate” and the results were worse.
“But it speaks to what we have to do now, Chuck, and it speaks to what China and other countries have to do now. As we respond to COVID-19, we must also build a stronger global health security system to ensure that this doesn’t happen again or, if it does, that we can mitigate it ….. This means a real commitment to transparency, information sharing and access to experts. It means strengthening the role of the WHO and reforming it so that it can do that. And China (Communist Party of China) has to play a role in that.”
In the interview, Blinken was asked if the U.S. would “ensure” that the specific source of the new coronavirus (coronavirus) is identified and released to the public.
Blinken responded, “I think we have to do that. Because we need to do that precisely so that we have a full understanding of what’s going on so that we have a better chance of preventing it from happening again. That’s why we need to get to the bottom of this.”
The World Health Organization’s report on its investigation into the origin of the virus came out March 30. The report failed to reach a definitive conclusion on the origin of the virus. The report defines the possibility of the virus leaking from the Wuhan laboratory as “highly unlikely” and concludes that it is “very likely” that the virus was transmitted from a bat to a human through another animal, while the possibility that the virus was transmitted directly from a bat to a human or through frozen food The possibility of the virus being transmitted directly from bats to humans or through frozen foods lies somewhere in the middle.
But this conclusion was condemned by experts and government officials in several countries. Critics have denounced the WHO mission as politicized and pressured by the Chinese Communist government, which did not do a fair job of examining the situation. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rushed to explain to WHO member states that the WHO mission to Wuhan, China, to study the origin of the virus had been blocked from obtaining data in China, and that the WHO mission had not adequately analyzed the possibility of a laboratory leak, so further investigation was needed and additional missions might be sent back to China. The investigation.
In a previous interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Blinken said the U.S. has “real concerns” about how the report was produced and how it was written, including concerns that Chinese Communist authorities “helped write the report.
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