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Chinese diplomat accuses US Army of delivering coronavirus to Wuhan

Chinese diplomat fueled interest in conspiracy theory that the United States is behind the coronavirus epidemic in the world, reports Quartz.

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Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Zhao Lijian wrote on Twitter yesterday, March 12, that it was probably the American army that delivered the coronavirus to China. With this statement, he gave an official impetus to the conspiracy theory, which was discussed for several weeks on Chinese social networks.

The theory suggests that 300 athletes from the U.S. Army, who in October participated in the 7th World War Games in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, were infected with this virus, as a result of which it began to spread in China.

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Zhao’s commentary was followed by a video from a U.S. Congress hearing this week about the epidemic. Robert Redfield, director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in a video: it was discovered that some patients who were previously thought to have died of the flu actually died from complications after being infected with coronavirus. The video became popular on the Chinese social network Weibo. Many comment that they are now firmly convinced that the United States has concealed facts related to the epidemic.

Zhao, who was recently promoted to the post of spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after gaining a reputation as a diplomat, often “attacking” the US in his remarks, was blocked by some of Twitter users. They accused him of disgracing the Chinese government and spreading conspiracy theories on a resource banned in China.

Today, he shared two Global Research articles that claim to be an independent research and media organization based in Montreal that there is further evidence of coronavirus in the United States.

“This article is very important for each of us. Please read and remember it,” Zhao wrote, calling on the US to reveal the whole truth about the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak and about the “patient zero”, which, in his opinion, should have been in America, not in China.

The founder of Global Research is a Canadian economist who has in the past espoused conspiracy theories related to the H1N1 swine flu epidemic and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

At today's briefing for journalists, another spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Geng Shuang, said he would not comment on Zhao’s direct messages, but said that “the international community has different opinions” regarding the origin of the virus.

Conspiracy theories, which seek to prove that China is not the primary source of the virus, are becoming increasingly popular, and the Chinese authorities are helping them.

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The origin of coronavirus is a topic that politicians in the US are increasingly taking advantage of as the epidemic spreads in the country. For example, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on using the term Wuhan virus for the epidemic, and California Congressman Kevin McCarthy was criticized for using the phrase Chinese Coronavirus on Twitter.

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