China restated its case that Covid-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its pandemic response released on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump\u2019s administration blamed a lab leak in China. <\/p>\n
The White House launched a Covid-19 website on April 18 in which it said the coronavirus came from a lab leak in China while criticizing former President Joe Biden, former top US health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization (WHO). <\/p>\n
In the white paper, released by the official Xinhua news agency, China accused the US of politicizing the matter of the origins of Covid-19. It cited a Missouri lawsuit which resulted in a $24 billion ruling against China for hoarding protective medical equipment and covering up the outbreak. <\/p>\n
China shared relevant information with the WHO and the international community in a timely manner, the white paper said, emphasizing that a joint study by the WHO and China had concluded that a lab leak was \u201cextremely unlikely.\u201d <\/p>\n
The US should not continue to \u201cpretend to be deaf and dumb,\u201d but should respond to the legitimate concerns of the international community, the white paper said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSubstantial evidence suggested the Covid-19 might have emerged in the United States earlier than its officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in China,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n
The CIA said in January the pandemic was more likely to have emerged from a lab in China than from nature, after the agency had for years said it could not reach a conclusion on the matter. It said it had \u201clow confidence\u201d in its new assessment and noted that both lab origin and natural origin remain plausible. <\/p>\n
An official at China\u2019s National Health Commission said the next step in origin-tracing work should focus on the US, according to Xinhua, which cited a statement about the white paper. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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