A U.S. military protests Chinese ambassador
Following a post on Twitter about a new coronavirus, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry posted on Twitter that `` it may have been brought by the U.S. military to China, '' a U.S. State Department official called on Chinese ambassador to the United States to protest. did.
"The infectious disease may have been brought to Wuhan by the U.S. military," a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Zhang posted on Twitter on Wednesday.
In response, Assistant Secretary of State Stillwell, who is in charge of the East Asian region at the US State Department, called on the State Department to call on China's Ambassador to China Choi Tiankai to the United States.
A State Department official told NHK interviews that "Secretary Stillwell explained the facts in very strong terms, and the ambassador was just one side of the defense," and "expanding conspiracy theories is dangerous and ridiculous." And the United States wanted to announce that it would not tolerate it. "