- USA, Pompeo's accusations against China: "The virus comes from Wuhan's laboratory"
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04 May 2020 The theses of the American secretary of state Mike Pompeo on the origin in a Chinese coronavirus laboratory are "crazy", reaffirmed on Sunday in an interview with the ABC. The official Chinese media reported it.With China stopped for the May 1st holiday, it was the turn of the state television CCTV to attack in the evening edition of the news, the most followed, the "crazy and evasive observations" of the American secretary of state on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, falls like petrol on the fire in the already complex and difficult Sino-American relations.
Pompeo had told ABC that "enormous evidence" has shown that the virus originated in a laboratory in China , reinforcing its previous claims which, however, have been denied several times by the WHO and various scientific experts.
In an editorial, the Global times, tabloid of the people's daily newspaper ('voice' of the communist party) urged Pompeo today to "present these so-called tests to the world, and in particular to the American public who are constantly trying to deceive. The truth is that Pompey has no proof, and in the interview, he was bluffing. " The Trump administration "continues to engage in an unprecedented propaganda war as it tries to prevent global efforts in the fight" against the pandemic.