China News Service, Chengdu, July 25. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with reporters in Chengdu, Sichuan, with Finnish Foreign Minister Haavisto on the 25th.

A reporter asked how China views a small number of countries using the issue of the traceability of the new crown virus to smear China.

　　Wang Yi said that the source of the virus is a serious scientific issue.

Scientists should be allowed to study the source of the new coronavirus clearly, so as to better prevent future risks.

All the foreign ministers I have met agree that traceability should not be manipulated by politics, not to blame a certain country, let alone divide the international community.

Only when we unite can we truly defeat the virus.

　　Wang Yi said, but we have seen that from openly calling the virus the "Wuhan virus" last year to outrageously withdrawing from the WHO, the United States has tried to politicize the epidemic, stigmatize the virus, instrument its traceability, and even ignore it from the very beginning. Scientists’ hard work has switched to using intelligence methods to trace the source and hype the “laboratory leak theory” based on the presumption of guilt.

The purpose of the United States is very clear. It is to shift responsibility for its ineffective fight against the epidemic and achieve the political purpose of discrediting and suppressing other countries.

It is necessary to remember this ugly page in the history of mankind's fight against the epidemic.

　　Wang Yi emphasized that China has always participated in international traceability cooperation with an open attitude.

We have twice invited WHO experts to China to conduct joint research on traceability, and we have made great efforts to this end.

The experts went to all the places they wanted to go, met all the people they wanted to see, made a scientific conclusion that "a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely", and proposed "searching for possible early cases on a global scale" and "research cold". The possibility of chain transmission of viruses" and other important suggestions.

The next stage of traceability work should continue to extend on this basis, and various early cases that have been discovered in many countries and points around the world have been studied.

A few days ago, Chinese medical experts and scientific research experts held a press conference to clarify a series of rumors with facts and data, and expressed China's solemn position with a scientific attitude.

　　Wang Yi pointed out that the source of the new coronavirus must be traced, and the source of the political virus must also be traced.

A few days ago, the WHO Secretariat put forward the second-stage traceability plan for discussion by member states, which surprised scientists. It not only deviated from the requirements of the 73rd World Health Assembly resolution, but also ignored the conclusions and recommendations of the first-stage joint research report .

It seems that when the United States returns to the World Health Organization, its mind is not focused on joining the international fight against the epidemic, but on continuing to use Taiwan to spread various political viruses.

If any work plan is not a plan to find the virus, but a plan to discredit China, as an independent sovereign country, China will not and cannot accept it.

Not only China, but nearly 60 countries have written to the WHO so far, agreeing with the first-stage traceability research results and opposing the politicization of traceability.

　　Wang Yi reiterated that on the issue of traceability, we must cooperate and not discredit; we must truth, not lies; we must respect science and not political manipulation.

China is willing to uphold the spirit of openness, transparency, science and cooperation, and continue to support and participate in global traceability cooperation.

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