BEIJING: China has issued a lengthy rebuttal of what it said were 24 “preposterous allegations” by some leading US politicians over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Chinese foreign ministry has dedicated most of its press briefings over the past week to rejecting accusations by US politicians, especially Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that China had withheld information about the new coronavirus and that it had originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan. READ: China accuses Pompeo of telling lies over its handling of COVID-19 pandemic A 30-page, 11,000-word article posted on the ministry website on Saturday night (May 9) repeated and expanded on the refutations made during the press briefings, and began by invoking Abraham Lincoln, the 19th century US president. “As Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all the time and fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” it said in the prologue. The article also cited media reports that said Americans had been infected with the virus before the first case was confirmed in Wuhan. There is no evidence to suggest that is the case. Keen to quash US suggestions that the virus was deliberately created… Read full this story
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