‘No Credibility Whatsoever’: China Dismisses FBI Lab Leak Theory Claim

China officials rejected Christopher Wray, FBI director,’s assessment that COVID’s origins most likely came from Wuhan’s laboratory. The bureau claimed that Wray was wrong.There is no credibility.“

Wray suggested that China was responsible for the COVID pandemic. Wray stated this during a Fox News interview Tuesday. He claimed the bureau has classified material supporting his claim. Wray stated that the FBI has agents who are focused on biological threats and novel viruses.

Mao Ning, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that China had responded to Wray’s comments. “strongly opposes political manipulation of the origins-tracing issue in any form.”

“Putting the intelligence community in charge for a matter of science is a clear sign that the issue has been politicized,” Ning . “Given the U.S. intelligence community’s track record of making up stories, there is little, if any, credibility in their conclusions.”

“The U.S. will not succeed in discrediting China by rehashing the “Leakage in the lab” theory, but will only hurt the U.S.’s own reputation,” Ning added.

Ning also addressed the U.S. House Special Committee on China on Tuesday. This committee examines the strategic threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

“We call on relevant US institutions and individuals to abandon their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality, develop an objective and rational perception of China and US-China relations, stop framing China as a threat based on disinformation, stop denigrating the Communist Party of China, and stop trying to score political points at the expense of US-China relations,” Ning said.

Wray also accused the Chinese government “doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate” The work of the U.S.

Wray’s comments come after U.S. Department of Energy employees revised a document that had been deemed unacceptable. “low confidence” According to The Wall Street Journal the virus had leaked out of a Chinese laboratory.

The White House and other key members of Congress received new classified intelligence that showed Energy Department officials had changed their assessment about the origins of the pandemic in an updated 2021 report prepared by Avril Haines’s Office, Director of National Intelligence. The updated classified report confirms that COVID was not caused by a biological weapons program. Researchers and U.S. officials suspect that there was a leak from Wuhan’s assemblage of laboratories because they lack a definitive source of animal material, The Journal reported.

The Journal reports that the National Intelligence Council (and four other agencies), which officials deny identifying, continue to believe in one another “low confidence” In the natural emergence theory. According to reports, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and two other agencies have yet to make a determination.

Ning, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that “origins-tracing” The March 2021 report, published by China officials and World Health Organization officials, should be referred to for more information about the virus. It concluded with an “extremely unlikely” Verdict on the theory of lab leakage

Officials from the United Nations health agency only referenced the 2021 WHO China report. Newsweek reported Beijing officials. “appointed half the researchers on the mission, restricted the team’s access to critical data, and blocked WHO attempts to conduct a phase-two study that included a review of Wuhan’s surroundings.”

China officials have denied the responsibility repeatedly, deflecting assertions from many people, including former President Donald Trump. The WHO’s investigation into COVID’s origins was hampered by China’s inability to cooperate.

John Hopkins University and Medicine data show that over 6.8 million people with COVID died since the first cases were reported in Wuhan in December 2019.