{"id":1872876,"date":"2023-03-09T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-laughs-off-chinese-letter-imploring-senator-to-halt-covid-19-origin-act\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:31:48","slug":"hawley-laughs-off-chinese-letter-imploring-senator-to-halt-covid-19-origin-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-laughs-off-chinese-letter-imploring-senator-to-halt-covid-19-origin-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawley laughs off Chinese letter imploring senator to halt COVID-19 Origin Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhawley-laughs-off-chinese-letter-imploring-senator-to-halt-covid-19-origin-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1872876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78379539\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"US to relax COVID-19 restrictions for those traveling from China\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The United States is planning to relax COVID-19 restrictions for travelers entering the country from China as soon as Friday. The change in approach is due to declining cases, hospitalizations, and deaths caused by the virus, as well as additional data concerning the variants in the Asian country, according to CNN. The U.S.'s approach since Jan. 5, after Beijing's loosening of coronavirus restrictions led to a surge in cases, has been that all travelers from China need to show a negative COVID-19 test result before flying to the U.S.\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M27S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-08 16:03:18\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/1257676_th_1678291443.jpg640a176164466.jpg\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1257676.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_78379539\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1257676\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\"><\/span> An official from China sent Sen. Josh Hawley (R.MO) a note in which he criticised his bill. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/lawmakers-demand-biden-declassify-covid-origins-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declassify information regarding the origins of COVID-19<\/a> And imploring Senator Missouri to withdraw the bill from consideration. <\/p>\n<p>Li Xiang is a Chinese Consul with the United States Embassy. She demanded Hawley rescind the bill. The lawmaker was accused of politicizing <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\">COVID-19<\/a> blaming the Chinese government for the pandemic. It is an answer to Hawley&#8217;s COVID-19 Origin Act. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/spy-community-mum-intel-covid-origins-gop-demands-declassification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declassify information<\/a> so lawmakers can prevent another pandemic from happening in the future. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/lawmakers-demand-biden-declassify-covid-origins-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAWMAKERS DEMAND BIDEN DECLASSIFY COVID ORIGINS INVESTIGATIONS<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The bill] falsely claimed that the COVID-19 corona virus originated from Wuhan Institute of Virology, accuses China of blocking international investigations, refusing to share information and lacking transparency etc. and required the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID-19,&#8221; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liz_elkind\/status\/1633856145730293761?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Li wrote<\/a>. &#8220;China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hawley replied on Thursday to the email, and laughed at it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese government wrote to me and demanded I withdraw my Covid origins bill,&#8221; He <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1633857778333757442?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;Hahaha. Not a chance.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hawley&#8217;s bill was specifically targeted by the Chinese official for being a statement of a &#8220;reason to believe&#8221; It was believed that the pandemic began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. However, this theory has been rejected. &#8220;extremely unlikely.&#8221; Li referred to the World Health Organization report that determined that there was a laboratory leak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/hawley-laughs-off-chinese-letter-halt-coronavirus-origins-bill\">Hawley laughs off Chinese letter imploring senator to halt COVID-19 Origin Act<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official from China sent Sen. Josh Hawley (R.MO) a note in which he criticised his bill. declassify information regarding the origins of COVID-19 And imploring Senator Missouri to withdraw the bill from consideration. Li Xiang is a Chinese Consul with the United States Embassy. She demanded Hawley rescind the bill. 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