{"id":665826,"date":"2021-08-20T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665826"},"modified":"2021-08-20T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:51:18","slug":"chinese-embassy-calls-for-who-investigation-of-u-s-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-embassy-calls-for-who-investigation-of-u-s-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Embassy Calls For WHO Investigation of U.S. Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fchinese-embassy-calls-for-who-investigation-of-u-s-lab%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=665826&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1227754433_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Chinese embassy called for a World Health Organization investigation into a United States military lab more than 7,500 miles away from the first documented cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu responded to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-promote-rap-song-blaming-us-for-coronavirus\/\">report<\/a> on a Chinese propaganda campaign that claims the coronavirus leaked from a military lab in Fort Detrick, Md., saying the campaign not only reflects &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; but also warrants a full WHO investigation into the U.S. military installation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;About Fort Detrick, the US has remained silent on the serious concerns raised by the international community, including US media,&#8221; Liu told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The US side must understand that the international community has every reason to raise questions about Fort Detrick, which has a poor track record and is notorious for breaches in lab and contaminant leak, and demand clarification and explanation from the US side and call on the WHO to conduct a thorough investigation into it. This requirement is not only for tracing the origin of COVID-19, but also for the safety of people in all countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Liu&#8217;s statement runs counter to mounting evidence that the coronavirus emerged from an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. According to an August congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/wuhan-scientists-genetically-manipulated-coronavirus-congressional-report-says\/\">report<\/a>, Chinese scientists had the capability to genetically manipulate coronaviruses &#8220;without leaving any trace of that modification&#8221; as early as 2016, and Beijing dispatched military officers to Wuhan in early 2020, suggesting a growing crisis in the city at the time. More than 600,000 Americans have died due to the coronavirus, and another 37 million have caught the disease.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The embassy spokesman said Beijing opposes &#8220;hyping&#8221; the Wuhan lab leak theory.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This February, a China-WHO joint expert team visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology and had in-depth and candid exchanges with experts there,&#8221; Liu said. &#8220;Members of the joint expert team spoke highly of the Institute&#8217;s openness and transparency, and reached a major conclusion in the joint study report that the allegation of lab leaking is extremely unlikely. The conclusion should be respected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese embassy called for a World Health Organization investigation into a United States military lab more than 7,500 miles away from the first documented cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1897431,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}