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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 292015" data-attributes="member: 389"><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-diplomat-promotes-conspiracy-theory-that-us-military-brought-virus-to-wuhan/ar-BB117L5m?ocid=primedhp" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-diplomat-promotes-conspiracy-theory-that-us-military-brought-virus-to-wuhan/ar-BB117L5m?ocid=primedhp</a></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">A prominent Chinese official has promoted a conspiracy theory that the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China -- and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span> <span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"> <img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB118BwF.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=494&y=263" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="color: #000000">© Andy Wong/AP</span> Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, on February 24.</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Posting to his more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian republished a video of Robert Redfield, the director for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, addressing a US Congressional committee on March 11. </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">In the clip, Redfield said some influenza deaths in the US were later identified as cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4860650/user-clip-diagnosed-flu-covid-19" target="_blank"> the novel coronavirus</a>.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Redfield didn't say when those people had died or over what time period, but Zhao pointed to his remarks in support of a growing conspiracy theory that the coronavirus did not originate in Hubei province in central China. He did not offer any further evidence for the claim.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">"CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!" the Foreign Ministry official said.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Hundreds of athletes from the US military were in Wuhan for<a href="http://english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2019-10/15/content_9652122.htm" target="_blank"> the Military World Games</a> in October 2019.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">The video of Redfield was also published to Twitter by other state media outlets, including national broadcaster CCTV and the popular Global Times tabloid.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">On Friday, Zhao's fellow Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said there were "varied opinions" on the origin of the virus in the international community.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">"China always considers this a scientific question, which should be addressed in a scientific and professional manner," he said, avoiding questions on whether Zhao's tweet represented the Chinese government's official position.</span></span></p><p>[h=3]Origin theories[/h]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Parts of Chinese social media, and even the country's government, appear to have launched a concerted campaign to question the origin of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 125,000 people globally.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">The first reported cases of the virus were in Wuhan, and since then the city has had more infections and deaths than anywhere in the world.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Speaking in his official capacity at a press conference in Beijing on March 4, Zhao told reporters that "no conclusion has been reached yet on the origin of the virus" -- and Chinese scientists were still tracing where it came from.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"> </p> </p></p> <p style="text-align: left"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">On February 27, renowned Chinese infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan also questioned where the coronavirus had come from<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UILmnQNeDuE" target="_blank">.</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">"The infection was first spotted in China but the virus may not have originated in China," Zhong said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UILmnQNeDuE" target="_blank">at a press conference</a>.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">On Thursday, Hua Chunying, Zhao's boss who heads the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Information, tweeted a link to Redfield's testimony, saying it was "absolutely wrong and inappropriate to call this <a href="https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1238003509510856704" target="_blank">the Chinese coronavirus."</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">China's ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, took to Twitter on March 8 to say that although the first epidemic was recorded in China, it didn't mean the virus <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbLINSongtian/status/1236322524281044993?s=20" target="_blank">"originated from China."</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">However, Zhao's colleague Geng cautioned Thursday that the origin of the virus could only be determined "by science."</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">"We don't hope to see anyone making an issue out of this to stigmatize other countries," he said. "With COVID-19 developing into a pandemic, the world should come together to fight it instead of leveling accusations and attacks against each other, which is not constructive at all." </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p>[h=3]Twitter diplomacy[/h]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Zhao's comments are another example of Chinese government figures using Twitter to defend China against criticism -- despite the platform being banned in the country, along with Facebook, Instagram and a number of other prominent Western social media sites. </span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Prior to 2019, few Chinese officials had verified Twitter accounts. But since then, ambassadors, mission heads and Chinese foreign ministry spokespeople across the world have joined Twitter.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">In January, Chinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming weighed in on the UK's decision on whether or not to ban telecommunications giant <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbLiuXiaoMing/status/1213616213487697920?s=20" target="_blank">Huawei from its 5G networks on Twitter.</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the US, took to Twitter in December to deny accusations of human rights abuses against <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbCuiTiankai/status/1202423623908315138" target="_blank">Muslim-majority Uyghurs in Xinjiang.</a> "Ultimately, facts will always prevail over lies," he tweeted.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit">Zhao was <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3024180/chinese-diplomat-zhao-lijian-known-his-twitter-outbursts-given" target="_blank">promoted in mid 2019</a> after building a reputation for himself on Twitter as a fierce advocate for Chinese interests -- arguing with western politicians and blocking Beijing's critics -- during his time as a senior diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Pakistan.</span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>The headline and first line of this story have been updated to better characterize the claim by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman.</em></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen, post: 292015, member: 389"] [URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-diplomat-promotes-conspiracy-theory-that-us-military-brought-virus-to-wuhan/ar-BB117L5m?ocid=primedhp[/URL] [LEFT][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']A prominent Chinese official has promoted a conspiracy theory that the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China -- and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'] [IMG]https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB118BwF.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=494&y=263[/IMG][COLOR=#666666] [COLOR=#000000]© Andy Wong/AP[/COLOR] Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, on February 24.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Posting to his more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian republished a video of Robert Redfield, the director for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, addressing a US Congressional committee on March 11. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']In the clip, Redfield said some influenza deaths in the US were later identified as cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by[URL="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4860650/user-clip-diagnosed-flu-covid-19"] the novel coronavirus[/URL].[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT="Segoe UI"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Redfield didn't say when those people had died or over what time period, but Zhao pointed to his remarks in support of a growing conspiracy theory that the coronavirus did not originate in Hubei province in central China. He did not offer any further evidence for the claim.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']"CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!" the Foreign Ministry official said.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Hundreds of athletes from the US military were in Wuhan for[URL="http://english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2019-10/15/content_9652122.htm"] the Military World Games[/URL] in October 2019.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']The video of Redfield was also published to Twitter by other state media outlets, including national broadcaster CCTV and the popular Global Times tabloid.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']On Friday, Zhao's fellow Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said there were "varied opinions" on the origin of the virus in the international community.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']"China always considers this a scientific question, which should be addressed in a scientific and professional manner," he said, avoiding questions on whether Zhao's tweet represented the Chinese government's official position.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][h=3]Origin theories[/h][LEFT][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Parts of Chinese social media, and even the country's government, appear to have launched a concerted campaign to question the origin of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 125,000 people globally.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']The first reported cases of the virus were in Wuhan, and since then the city has had more infections and deaths than anywhere in the world.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Speaking in his official capacity at a press conference in Beijing on March 4, Zhao told reporters that "no conclusion has been reached yet on the origin of the virus" -- and Chinese scientists were still tracing where it came from.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][CENTER][CENTER] [/CENTER] [/CENTER] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']On February 27, renowned Chinese infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan also questioned where the coronavirus had come from[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UILmnQNeDuE"].[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']"The infection was first spotted in China but the virus may not have originated in China," Zhong said [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UILmnQNeDuE"]at a press conference[/URL].[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']On Thursday, Hua Chunying, Zhao's boss who heads the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Information, tweeted a link to Redfield's testimony, saying it was "absolutely wrong and inappropriate to call this [URL="https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1238003509510856704"]the Chinese coronavirus."[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']China's ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, took to Twitter on March 8 to say that although the first epidemic was recorded in China, it didn't mean the virus [URL="https://twitter.com/AmbLINSongtian/status/1236322524281044993?s=20"]"originated from China."[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']However, Zhao's colleague Geng cautioned Thursday that the origin of the virus could only be determined "by science."[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']"We don't hope to see anyone making an issue out of this to stigmatize other countries," he said. "With COVID-19 developing into a pandemic, the world should come together to fight it instead of leveling accusations and attacks against each other, which is not constructive at all." [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'] [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [h=3]Twitter diplomacy[/h][LEFT][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Zhao's comments are another example of Chinese government figures using Twitter to defend China against criticism -- despite the platform being banned in the country, along with Facebook, Instagram and a number of other prominent Western social media sites. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Prior to 2019, few Chinese officials had verified Twitter accounts. But since then, ambassadors, mission heads and Chinese foreign ministry spokespeople across the world have joined Twitter.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']In January, Chinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming weighed in on the UK's decision on whether or not to ban telecommunications giant [URL="https://twitter.com/AmbLiuXiaoMing/status/1213616213487697920?s=20"]Huawei from its 5G networks on Twitter.[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the US, took to Twitter in December to deny accusations of human rights abuses against [URL="https://twitter.com/AmbCuiTiankai/status/1202423623908315138"]Muslim-majority Uyghurs in Xinjiang.[/URL] "Ultimately, facts will always prevail over lies," he tweeted.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit']Zhao was [URL="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3024180/chinese-diplomat-zhao-lijian-known-his-twitter-outbursts-given"]promoted in mid 2019[/URL] after building a reputation for himself on Twitter as a fierce advocate for Chinese interests -- arguing with western politicians and blocking Beijing's critics -- during his time as a senior diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Pakistan.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT='inherit'][I]The headline and first line of this story have been updated to better characterize the claim by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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