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The US envoy to China has called on the country to be “more honest” about the origins of the Covid-19 virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n His comments come a day after US media reported a federal agency had found the pandemic probably started from a laboratory leak in Wuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China’s foreign ministry hit back that the global outbreak’s origin “was about science and should not be politicised”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Washington-Beijing ties have been under strain since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ambassador Nicholas Burns told a US Chamber of Commerce event on Monday that China needs to “be more honest about what happened three years ago in Wuhan with the origin of the Covid-19 crisis”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US media reported on Sunday that a report from the US Department of Energy had concluded in a classified intelligence report with “low confidence” that the virus was accidentally leaked by a laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The energy department had formerly said it was undecided on how the virus began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other US agencies have drawn differing conclusions, with varying degrees of confidence in their findings. The FBI in 2021 concluded with “moderate confidence” that the virus leaked from a lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other studies suggest it made the leap from animals to humans at Wuhan’s Huanan seafood and wildlife market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: The US envoy to China has called on the country to be “more honest” about the origins of the Covid-19 virus. His comments come a day after US media reported a federal agency had found the pandemic probably started from a laboratory leak in Wuhan. China’s foreign ministry hit back that the global outbreak’s origin “was about science and should not be politicised”. Washington-Beijing ties have been under strain since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon this month. Ambassador Nicholas Burns told a US Chamber of Commerce event on Monday that China needs to “be… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30492,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions\/30492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}