On the Ground in Wuhan, Signs of China Stalling Probe of Coronavirus Origins

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Beijing now appears to be stalling international efforts to find the source of the coronavirus

WUHAN, China — Around 1 a.m. on Dec. 31, Lu Junqing woke to a phone call from his boss at a local disinfection company. Get a team together and head to the Huanan market, he was told: “Bring your best kit.”

Mr. Lu knew the market, a sprawling maze of stalls near a railway station, but had no clue it was the suspected source of a mysterious illness spreading across this city, later identified as Covid-19.

 

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China is corrupt it's a communist regime with it's own agenda, would not invest in China, never have never will while this corrupt regime is in power.

Instead of fighting they should focus on containment maybe US should create a (((PLAN)))

has the war started yet?

allegations? check facts! Fort Detrck reported in 2015 successful test of covid prototype on human lung, conclusion was it can cause heavy pneumonia

Trump said US start research vaccine from Jan 11th, even earlier than the time that China public the genetic map. What's that means? That means US know the virus earlier than China

If it’s not originated in China, why is it so afraid of an international probe?

Dump China

WuhanVirusMadeInChina ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied

If you think there are problems now wait till people have to get to the airport 4 hours ahead for a flight. The People know who to blame.

They portrayed each other as demons, and they themselves played the hero of saving the world

TheSheilaG2020 It came from Wuhan, China. There.. Solved the mystery.

Don’t you know the nickname for Covid-19? Chinese virus.

I wonder if President Trump will further stifle trade with China - that will really put a hole in our economy

Just going to leave this here.....

ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied died.

DOES NOT MATTER WHERE IT CAME FROM!...TRUMP COULD HAVE WARDED IT OFF IN THE UNITED STATES IF HE HAD HEEDED A WARNING...INSTEAD IN 2017, HE DISMANTLED PANDEMIC AGENCY FIRED EXPERTS ...THEN CALLED WARNING A HOAX FOR 2 1/2 MONTHS IN 2020...VIRUS'S CAN ORIGINATE FROM ANY COUNTRY..

美国猪流感?美国艾滋病?不知道我这么说是否合适?这种科学的问题竟然不是从科学家的嘴里发声,这个问题是否是当前的主要矛盾?似乎救人更要紧?

the relations have not deteriorated. The US is trying to fight rise of China by engaging in blame game and reducing int. market competition by waging trade war.

MakechinaPay

Nah. Chinese people aren’t petty like trump

Nazi China is enemy of civilized humanity

Make your bet!...Where did it come from? :)))

America is just using China as an excuse because Trump Administration is very poor on the fighting against the virus.

it was always a scientific endeavor, till trump wants it to be political.

Wuhan coronavirus comes from China. That’s factual, not alleged.

Не круто..

SolomonYue While it should embrace an independent investigation with open arms to clear all issues, it doesn’t. This is the answer! CCPLiedPeopleDied

SolomonYue What a shocker i am sure Beijing Biden supports it

SolomonYue

SolomonYue They have been doing so since Dec when they chose to silent the doctors; or when they destroy all evidences in the wet market before letting experts from China and Hong Kong in (one expert literally said 'you cleaned up everything what do you expect me to look for')

Of course they are stalling, Because they KNOW the Source already! CHINA!Any American that backs China in any way is not American at ALL! We as Americans should stand together and behind OUR PRESIDENT regardless of PARTY! Especially when another country is trying to TAKE US OUT!

CCP is attempting to mislead others about the source of COVID19 through pro-Beijing medias, FB, IG, Twitter, WeChat. Numerous non-educated people trust what CCP said. As information is filtered in China, China's citizens absolutely trust CCP. FB, IG is tool for CCP to mislead.

Not now. It’s been happening

These are all Fauci pet projects. Remdesivir created for Ebola. And has not been 100% at that. Fauci has a giant lab, we are his test subjects. From creating to manufacturing the viruses to finding a cure/vaccine. All roads lead to BillGates Birx China What happened to Zika?

Beijing is destroying the evidence.

Signs the U.S. is stalling the reduction of deaths and economic disaster from Covid-19? Masks and other PPE, better tests, test sampling, critical data analysis, traceability, ... All Trump failures. Our reality show clown has no concern for public health

CCP says it doesn't know the origin and should leave it to experts, but on the other hand rejected independent inquiry Logic failed 🙄

Is anyone surprised?

Seems like a very intelligent strategic move on China’s part. Working in conjunction with Russia to sow even more division into democracy. Democracy is what they all fear the most.

Looks like an interesting story. Too bad you are not making your pandemic stories free to the public.

Afraid of the truth?

China has been going crazy to suppress coronavirus inquiry and point the fingers at US/Italy. Independent investigation is the only way for us to find out the truth and prevent another pandemic in the future. ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied

Beijing always lies.

But the media has directed the anger instead of at china towards trump. China and the u.s media together have given china everything they wanted in biden. They have played the u.s seniors electorate perfectly. They are now all TEAM CHINA

Beijing always claims that WuhanCoronaVirus was not originated from China. Then, why it refuses international investigation?🙂 ChinaLiedPeopleDied

Many of pro-china send out fake news blame America made the virus, after they blame French made the virus China they want made people confuse who made it We always complain in Facebook, but they didn’t do anything

We all hv the rights to know the truth ! CCPLiedPeopleDied CCP_is_terrorist ChineseVirus19

Beijing is lying, the world knows Beijing is lying, Beijing knows the world knows Beijing is lying, that’s it.

Really? What a surprise. China is the enemy of the World

China is no longer a trustworthy partner to build a reliable, safe, civilized & peaceful world. CCP brings lies, censorship, torture & virus to the world. Int companies in China should find a new partner now. World is much better w/o CCP.

China may plan to shirk responsibility on this. They co-op w/ WHO to conceal the truth of WuhanVirus outbreak and refusing virus experts to offer help. & now want to give help to countries who are suffering from their mistake. Hold them accountable.

The outbreak started in China & be under controlled when rest of world be infected by WuhanCoronavius. Growth rate of transparent countries is significant which is different from that in China (data probably controlled too). Lies of China never stop.

Any surprise?

Fake news.

We all know the source of the Coronavirus.

Granted virus is not man-made, it's natural, but doesn't discount an accidental leak of the natural virus lab was researching.

CCP destroy the COVID19 virus sample and closed wet market. Wipe out the evidence. CCPLiedPeopleDied CCPVirus

Have delayed,lied, hacked, spied, stolen...

emmm 'appear'. What a convenient word.

Because they are the source !

More state propaganda to support your dear leader.

The world must try to expose China's foul play. As a citizen of Hong Kong, a city fighting for democracy under the CCP, I can tell you for sure: if u don't stop China's bullying right here, there's plenty more where that came from

“Appears” are you really this naive or just stupid?

Try the virology lab in Wuhan?

The source of coronavirus is in Wuhan that’s why the virus also known as WuhanVirus

Just because it was not engineered does not mean it was not selected from in the lab Interview former lab scientists. Look up on LinkedIn. There was sloppy stuff going in in those labs. Lab animals were sold at market.

China knew the virus and they decided to cover it up, and it eventually becomes pandemic. ChinaVirus WuhanVirus ChinaLiedPeopleDied Chinazi

Never Trust CCP CCP don't allow foreign reporters or gov'ts to find out the truth about WuhanVirus, but they must be forced to tell the Index Case & whether it is leaked from lab. They should be held accountable & businesses should move out & not use their 5G. ChinaMustPay

China rejected investigation from US ,but thoes from WHO are allowed

Captain obvious

a bioweapons lab in North Carolina

China's fault. MAKECHINAPAY

Of course the Wall street journal fake news will say this🤣

The CPC has shown that authoritarian govts aren't just a curse on its own people but also a risk to the entire world, there should be extreme pressure put on the Chinese, don't let them get away with murder!

Why shouldn’t they stall. They should until and unless Trump administration stalls blaming and using incendiary calls with an apology they should show no interests at all.

America is always interested in other countries internal policies while at home, the death toll from covid 19 is already over 80k.

fake news

It is a good idea to let the scientists to investigate it. Believe in the science not rumor.

Shocker.

If there’s one thing the American left and right can agree on right now is fuck China. (Of course for the left this means their BS secretive commie govt. For the right.....🤷‍♀️)

Is so fucking obviously

听你妈放屁呢?你亲眼见到的?

Hmm....

what do you think ?

China knew about this pandemic year ahead unfortunately they choose to hide information.

If US knows the truth, why even bother with an investigation

China always stall efforts and hides information. It's sort of their thing. Thus why we developed back channels into intelligence. China, like Trump, suppresses facts to save face and always come out on top and smelling like a rose. Nothing new here.

They'll only admit to it being made there if they can first 'prove' that they actually stole it from somewhere else, just like everything else that comes out of that country. NoMoreMadeInchina

That's nice. I'll follow up with some outlets that don't hew to the 'Wuhan virus' BS, since right wing sources tend to manufacture stories for the idiot, Donald Trump.

They are going solo, or making their minds up about who to pledge alliance to... JustinTrudeau POTUS realDonaldTrump GiuseppeConteIT

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