White House spokesman Jen Saki is holding a press conference at the White House briefing room in Washington on the 9th. Washington = AP Newsis
In the investigation of the first outbreak in Wuhan, China, in the confession of the World Health Organization (WHO) that it failed to identify the origin of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the US made a position that “it is still to come to a conclusion.” He rebuked the Chinese government for not cooperating sufficiently with the investigation.
According to a foreign press on the 9th (local time), White House spokesman Jen Saki said, “The US government was not involved in the planning and execution of this investigation.” I want to review it.” State Department spokesman Ned Price also said in a briefing that the WHO experts cannot conclude that they have received full cooperation from China. “The matter has not been concluded yet.” “I definitely think China hasn’t provided the necessary transparency, at least so far,” he said. “The United States will make decisions based on WHO data and its own information.”
This self-investigation possibility reveals the US still conviction that Corona 19 may have originated from China. For the sake of immunity, it is the US position that both China and the WHO, who have not been able to cross the wall, cannot be trusted. On the 27th of last month, a spokesman for Saki emphasized the finding of the truth about the theory of the origin of Corona 19 in China. Like the former Donald Trump administration, the Biden administration made it clear that the pandemic originated in China.
Peter Ben Embarek, a food safety and animal disease expert of the WHO, who led the’Corona 19 Origin Investigation Team’, held a press conference in Wuhan on the same day and said that although he received new information through field investigation, he did not dramatically change his understanding of Corona 19. . It was virtually acknowledging the failure to identify the origin. In particular, he dismissed some claims that the virus could have been leaked from the Wuhan Institute, saying, “The hypothesis that the virus was leaked from the laboratory by accident is unlikely and no further investigation is necessary.”
Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, who leads the World Health Organization’s’Corona 19 Origins Investigation Team’, is holding a chart showing the transmission route of the virus at a press conference in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on the 9th. Wuhan = AP Yonhap News
In the border dispute with India, “worries about the threat of Chinese neighbors”… Omnidirectional pressure
As a result of the WHO survey, the relevant position is part of the biden government’s stance of all-round pressure on China. It is in the same context that they are focusing on the acquisition of India. At a briefing, Price said in a briefing that the border dispute between India and China is being closely monitored and the United States is with allies and partners such as India, he said, “I am concerned about China’s continued attempts to threaten neighboring countries.” India and China have continued their nervous war after the conflict in Galwan Valley last June.
In addition, the State Department said that US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln and Indian Foreign Minister Subramanum Jaisankar made a phone call on the same day, and the two ministers discussed ways to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific region, and hoped that regional cooperation such as’Quad’ would expand. He said he expected it. Quad is an informal consultative body between four countries on the Indo-Pacific coast led by the United States to besiege China, with India, Australia and Japan participating.
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