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EXCLUSIVE: COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. This may be the "costliest government coverup of all time," one of the sources said. The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population...

China’s state-sponsored news agency “Xinhua News” labeled the coronavirus global pandemic a “Trumpandemic”, according to the group’s recent tweet. It’s no surprise, however, since the Chinese Communist Party has been pushing propaganda to blame President Trump and his administration for the virus’s spread since the coronavirus outbreak reached U.S. shores. In their tweet, Xinhua tried to use a recent breaking story in the U.S. news cycle that exposed several U.S. Senators for engaging in insider trading after receiving private information about the potential devastation from coronavirus in January. That story, the Chinese news agency alleged, should call into question how...

Washington (AFP) - The United States and China on Friday took their growing clash over the coronavirus pandemic to social media, with Beijing telling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo he was "lying through (his) teeth." In an interview on Fox News, Pompeo said Beijing "wasted valuable days" after identifying the novel coronavirus by letting "hundreds of thousands" leave the epicenter of Wuhan to places including Italy, which has surpassed China as the country with the highest death toll. "The Chinese Communist Party didn't get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that," Pompeo said. Chinese...