China restated its case that COVID-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its pandemic response released on Wednesday after President Donald Trump’s administration blamed a lab leak in China.
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The report from China is not claiming that it originated in a laboratory in the USA. It is claiming that patient zero may have been in America not in China and that the US may have deliberately hid information about the timeline of the natural emergence of the disease in order to bolster the narrative that it originated (naturally or otherwise) in China.