China says Hawley is participating in “political manipulation.”
According to a Fox News report, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials sent a three-page letter to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s office accusing him of “undermining international solidarity” in the fight against COVID.
“I am reaching out to express our grave concern regarding the ‘Covid-19 Origin Act of 2023’ (S.619), which falsely claimed that the Covid-19 coronavirus originated from Wuhan Institute of Virology, accuses China of blocking international investigations, refusing to share information and lacking transparency etc. and required the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID–19. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this,” the letter said.
“[T]he move by the US congress just shows that the US is going further and further down the wrong path of political manipulation. The so-called traceability report by the US intelligence agency is an attempt to ‘presume guilt’ on China. It is an attempt to shift the blame from its own failure to fight the epidemic to China,” the Chinese embassy official wrote.
The letter was written addressed to Hawley’s chief of staff.
From Fox News:
Hawley’s COVID Origin Act unanimously passed the Senate last week. He and Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., introduced the bill in late February on the heels of an explosive Department of Energy report that lent credibility to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a lab leak in China. FBI Director Chris Wray shared a similar assessment days later.
The Missouri Republican suggested to Fox News Digital on Thursday that he took China’s angry letter as a sign of encouragement.
“When China is this upset about a proposal you know you’re on the right track,” Hawley told Fox News Digital. “The American people deserve to know the truth about the origins of COVID and China must be held accountable.”
More over at Fox News:
The Chinese government wrote to me and demanded I withdraw my Covid origins bill. Hahaha. Not a chance https://t.co/NpO8Lr1RyA
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 9, 2023
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