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Pompeo condemns China’s ‘efforts to shift’ coronavirus blame on US in call with communist party official


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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back Monday against Chinese attempts to blame the United States for the coronavirus outbreak during a phone call with a communist party official in China, the State Department said.


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Pompeo made the comments to People’s Republic of China Politburo member Yang Jiechi, with the State Department saying the secretary condemned the spreading of "disinformation and outlandish rumors."

"Secretary Pompeo conveyed strong U.S. objections to PRC efforts to shift blame for COVID-19 to the United States," State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a Monday statement. "The secretary stressed that this is not the time to spread disinformation and outlandish rumors, but rather a time for all nations to come together to fight this common threat."

The phone call came after Lijian Zhao, the spokesperson and deputy director-general for the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Information Department, suggested in a Thursday tweet that the U.S. Army could have brought COVID-19 to Wuhan, China -- without presenting any evidence to support this theory.

The World Health Organization has said the infection was first discovered in Wuhan.

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