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Gordon Chang to Newsmax: Biden Didn't Mention COVID Origins to Xi on Purpose
(Newsmax/"Wake Up America")
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Tuesday, 16 November 2021 09:26 AM
President Joe Biden didn't bring up the topic about the origins of COVID-19 during his three-and-a-half hour conversation with China's President Xi Jinping because that would mean he'd have to do something about holding the rival country accountable, China expert Gordon Chang said on Newsmax Tuesday.
"Biden didn't want to discuss it during their two-hour phone call in February," Chang said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "I'm sure it didn't come up in their September call ... they say, well, we don't want to veer into conflict, but you know, conflicts are not preceded by an absence of communication. They're preceded by communication of the type we had last night for 3.5 hours."
According to a White House readout about the lengthy conversation between Biden and Xi, they discussed several topics, including trade, human rights, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, a free and open Indo-Pacific, health security, the climate crisis, and global energy supplies. The release, however, does not mention any conversation about COVID-19.
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