For Donald Trump, Covid-19 is the "Chinese Virus". Is China to blame for the global outbreak? This allegation is at least stated in a secret US report.
- The corona virus * spreads worldwide. It probably originated in China.
- A report by the US intelligence service has raised serious allegations against the Chinese government.
- Our guide through reporting: Latest case numbers, symptoms and possible protective measures *.
Beijing / Washington - While the US government has its hands full * and the United States is suffering badly from the corona pandemic, the country is apparently researching the origin of the disease in the Far East. A U.S. intelligence report has surfaced. It raises doubts about the number of cases and deaths reported by the Chinese government .
China has hidden the extent of the coronavirus outbreak , the New York news portal Bloomberg summarizes the report. Three officials, whose names should not be mentioned, released the actually secret information , it is said.
Coronavirus: China Intentionally Reporting Incorrectly? Serious allegation by the US intelligence service
The Chinese government's reports are deliberately incomplete, they accuse the Middle Kingdom. Two of the US officials even speak of falsified numbers .
The White House has already received the documents, it is said. But that directly contradicts US President Donald Trump . The reports from China appeared to him to be beautiful anyway , but he had not received a report from his secret service, the former businessman * says.
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"The truth is that China could have been better off if China had been more communicative," complains Vice President Mike Pence on CNN , maybe even a month earlier, knew the outbreak was actually in China . "
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Republican Senator Ben Sasse is made even clearer when asked about the report. "The claim that there are more corona deaths in the USA than in China is wrong, " he says, "without commenting on secret information, one thing is painfully obvious: the Chinese Communist Party has lied , lies and continues to be told about it Corona virus lie to protect the regime. "
While Donald Trump promises that the US-China trade pact will not suffer and Beijing will spend $ 250 billion on American products, the serious allegations do not go unmentioned, of course.
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Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state newspaper The Global Times , said the conclusions that the US intelligence agency was simply trying to divert attention from the skyrocketing death toll in the United States . It was impossible to falsify data about an incident that attracted so much attention. The government immediately restricted the death toll in Hubei province by bringing doctors and medical supplies to the region.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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