'Biden changed his mind about Wuhan after China spy revelations'

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 18 - The request of the American President Joe Biden to carry out a new investigation on the origins of the coronavirus and, in particular, on the laboratory from Wuhan would be triggered by a series of secret information provided to the White House by a Chinese super spy. This was claimed by the British tabloid Daily Mail.

    According to the newspaper, which cites the Spytalk website, on 10 February Beijing's counter-intelligence chief Dong Jingwei left China with his daughter and, stopping over in Hong Kong, arrived in the United States. There he allegedly provided American officials with a series of tidbits about the lab, which some claim may have escaped the virus, which would lead President Biden to reconsider a statement strongly supported by his predecessor Donald Trump.

    If the story were confirmed, Dong, who was also deputy minister in 2018, would be China's biggest defector of history. The issue of defection of Dong sarebbestata raised by Chinese officials at the summit Sino-americanoin Alaska last March, according to reports in Spytalk Lianchao Dahan, former official of the Foreign Ministry cineseche defected after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.

   In a Tweeted two days ago, Han, citing an anonymous source, said that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Communist Party Foreign Affairs Chief Yang Jiechi asked the Americans to return Dong but State Secretary Antony Blinken refused. (HANDLE).