Chinese state media step up attacks on ‘evil’ and ‘insane’ Mike Pompeo after he blames China for coronavirus spreading
- Official mouthpieces denounce US Secretary of State as a ‘liar’ after he claimed there was ‘enormous evidence’ virus had come from a lab in Wuhan
- Beijing has reacted with anger to the claims, as well as repeated accusations from Washington that it is to blame for the Covid-19 pandemic
Chinese state media outlets have continued their angry attacks on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo describing him as “evil” for blaming China for the Covid-19 outbreak.
Attacks on Pompeo began to heat up last week when state news outlet CCTV called him the “common enemy of mankind” after he blamed the Chinese Communist Party for mishandling the outbreak of Covid19 in an interview with Fox News.
Commentary in China’s state-controlled media mouthpieces ratcheted up the attacks on Pompeo following another interview with ABC News on Sunday where he said there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 came from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Beijing has been angered by the allegations made by Pompeo, saying the origin of the virus is for scientists to investigate, and highlighting scientific assessments that there was no proof to link the outbreak with the Wuhan lab.
Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, has said the virus was likely to have originated from animals, and described the possibility of accidental leak from the lab as a “circular argument”.