{"id":32525,"date":"2021-05-27T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/china-rejects-bidens-call-to-examine-covid-origin-theories"},"modified":"2021-05-27T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:14:42","slug":"china-rejects-bidens-call-to-examine-covid-origin-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32525","title":{"rendered":"China rejects Biden\u2019s call to examine Covid origin theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman says US president\u2019s order to intelligence agencies is attempt to stigmatise Chinese government <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has hit out against Joe Biden\u2019s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covid-19 was first transmitted to humans, questioning Washington\u2019s motives and railing against the \u201cnotorious track record\u201d of US intelligence in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/26\/joe-biden-us-intelligence-community-covid-19-origins-china\">said on Wednesday<\/a> he had ordered the US intelligence community to intensify its efforts to study the origins of coronavirus, including the possibility it emerged from a laboratory accident rather than from human contact with an infected animal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/china-rejects-bidens-call-to-examine-covid-origin-theories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman says US president\u2019s order to intelligence agencies is attempt to stigmatise Chinese government Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has hit out against Joe Biden\u2019s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1854,50,885,1066,914,939,299,45,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-cia","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-joe-biden","category-science","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions\/32526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}