Outraging Beijing, Pompeo pushes US hard line over coronavirus
President Donald Trump and his top aide Mike Pompeo blame China for its role in the Covid-19 pandemic. – EPA pic, May 5, 2020.
BRANDED “insane” by Chinese state media but hailed by US conservatives, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the lead in pressing a hard line against Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic. Pompeo has been at the forefront of bringing into the mainstream a theory that the illness that has killed nearly 250,000 worldwide slipped out of a virology laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged last year.
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