The full email, received exclusively through Fox News Digital, shows Xiang criticizing the committee’s efforts to hint at the origins of the coronavirus as primarily political.
“We call on the side of the U. S. “We urge the U. S. to respect science and facts, prevent China from holding the aforementioned hearings, prevent intelligence-based and politically motivated origin tracing, and help promote foreign solidarity against the pandemic and Global Cooperation in Science-based origin tracking,” the 2:15 a. m. email states. m. de Xiang.
CHINESE EMBASSY SENDS EMAIL TO REPUBLICAN HOUSE STAFF EXPRESSING “GRAVE CONCERN” OVER HEARING ON ORIGINS OF COVID-19
A security guard helps keep bloodhounds away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
In the email, Xiang appears to blame the U. S. for the virus. The U. S. government is being criticized for its alleged “failure” in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, which appears to drive a conspiracy theory amplified through Chinese government officials alleging that the coronavirus possibly originated in a U. S. military laboratory. UU. . .
“The hearing just shows that the U. S. is increasingly on the road. Simply blaming others or finding a scapegoat for your own mistakes and incompetences is the simplest thing to do, but it is not guilty for the afterlife or useful for the future. “,” he writes.
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He also said in the email that origination is a “complex clinical problem” that “must be done jointly through scientists,” arguing that the intelligence community’s studies are not credible.
“The intelligence community, which is highly political in nature, surely cannot produce anything objective or credible on such a favorable issue. We oppose ‘political tracking’ or ‘intelligence tracking’. We oppose designating China, especially Wuhan, as the origin of the virus before concrete evidence is presented and conclusions are drawn jointly through scientists around the world,” Xiang said.
“We oppose any political maneuvering like ‘verdict first, then trial,'” he added.
CHINA WRITES FURIOUS LETTER TO HAWLEY ON COVID ORIGINS PROJECT PROJECT: ‘POLITICAL MANIPULATION’
House Special Subcommittee Chairman on the Coronavirus Pandemic Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) (C) questions witnesses during a subcommittee hearing with rank-and-file member Raul Ruiz (D-CA)(L) at the Rayburn House construction workplace on Capitol Hill on March 8, 2023, in Washington, D. C. Witnesses and subcommittee members aired and debated their disagreements over the imaginable origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus and whether it came from nature or from a laboratory in China. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
While Xiang wrote that China “is willing to cooperate with other countries in origin tracing,” World Health Organization leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called out the Chinese government in March for failing to disclose the now-available genetic curtains from Wuhan that deserve to have been presented. when the virus started.
The Chinese embassy’s liaison to Congress also said it was “gravely concerned” about Tuesday’s hearing and “firmly opposed” to it.
A spokesperson for the selected subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic told Fox News Digital on Saturday that the Chinese embassy’s attempt to disrupt the subcommittee’s work is “absurd. “
CHINA SAYS IT “HOPES AND BELIEVES” GERMANY WILL SUPPORT ITS “PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION” WITH TAIWAN
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) speaks at a news conference with members of the House Intelligence Committee at the U. S. Capitol. Meet in the U. S. on August 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The April 18 hearing will feature testimony from former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and former U. S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Feith.
In March, Xiang sent a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley’s chief of staff, R-Mo. , saying the Missouri senator’s bill to declassify data related to the origins of COVID-19 is an act of “political manipulation. “
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“I am contacting you to express our grave fear about the ‘Covid-19 Origin Law of 2023’ (S. 619), which falsely claims that the Covid-19 coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, accuses China of blocking foreign research, refusing percentages of data and lack of transparency, etc. and directed the Director of National Intelligence to declassify data related to the origin of COVID-19. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns it,” the letter said.
Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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