China Lashes Out at New House Committee on Countering Beijing, Dismissing Lab Leak Theory

Beijing’s Foreign Ministry decries what it calls a ‘zero-sum Cold War mentality.’

AP/Liu Zheng
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Mao Ning, at Beijing on March 1, 2023. AP/Liu Zheng

BEIJING — Communist China lashed out Wednesday at a new House committee dedicated to countering Beijing, demanding its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality,” while dismissing American suggestions that the Covid pandemic may have been triggered by a Chinese laboratory leak.

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