Wed 10 November 2021:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden intends to discuss the origins of the novel coronavirus outbreak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during their next virtual conference.
“That is going to be a part of it,” Blinken said at the DealBook Online Summit in response to a question whether the US president was planning to discuss the origins of the novel coronavirus with Xi.
Blinken noted that some people in China mistakenly think the US investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus is a tool to hammer Beijing.
“But it is not at all the point. This is not about pointing the finger and putting blame.
It is about understanding what happened so that we are in a better place to prevent it from happening again,” he said.
Blinken noted that the two presidents had a couple of extended conversations on all topics in the past since Biden assumed office in January.
“Multiple hours on the phone, but now we have an opportunity for them to get together at least face-to-face virtually, and hopefully at some point in person,” he said.
In August, US intelligence supplied Biden with a report on the novel coronavirus’s origins, but it was unable to determine whether the virus was transferred naturally from an animal to a human or developed in a Chinese laboratory.
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