He said that it failed to cooperate and be as transparent as possible in the early days of the outbreak.
Blinken said that there needs to be a more thorough investigation into where the coronavirus originated and how it spread so rapidly.
And one result of that failure is that the vaccine, the virus, excuse me, got out of hand faster and with I think much more egregious results than it might otherwise”.Blinken said that Beijing’s attitude helped the coronavirus spread more quickly.
He didn’t answer whether he believes China knows more than it is saying about how the virus originated but did state that the pandemic should be the jumping-off point to build a stronger global health security system to try to prevent, or at least mitigate future pandemics.
We need to do that precisely so we fully understand what happened, in order to have the best shot possible preventing it from happening again”.The words of Blinken marked a more diplomatic turn from his predecessor.
But it still signaled that President Joe Biden’s administration is skeptical of China’s official narrative about how the pandemic started.