Secretary of State Pompeo: World Will Hold China Responsible for What Has Happened | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that the other member nations of the G7 fully understood that China was launching a categorically false propaganda campaign claiming that the U.S. Military was responsible for bringing the coronavirus to China.

    "We've wanted to work with the Chinese Communist Party throughout this crisis - this crisis that began in Wuhan, China," Pompeo said. "We tried - you'll remember - from the opening days to get our scientists, our experts on the ground there so that we could begin to assist in the global response to what began there in China, but we weren't able to do that. The Chinese Communist Party wouldn't permit that to happen."

    "You'll recall, too, at the beginning of this, when it was clear that this was an issue, China knew about it, they were the first country to know about the risk to the world from this virus, and they repeatedly delayed sharing that information with the globe," Pompeo continued, later adding, "There was a lot of discussion today amongst the G7 about the intentional disinformation campaign that China has been and continues to be engaged in. You see it. You see it in the social media. You see it in remarks from senior people inside the Chinese Communist Party talking about whether this was a U.S. - U.S. brought to China. I mean, this is crazy talk. And every member of the G7 today saw that - this disinformation campaign. China now making small sales of product around the world and claiming that they are now the white hat in what has taken place here."

    A reporter later asked Pompeo about members of Congress who have started talking about launching an international investigation into China over what happened.

    "With respect to the first, I'll leave to Congress. I'm not doing that anymore," Pompeo said. "I'll leave to Congress to decide how they want to proceed. But as I said earlier, today is not the day for recriminations and accountability. We need to make clear that the information that is available to everyone in the world is available. That means full transparency by everyone, including by the Chinese Communist Party. This is a continuing challenge. We still need good information from the Chinese Communist Party about what has taken place there and the level of the virus that continues inside of that country. We need accurate, transparent information just like we're demanding from every country around the world."

    "But there will be a right time," Pompeo added. "After we've managed to address this crisis, after we've managed to get these economies back on their feet, there'll be a time for the world to evaluate responsibility for what took place."