China has officially claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in the United States, escalating tensions just days after Washington imposed a 125% tariff on Chinese goods. The assertion comes in a newly released document from the Chinese government,

China restated its case that Covid-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its pandemic response released on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump’s administration blamed a lab leak in China.

The Chinese accusations come after the White House revamped its COVID-19 information earlier this month to push out the assertion that COVID-19 leaked out of a lab in the Wuhan Institute of