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.

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,

CHENNAI: In a newly released white paper on its COVID-19 pandemic response, China renewed its assertion that the virus may have originated in the United States, pushing back against recent claims from the US government that the virus emerged from a lab in China.