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May 26, 2021 He directed U.S. national labs to assist with the investigation and the intelligence community to prepare a list of specific questions for China. SHOW TRANSCRIPT President Biden is putting pressure on U.S. intelligence officials, telling them to "redouble" their efforts to find out the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The president directed U.S. national laboratories to assist with the investigation and the intelligence community to prepare a list of specific questions for the Chinese government.  There's one theory that the virus emerged naturally, through human contact with a...

WASHINGTON, May 27 ― President Joe Biden yesterday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. Agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyse...

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and China’s Vice Premier Liu He had a “candid” first conversation as the two sides try to resolve some of their differences on trade. The trade chiefs spoke Thursday morning in Beijing, China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement, and “conducted candid, pragmatic and constructive exchanges in an attitude of equality and mutual respect.” In a separate statement, the USTR said “Ambassador Tai discussed the guiding principles of the Biden-Harris administration’s worker-centered trade policy and her ongoing review of the US-China trade re...

Beijing reacts angrily to calls for WHO to carry out second phase of investigation, while US intelligence split on virus’s likely origin On Thursday the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, said it was ‘extremely unlikely’ the virus had come from a laboratory in Wuhan. Photograph: Jason Lee/AFP/Getty Images Joe Biden’s decision to expand the US investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, with one intelligence agency leaning towards the theory that it escaped from a Wuhan laboratory, has opened a new divide in his administration’s a...

Biden says US intelligence community divided on COVID-19 origin