The US military imported COVID into China

The Chinese government responded to the anti-China theories with a conspiracy theory of its own that tries to blame back onto the United States. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, tweeted “it’s possible that the US military brought the virus to Wuhan.” China accused that the US military personnel during their participation in the Military World Games held in Wuhan last October 2019  brought the virus to China. For China, as the Atlantic reported, this conspiracy theory, where China tried to rename COVID the “USA virus,”’ was a transparent “geopolitical ploy” . It was thought to be only useful for domestic propaganda as it was not widely believed internationally.