The gloves are off. Zhao Lijian is a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. He’s now voicing in public, for the first time coming from a top official, the very plausible possibility that Covid-19 came from the US.
“It might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan” is a direct connection to the Military Games in October 2019, which had 300 US military participants.
I see this as a trial balloon; if it goes viral – literally and metaphorically – the Chinese may amplify the message. Beijing may always choose to wait – and weaponize this inside info further on down the road.
Chinese scientists now have pretty good Covid-19 intel and the consensus, as you have seen in multiple posts here, is that the Chinese mutation of the virus – only found in China – is the third in line, proving the virus did NOT originate in China.