
CHINA called on the United States to “stop poisoning international co-operation on virus tracing” yesterday, after released findings from a 90-day US probe proved a damp squib.
Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said origin-tracing was a complex scientific matter but the US had been “obsessed” with political manipulation.
The US report, which President Joe Biden ordered spooks to produce after citing doubts about the World Health Organisation (WHO’s) investigation into the coronavirus’s origins, says that intelligence agencies are divided.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers