Like many of his peers across the continent, he’s turning to Twitter to relay anti-US propaganda produced by Chinese state media. On 10 August, Ambassador Chen picked up on the “#FortDetrick” meme that Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian sparked last month, when he called on the WHO to investigate the Chinese-led allegation that the US military’s biomedical facility in Maryland, not Wuhan, is the true origin of Covid-19.
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