Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton has repeatedly blamed China for ‘lying' about the novel coronavirus outbreak, and has cast doubt on the country's economic recovery and statistics on the pandemic.
Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton slammed the World Health Organization (WHO) in a tweet, expressing support for the resignation of the agency's Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The former Trump appointee claimed that WHO is “an accomplice” to the alleged concealment of information from China regarding the deadly pandemic.
Both US Senator Ted Cruz and his fellow Republican Senator Marco Rubio, whom Bolton mentioned in his tweet, have expressed skepticism regarding the current WHO leadership. Cruz previously claimed that “a reevaluation of WHO leadership is urgently called for”, after the GOP lawmaker alleged that the world health agency “lost its credibility by consistently bending to the Chinese Communist Party”. Cruz's claims were echoed by Rubio.
In a series of tweets, Bolton accused China of “using a pandemic as cover to advance military objectives”, “concealment of data” and “atrocious behaviour on coronavirus”. He suggested creating a “black book of China and coronavirus”, casting doubts on China's economic recovery after the peak of COVID-19 in the country passed and claiming that China is using COVID-19 in “waging propaganda war to damage the US global leadership”.
