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China is working to undo global norms in its favor, says U.S. intelligence community
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Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that China is working to undo global norms in its favor. Pool Photo by Saul Loeb/UPI | License Photo
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, asked intelligence officials questions about the origins of the coronavirus during a hearing about worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Pool Photo by Saul Loeb/UPI | License Photo
FBI Director Christopher Wray said his office opens a new case into China every 10 hours during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Pool Photo by Graeme Jennings/UPI | License Photo
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The intelligence community is investigating whether COVID-19 originated through an accidental escape from a Wuhan lab or through a natural emergence, spy agency leaders confirmed, as they warned more broadly about the Chinese Communist Party’s influence efforts inside the United States.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, asked Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about COVID-19’s origins during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the worldwide threats assessment report, arguing, “We can t conclude definitively that the virus that causes COVID-19 emerged naturally until there’s been a transmission chain that’s been identified, how the virus evolved and transmitted between species, and to date, no such path of zoonotic transmission has been definitively identified.” He asked if that was accurate, and the Biden spy chief confirmed the Wuhan lab was one of two main hypotheses.
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