id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-261971-rt6uo9pw Jaworsky, Bernadette Nadya The Politics of Blaming: the Narrative Battle between China and the US over COVID-19 2020-09-01 .txt text/plain 8257 623 60 16 Meanwhile, however, another MFA Spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, tweeted on the same day, "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." 17 On March 16, Trump again referred to the "Chinese Virus," 18 and during a White House press briefing on the 17th, he defended his use of the term: "I didn't appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them." 19 He also rejected the idea that such a term creates a stigma: "I don't think so. Pushing back, The People's Daily published an article entitled, "US COVID-19 statistics challenged by multiple research: lethal virus is far more widespread in the country than previously thought." 28 Meanwhile, in Washington, Trump claimed on April 23 that he has evidence that gives him "high level confidence" that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. ./cache/cord-261971-rt6uo9pw.txt ./txt/cord-261971-rt6uo9pw.txt