Chinese Promote Rap Song Blaming US for Coronavirus

Chinese Communist Party officials and state media are circulating a Chinese rap video that claims the coronavirus pandemic originated in an American military lab in an effort to distract from mounting evidence that the virus emerged in a Wuhan lab leak. The Chinese paper of record China Daily, propaganda outlet Global Times, and foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian have all circulated the rap video in the past month along with articles and cartoons alleging that the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in a military lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Zhao and Global Times shared a Chinese music video that accuses U.S….