China Calls U.S. Covid Lab Claims ‘Lies,’ ‘Conspiracy Theories’

China accused the U.S. of spreading “lies” and “conspiracy theories” after the Trump administration said it had new information suggesting the coronavirus might have emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

A U.S. State Department “fact sheet” on the virus origins released Friday was “full of fallacies,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing Monday in Beijing. She dismissed the claims as the “last madness” of outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

“The so-called fact sheet is another lie sheet produced by the U.S. side,” Hua said. “This fully demonstrates that some U.S. politicians are ...