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Comment by Liu Pengyu

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Spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the United States
We firmly oppose the politicization and stigmatization of the source of the virus, and once again call on everyone to respect science and stay away from conspiracy theories.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified In source context, this quote is the Chinese embassy spokesperson's response to the CIA's lab-leak assessment, and the same article says China argued a laboratory leak was "extremely unlikely." So the quote is directly about the virus's origin and makes a determinable stance on the lab-vs-natural-origin claim substantially more likely. ([cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 59min ago
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AI Verified Against: the speaker says to "respect science" and "stay away from conspiracy theories," and in the article this is presented as China’s rebuttal to the CIA’s lab-leak assessment, implying he rejects a lab-related origin claim rather than supports it. ([cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 58min ago

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AI Verified The CBS article at the provided URL contains the quote verbatim and attributes it to "embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu" in a statement emailed to The Associated Press. AP’s own version repeats the same wording and attribution. The stored source URL is correct, and the Jan. 25, 2025 date is consistent with AP republication metadata, even though CBS later updated its page on Jan. 27, 2025. ([cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-covid-likely-originated-lab-low-confidence-assessment/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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