China's president has defended his country's handling of its own coronavirus crisis. As the place where the virus was first detected, there's been some criticism of is governnment's willingness to share information, but Xi Jinping says Beijing has been open and transparent.
He's also indicated he's willing to allow an independent evaluation of how the disease started as a local event, became an epidemic and then a global pandemic. As COVID-19 claims more than 315 thousand lives globally, with almost four million infections, it's become a political issue, especially for leaders who are looking for someone or something to blame for the high number of deaths in their own countries.
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