White House won’t commit to punishing China if Biden’s new lab leak inquiry finds wrongdoing

Published May 26, 2021 12:00am ET



White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped questions on what penalties China might face if President Joe Biden’s newly announced investigation into the origin of the coronavirus finds wrongdoing in that country.

Just before Wednesday’s White House briefing began, Biden announced that he had tasked the U.S. intelligence community with conducting a 90-day review to determine “whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.”

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