What reasonable nation would not wish to know where, how and why COVID-19 began its world domination?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposal is that there needs to be an independent investigation into those sixty-four-thousand-dollar questions to attempt to guarantee it doesn’t happen once again.
That basic message has actually been caught in a nationalistic debate in between the United States and China, both of whose motives might not be entirely without self-interest.
The Chinese response to require an examination has actually been a surprisingly visceral attack on what it referred to as a political witch-hunt orchestrated by the United States.
That undiplomatic reaction was intensified by hardly camouflaged risks to harm Australia’s economy by boycotting Australian exports to China from red wine to beef to trainees.
But that’s simply the half of it.
President Trump, with the strong assistance of his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is encouraging us all to believe the US has strong evidence the infection originated from a virology lab in Wuhan
The implication is that the Chinese are at fault, to blame for more than 260,000 deaths from coronavirus and castigated for concealing the origins of the virus.
For President Trump, exp