China 'open' to international effort to identify coronavirus source: FM Wang Yi

Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. (Reuters photo)

China is "open" to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus, China's foreign minister said on Sunday.

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But any investigation must be "free of political interference," Wang Yi said at a press conference, blasting what he called efforts by US politicians to "fabricate rumours" about the pathogen's origins and "stigmatise China."