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

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."