Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate. My guest is Ajit Singh. He is a lawyer and journalist

who writes about China extensively, including for the gray zone.com. Ajit Singh, welcome to pushback.

Thank you for having me. So tensions now are high between the U.S. and China and a lot of allegations being hurled

in China's direction, including accusing China of covering up the outbreak of the coronavirus,

of misleading the WHO, the virus itself possibly being started, not via animal-to-human

transmission, but in fact, inside a Chinese lab.

Brett Baers reporting tonight, if it bears out, shows that the Chinese Communist Party

is responsible for every single death,

every job lost, every retirement nest egg lost from this coronavirus. And Xi Jinping and his

Chinese communist apparatchiks must be made to pay the price. That was an allegation spread

across the political spectrum, including by President Trump.

We're looking at it.

A lot of people are looking at it.

It seems to make sense.

They talk about a certain kind of bat, but that bat wasn't in that area.

So a lot of strange things are happening, but there is a lot of investigation going on,

and we're going to find out.

Chinese agents spreading disinformation, a lot of this stuff going on.

But before we get into the specific allegations, I'm curious,

your overall thoughts right now on the climate of hostility and antagonism towards China

that we're seeing right now.

Yeah, I think there's been a noticeable escalation in anti-China hostility from the US government,

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