Twitter And Tesla CEO Elon Musk is targeted by Xi Jinping-led China’s state media after sharing an assessment that the The origins of the COVID-19 pandemic lie in a laboratory in Wuhan.

What happened: Eunice YoonHead of CNBC’s Beijing bureau, quoted a report by the Chinese newspaper Global Times on Twitter.

Yoon said the report asked Musk if he was “breaking the pot of China,” a reference to “biting the hand that feeds you.”

The CNBC reporter stressed that the Chinese media did not take Musk’s remarks as an attack on the company’s former director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci alone.

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Why it matters: The Global Times accused Musk not only of reposting the Fauci conspiracy theory, but also of “slandering” China.

It noted that Musk has converged with right-wing forces in the United States in recent years.

It was previously reported that the US Department of Energy said with “low confidence” that a lab leak was the most likely origin of COVID-19, which morphed into a major global pandemic in 2020.

Musk has received a number of taunts from Fauci, including once declaring his pronouns to be “his.” “Tracking/Fauci.”

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