Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian speaks during a media briefing in Beijing, Thursday, March 10, 2022. AP
The U.S. has refused Russia's conspiracy theory, and the United Nations has said it has received no information that would back up the allegations. But that hasn't prevented the claims from proliferating.
The partnership between the two authoritarian countries appears aimed at muddying the waters of the rationale for Russia's invasion, part of what American officials have called an "information war.''
China's Foreign Ministry has helped fuel the fire this week, repeating the Russian claim several times and calling for an investigation into "the secret of the U.S. labs in Ukraine.''
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