According to a report recently released by three Chinese think tanks, the United States is a "failed country", "a country where the virus is spreading" and "a suspected source of the outbreak". And this is a completely different picture from the one painted by corrupt American media, according to the American Inside website on Tuesday.

The website cited a report titled "USA Comes First ?! The Truth About US Fighting COVID-19." It was released on Monday and contains material from the Chongyang Institute of Financial Research at the People's University of China, the Taihe Institute and the Intellisia Institute.

Chinese reports have revealed facts about the US government's response to COVID-19 and denied Bloomberg's latest global anti-epidemic rankings, which ranked the United States as the "# 1 worldwide" coronavirus resistance index in June.

The US rating as the "first country in the world" in responding to a pandemic "ignores the basic fact that the US has the highest number of cases and deaths from a pandemic in the world," the authors of the report said at a press conference.

The Chinese report cites facts and data published by several US media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN, in their analysis of the country's response to the pandemic.

Aside from deepening inequalities in wealth, systemic racism, and failures in gun control, the United States has effectively failed in its response to the pandemic in many ways. In addition, the “virus tracing terrorism” that has emerged in the country should be investigated, as it is an attempt to manipulate “global public opinion,” the authors said.

The report also mentioned a suspicious military biological laboratory at Fort Detrick in the US state of Maryland, which was closed in August 2019 for security reasons.

A worldwide call to study the relationship between the origins of the coronavirus and the American Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick has gained momentum. Recently in the Philippines, an online petition to investigate the biolaboratory at Fort Detrick collected nearly 500 signatures.

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