Latest Fact-checks in China Chris Murphy stated on May 11, 2020 in an MSNBC interview: Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.” Donald Trump stated on May 3, 2020 in a Fox News virtual town hall: Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.” Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!” Viral image stated on April 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.” Viral image stated on April 19, 2020 in a Facebook post: Nigerians are “burning Chinese stores.” Facebook posts stated on April 16, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.” Viral image stated on April 2, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.” Charlie Kirk stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet: “The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.” Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.” Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post: “On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.” Viral image stated on March 25, 2020 in a Facebook post: “COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.” Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview: Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.” John Cornyn stated on March 18, 2020 in a press conference: “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.” Facebook posts stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019. YouTube videos stated on February 19, 2020 in a YouTube post: “The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.” Facebook posts stated on January 27, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In ‘Resident Evil’ the Umbrella Corporation releases a virus that infects the people of Raccoon City. A biological research lab with the exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation can be found in the city where the coronavirus outbreak originated.” X posts stated on February 29, 2020 in posts on Twitter and Facebook: Says Sen. Chuck Schumer deleted a Feb. 5 tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some forms of travel to and from China. Viral image stated on February 18, 2020 in a YouTube post: Says 20 million Chinese converted to Islam after it’s proven that the coronavirus doesn’t affect Muslims. Bloggers stated on February 6, 2020 in a social media post: “Chinese people eat human baby soup to improve health.” Facebook posts stated on January 24, 2020 in a website post: "CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China." Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says a coronavirus patent expired just as there is a "sudden outbreak" and, despite "media fear-mongering," there is already a vaccine available. Facebook posts stated on December 26, 2019 in an image on Facebook: "China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution." Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later." Viral image stated on September 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Ivanka Trump’s shoe line is made in China but is exempt from tariffs. Donald Trump stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.: China has "had now the worst year in 57 years." John Delaney stated on August 27, 2019 in an interview: The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China. Donald Trump stated on July 12, 2019 in an interview: U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China." Joe Biden stated on June 11, 2019 in a campaign speech: "In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration." Anthony Scaramucci stated on May 11, 2019 in an interview: China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo." Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally: "We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.
Chris Murphy stated on May 11, 2020 in an MSNBC interview: Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.” Donald Trump stated on May 3, 2020 in a Fox News virtual town hall: Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.” Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!” Viral image stated on April 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.” Viral image stated on April 19, 2020 in a Facebook post: Nigerians are “burning Chinese stores.” Facebook posts stated on April 16, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.” Viral image stated on April 2, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.” Charlie Kirk stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet: “The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.” Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.” Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post: “On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.” Viral image stated on March 25, 2020 in a Facebook post: “COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.” Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview: Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.” John Cornyn stated on March 18, 2020 in a press conference: “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.” Facebook posts stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019. YouTube videos stated on February 19, 2020 in a YouTube post: “The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.” Facebook posts stated on January 27, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In ‘Resident Evil’ the Umbrella Corporation releases a virus that infects the people of Raccoon City. A biological research lab with the exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation can be found in the city where the coronavirus outbreak originated.” X posts stated on February 29, 2020 in posts on Twitter and Facebook: Says Sen. Chuck Schumer deleted a Feb. 5 tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some forms of travel to and from China. Viral image stated on February 18, 2020 in a YouTube post: Says 20 million Chinese converted to Islam after it’s proven that the coronavirus doesn’t affect Muslims. Bloggers stated on February 6, 2020 in a social media post: “Chinese people eat human baby soup to improve health.” Facebook posts stated on January 24, 2020 in a website post: "CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China." Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says a coronavirus patent expired just as there is a "sudden outbreak" and, despite "media fear-mongering," there is already a vaccine available. Facebook posts stated on December 26, 2019 in an image on Facebook: "China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution." Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later." Viral image stated on September 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Ivanka Trump’s shoe line is made in China but is exempt from tariffs. Donald Trump stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.: China has "had now the worst year in 57 years." John Delaney stated on August 27, 2019 in an interview: The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China. Donald Trump stated on July 12, 2019 in an interview: U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China." Joe Biden stated on June 11, 2019 in a campaign speech: "In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration." Anthony Scaramucci stated on May 11, 2019 in an interview: China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo." Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally: "We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.
Chris Murphy stated on May 11, 2020 in an MSNBC interview: Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”
Donald Trump stated on May 3, 2020 in a Fox News virtual town hall: Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”
Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”
Viral image stated on April 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.”
Facebook posts stated on April 16, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.”
Viral image stated on April 2, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.”
Charlie Kirk stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet: “The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”
Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post: “On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”
Viral image stated on March 25, 2020 in a Facebook post: “COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.”
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview: Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
John Cornyn stated on March 18, 2020 in a press conference: “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”
Facebook posts stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
YouTube videos stated on February 19, 2020 in a YouTube post: “The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
Facebook posts stated on January 27, 2020 in a Facebook post: “In ‘Resident Evil’ the Umbrella Corporation releases a virus that infects the people of Raccoon City. A biological research lab with the exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation can be found in the city where the coronavirus outbreak originated.”
X posts stated on February 29, 2020 in posts on Twitter and Facebook: Says Sen. Chuck Schumer deleted a Feb. 5 tweet criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to ban some forms of travel to and from China.
Viral image stated on February 18, 2020 in a YouTube post: Says 20 million Chinese converted to Islam after it’s proven that the coronavirus doesn’t affect Muslims.
Bloggers stated on February 6, 2020 in a social media post: “Chinese people eat human baby soup to improve health.”
Facebook posts stated on January 24, 2020 in a website post: "CORONAVIRUS: Reports of 10,000 DEAD in Wuhan, China."
Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says a coronavirus patent expired just as there is a "sudden outbreak" and, despite "media fear-mongering," there is already a vaccine available.
Facebook posts stated on December 26, 2019 in an image on Facebook: "China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
Andrew Yang stated on December 20, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate: "They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later."
Viral image stated on September 12, 2019 in a Facebook post: Ivanka Trump’s shoe line is made in China but is exempt from tariffs.
Donald Trump stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.: China has "had now the worst year in 57 years."
John Delaney stated on August 27, 2019 in an interview: The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China.
Donald Trump stated on July 12, 2019 in an interview: U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."
Joe Biden stated on June 11, 2019 in a campaign speech: "In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration."
Anthony Scaramucci stated on May 11, 2019 in an interview: China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo."
Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally: "We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.
