China Rejects U.S. Intelligence Claim It Hid Virus Numbers
- Beijing says response to outbreak was open, transparent
- U.S. intelligence community concluded China played down threat
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China rejected the American intelligence community’s conclusion that Beijing concealed the extent of the coronavirus epidemic, and accused the U.S. of seeking to shift the blame for its own handling of the outbreak.