China has worked tirelessly to obfuscate the origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus and is enraged that the United States has asked the United Nations to accurately note the origin of the pandemic.

The Trump administration is pushing the U.N. Security Council to call attention to the Chinese origins of the coronavirus, four diplomats posted to the United Nations told NBC News, triggering a stalemate as the global body seeks to cobble together a response to the pandemic.

Talks among U.N. Security Council nations over a joint declaration or resolution on the coronavirus have stalled over U.S. insistence that it explicitly state that the virus originated in Wuhan, China, as well as exactly when it started there. China’s diplomats are enraged according to the diplomats, even as they seek to put their own language into the statement praising China’s efforts to contain the virus.

China’s communist leaders used Twitter, a platform from which their own citizens are banned, to accuse the U.S. military of creating the virus in Wuhan, despite what we know of them jailing their own doctors for trying to warn the public (and more).

China pivoted from that propaganda attack to declaring that noting the origin of the pandemic they created is “racist.” So many legacy media outlets followed suit that now it’s measurable via polling. (Center for Security Policy has an excellent timeline of China’s Wuhan Virus and propaganda.)

China can stop its feet all it wants to but we’re not going to be gaslit as to where this pandemic started — and yes, it is relevant to discuss this and discuss it now because if you ever hope to prevent this from happening again then perhaps we should talk about the conditions and governance in China that allowed not one but two viruses spread around the globe.