Trump defends use of the term 'China virus' - CNN

"I didn't appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them. Our military did not give it to anybody," Trump said during a White House press briefing.

"China was putting out information, which was false, that our military gave this to them. That was false. And rather than having an argument, I said I had to call it where it came from. It did come from China. So, I think it's a very accurate term," he said.

The President also pushed back at suggestions that using the term creates a stigma.

"I don't think so. I think saying that our military gave it to them creates a stigma," Trump said.

CNN previously reported that a prominent Chinese official has promoted a conspiracy theory that the US military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China -- and it did not originate in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Parts of Chinese social media, and even the country's government, appear to have launched a concerted campaign to question the origin of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 170,000 people globally as of Tuesday midday, according to CNN's case tracker.

The first reported cases of the virus were in Wuhan, and scenes from the city in lockdown shocked the world. The lockdown gave an early indication for how seriously global authorities would need to combat the fast-spreading virus.

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