Latest Fact-Checks In China

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 30, 2020 a Facebook post
“Kamala’s husband, a lawyer, represents the Communist Chinese Party in America!! Think about that!!”
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November 2, 2020
Scott Perry
Scott Perry
stated on October 17, 2020 an interview
The coronavirus "was constructed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
False
October 26, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on May 6, 2020 an interview
$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."
False
May 14, 2020
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on May 11, 2020 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.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 13, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2020 a Fox News virtual town hall
Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 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!”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post
Nigerians are “burning Chinese stores.”
False
April 22, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 2, 2020 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.”
False
April 7, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 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.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.
False
March 16, 2020
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 a YouTube post
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
False
March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 27, 2020 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.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 3, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 26, 2019 an image on Facebook
"China produces 90% of the world’s carbon emissions pollution."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 2, 2020
John Delaney
John Delaney
stated on August 27, 2019 an interview
The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China. 
False
By John Kruzel • September 6, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2019 an interview
U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."
False
By Eric Litke • August 2, 2019
Don Blankenship
Don Blankenship
stated on May 1, 2018 a debate
"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2018
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on July 9, 2017 an interview
"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.  
False
July 13, 2017
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on March 17, 2016 campaign ad, "Beltway Rob"
"It was (Rob Portman’s) job to stop China’s illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing."  
False
By Nadia Pflaum • April 1, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 5, 2012 a news conference.
Says Virginia economic development officials "decided they didn’t want to bid on" his company's electric automobile plant.
False
By Nancy Madsen • January 24, 2013
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
stated on October 15, 2012 a Web video
Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2012
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