A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has told reporters the idea would "disrupt international cooperation in fighting the pandemic" and goes against the world's shared aspirations.
He has urged Australia's Federal Government to put aside "ideological bias and political games", and to focus on the welfare of the Australian people and global public health security.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week spoke with the leaders of the United States, Germany and France, seeking to build an international coalition to give the World Health Organisation (WHO) — or another body — powers equivalent to those of a weapons inspector to avoid another catastrophic pandemic.
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