Blog: Let’s Not Blame China

Diego Guelar is the former Argentine ambassador to China, the United States, the European Union and Brazil. The article, titled Let’s Not Blame China, was first published in Spanish by Inter Press Service.

At the end of November 2019, on my last official trip to the interior of China as ambassador to the country, I visited the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. It was around this time that the mysterious viral mutation that gave rise to Covid-19 occurred.