美国动用情报机构进行新冠病毒溯源，将病毒溯源这一科学问题政治化，当然找不到抹黑中国的任何证据。
There’s nothing Washington can use to tarnish China in its politicized and intelligence community-led report on origin tracing of COVID-19.
A mobile COVID-19 testing site is seen in New York, the United States, on Aug. 31, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
然而，美国政客依然信口雌黄、继续搞有罪推定，污蔑中国“阻挠国际调查、拒绝共享信息”。
However, U.S. politicians are still making arbitrary and irresponsible remarks to seek “presumption of guilt” against China, wrongly claiming that China “continues to hinder the global investigation, resist sharing information and blame other countries.”
如同当年散布伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器的谎言一样，这份报告是美国误导和欺骗国际社会的又一例证。
Just like how Washington fabricated Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction years ago, the so-called origin tracing report is another example of the U.S. deceiving and misleading the international society.
这再次让世人看清，美国政客的目的就是要编造谎言、制造借口向中国泼脏水，就是要打着病毒溯源的幌子，掩盖自身抗疫不力的事实，推卸抗疫失败的责任。
It once again proved that what these U.S. politicians truly want is to discredit China with the lies they have fabricated, and cover up their failure in pandemic control and pass the buck to China under the disguise of origin tracing.
People wander near the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 22, 2021. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
新冠肺炎疫情发生以来，美国一些政客不思如何控制疫情、拯救生命，却把大量时间和精力用在政治操弄、甩锅推责上。在这场全球大流行的世纪疫情面前，美国政客先是对疫情轻描淡写，称新冠肺炎为“大号流感”，错过了最佳防控时机；他们一直坚持资本至上，不愿出台有效社交限制措施，提前“解封”加速病毒传播；
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, some U.S. politicians have spent huge time on political manipulation and blame game, rather than pandemic control and saving lives. They called the once-in-a-century pandemic a “big flu” and missed the window period, refused to launch restrictions on social activities, and even ended lockdowns in advance to cater to capital.
他们采取封锁信息等多种手段欺骗本国人民，专家只要讲出真话，就会被“冷藏”乃至“封杀”；他们奉行“美国优先”“抗疫利己主义”，任性“断供”“退群”“囤货”……
Besides, they deceived U.S. citizens with multiple approaches, such as information blockage, blocking and even blacklisting the experts who told the truth. They followed the “America first” principle and preached egoism in COVID-19 response, and arbitrarily defunded the WHO, withdrew from multiple organizations and hoarded anti-pandemic materials.
大搞疫情政治化，放弃了科学防控和团结合作两大抗疫的有力武器，对快速变异传播的病毒几乎束手无策、处处被动。
Politicizing the pandemic, the U.S. has laid down the powerful weapons of science and solidarity, and thus lost its bearings in the pandemic.
根据美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学统计数据，美新冠肺炎确诊病例已超过3900万、死亡病例超过63万，双双排名世界第一。
According to statistics from the Johns Hopkins University, the US has recorded over 39 million COVID-19 infections and 630,000 deaths. Both of the figures rank the first in the world.
A woman looks at a memorial installation for those who died of COVID-19 outside Green-Wood Cemetery in New York, the United States, June 14, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
美国政客操弄病毒溯源，一大动机就是掩盖本国抗疫失败的事实。一年多来，美国疫情深陷“恶化—缓解—反弹”的怪圈。近期，美国疫苗接种几近停滞，每日新增确诊病例数、死亡病例数、住院病例数等疫情核心指标再次严重反弹。
To cover up their failure in pandemic control is what motivated the U.S. politicians to manipulate origin tracing. Over the past year, the U.S. has trapped in a weird cycle of “deterioration-alleviation-resurgence” regarding pandemic control. Recently, the vaccination process has become stagnant in the country, and there is also a serious resurgence in the daily numbers of new infections, deaths and hospitalizations.
美国公共卫生领域的权威专家悲哀地承认：美国在控制德尔塔变异毒株蔓延这件事上“失败了”，“正在付出可怕的代价”。
An authoritative expert in public health from the U.S. admitted that the U.S. is failing to contain the Delta variant surge and is paying the “terrible price.”
美国抗疫失败的教训十分深刻，但美国政客不但不汲取教训，反而费尽心机地指责、栽赃他国。
The U.S. failure in pandemic control is a serious lesson. However, U.S. politicians are not learning from it. On the contrary, they are doing everything to blame and frame up other countries.
人们不禁要问，是美国人民的生命重要，还是美国政客的政治私利重要？是世界人民的生命健康重要，还是美国的地缘政治考量重要？美国将抗疫和溯源政治化究竟要持续到何时？
Which one is more important, the lives of Americans or the private interests of U.S. politicians, the lives of the people around the world or the geopolitical strategies of the U.S.? When will Washington stop labeling the virus and politicizing the origin tracing?
A man registers at a mobile COVID-19 testing site in New York, the United States, on Aug. 31, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
美国政治操弄病毒溯源，无视科学和事实，以为自己挥舞美式霸权大棒，就可以掩盖真相、颠倒黑白。但现实是，国际社会反对政治溯源的声音越来越强。即使是在美国国内，美国政客甩锅推责的丑陋表演也日益为民众所不齿。
Manipulating origin tracing and ignoring science and facts, the U.S. believes it can cover up the truth by waving the big stick of hegemony. However, the opposing voices from the international society are only getting stronger. Even the U.S. public despises the ugly performance of U.S. politicians.
今年6月，一名美国国务院前官员以公开信形式，揭露美方炮制“武汉实验室泄漏论”的过程。为了污蔑武汉病毒研究所，美国政客竟能将该所改造中央空调的花费夸大1000倍，从而编造该所项目经费过高、存在“异常”的谎言。事实一再证明，用谎言证明谎言，只会自毁形象、贻笑大方。
In June this year, a former official of the U.S. Department of State revealed how Washington fabricated the “lab leak theory” in an open letter. The former official said, to tarnish the Wuhan Institute of Virology, U.S. politicians even exaggerated the institute’s budget for central air-conditioning by 1,000 times, so as to prove there’s something “unusual” about it. However, they only proved that it’s ridiculous to verify a lie with a lie.
甩锅推责纯粹是自欺欺人，抹黑别人注定是竹篮打水一场空。美国拥有全球最先进的医疗技术，却沦为感染病例和死亡人数最多的国家，成为国际抗疫合作的最大破坏因素和科学溯源的最大障碍。
Blame games are nothing different from ostrich mentality, and to discredit others is just like a wild goose chase. The U.S., owning the world’s most advanced medical technologies, has become a country with the highest numbers of infections and deaths, and the largest barrier hindering international cooperation on pandemic control and science-based origin tracing.
A pedestrian wearing a face mask passes in front of Pfizer's World Headquarters in New York, United States, on Aug. 23, 2021. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
病毒溯源需要公平公正、需要公开透明，美国政客应当吸取教训，尊重科学，尊重事实，停止打着病毒溯源幌子玩弄甩锅推责的把戏，早日回到合作抗疫、科学溯源的正确轨道上来。
Origin tracing calls for equity, openness and transparency. U.S. politicians shall learn from their lessons, respect science and facts, and stop playing the blame game in the name of origin tracing. They had better return to the right track of cooperation and science-based origin tracing as early as possible.
来源：PeopleDaily
