The Global Times published a commentary article on Thursday, saying that the U.S.'s recent statement on the investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is an attempt to "make origin tracing of COVID-19 a thing of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)."

By continuing to blame China, some U.S. politicians "placed their hope on the intelligence community, trying to answer a science question with political means," wrote the commentary.

"They'd rather believe the so-called intelligence report which is neither professional nor transparent, than trust authoritative and objective research results. How absurd it is!" the article observed.

Saying that it was not the first time for the U.S. intelligence community to "make a lie," the article noted of the CIA's accusation on Iraq of creating weapons of mass destruction in 2003 and the U.S.'s airstrikes on Syria.

The article pointed out that the "brainwashing" could make people buy the so-called "lab leak theory" and stigmatize China.

"The U.S., ordering its intelligence community to investigate into the origin of the virus out of political targets, will only hurt international cooperation on COVID-19 origin tracing, which is exactly a practice that needs to be investigated into," the article pointed out.