Editor's note: Haider Rifaat is a features writer for OK! Pakistan, an international edition of OK! Magazine. He is also a writer for Arabian Moda and South China Morning Post and serves as the creator and host of Pakistan's first web talk show – The Haider Rifaat Show. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.

For more than a year, China withstood unjust criticism for letting COVID-19 loose into the world. This false, politically-motivated stance stemmed primarily from the former Trump administration last year. However, China remained resilient as ever and overcame its epidemic in due course, but it was the United States that fell into a rabbit hole, topping the list of most coronavirus infections.

Former President Donald Trump continued his spat with China despite soaring infection rates. He labeled the virus as "Kung flu" and "China" and incentivized his base to carry out record-breaking anti-Asian hate crimes in the country.

Despite Joe Biden stepping in as the POTUS earlier this year, the country still experienced hurdles pulling through a nationwide health crisis. The White House is bound to lag behind its unrealistic goal of fully vaccinating 160 million Americans and 70 percent of U.S. adults with one jab.

The White House even made plans ahead of time to host an independence-from-the-virus party, but the U.S. is far from curtailing the pandemic considering that 20 percent of the incoming cases in America are of the novel delta variant that could soon take over the country. Additionally, more than 603,000 Americans have already succumbed to the virus.

In contrast, however, China made staggering efforts to immunize at least a billion citizens with COVID-19 vaccine shots. There are plans to fully inoculate 40 percent of the total Chinese population by the end of this month. Despite optimism in China, the COVID-19 blame game continues under the U.S. administration, and it appears as though Biden is doing very little to make amends with China. He is toeing Trump's line instead.

The White House is making relentless efforts to dig deep into the origins of the COVID-19 virus, and China is seemingly a primary target in a major politically-motivated move. By the end of May, U.S. President Biden ordered an official probe into the origins of the coronavirus possibly linked to the Chinese lab accident. Earlier in March, he urged his team to determine if the virus emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.

At this point, it is evident that all Biden wants to do is clash with China. Despite no evidence of COVID-19's link with the Chinese lab, the U.S. government is trying to fuel a hypothetical conspiracy theory.

The United States' obsession with investigating China on the matter is driven by partisanship. The country should instead focus on curtailing its epidemic rather than meddling in the affairs of its rival country.

The lack of belief in science – partly attributable to why COVID-19 got out of control in the United States – party politics and growing racism against blacks and Asians are evidence of where the U.S. currently stands on an array of unresolved issues.

A country like the U.S. should not automatically assume that China could be the only state responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak. That assessment not only comes across as intellectually dishonest but makes the U.S. government look bad. Perhaps the Biden administration should conduct an in-house investigation on how the virus spread in the United States so abruptly.

Statistics indicate that America consistently reported the highest rates of COVID-19 infections since last year. The cases only began to dwindle in recent months.

It is convenient for the U.S. government to hold China accountable for a pandemic without realizing its own failures. Despite the Biden-Harris administration enacting a series of measures to control the spread of COVID-19 through vaccinations, transparency and belief in science, the COVID-19 situation is still weary.

The government's failure to incentivize unvaccinated Americans to get the vaccine jab is a major roadblock going forward. Just recently, at least 150 employees resigned or got fired from the Houston Hospital system for opting out of vaccination, which violates the right to choose.

Furthermore, a new study by the National Institutes of Health reported that the United States had six times as many cases earlier on in the pandemic. More than 20 million average cases of the virus emerged last summer as opposed to three million reported by public health officials. The gross discrepancy in numbers and neglect on the U.S. government's part only made the pandemic worse.

It is accurate for China to claim that politicizing COVID-19 origins would hamper investigations. It is high time that politics is set aside, and a country like China is not viewed as the stereotyped culprit of the pandemic.

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