Online press briefing using Zoom, by Chinese Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Chen Xu, in which the stated that politicalisation of the crisis was 'absurd and ridiculous', while refusing to say if and when international experts from the WHO would be allowed to join investigations into the origins of the coronavirus in China. He also stated that it was not china's purpose to "deliberately seek global influence by providing more funding" to the WHO. He also played a video cartoon mocking the US reaction to the pandemic.