Dearlove agrees with Trump's China policy and says an international explanation is needed for what happened.
“I think there's a lot about his China policy that's right, because we need an explanation from the Chinese as to what happened.”
Dearlove says scientific paper on virus origins is important and will shift debate on pandemic evolution.
“I'm not a scientist, I'm not really prepared to speculate very far, but I think this particular article is very important, and I think it will shift the debate.”
Dearlove believes the pandemic started as an accident and China has not published true casualty figures.
“Absolutely. China itself has suffered hugely and probably more than we realize because they will have not published the true figures. I do think that this started as an accident.”
Dearlove predicts complete UK reassessment of China relationship after pandemic, warns against Chinese economic control.
“I think there will be a complete reassessment of this situation for The UK and for many other countries in the aftermath of the pandemic.”
Dearlove endorses a peer-reviewed scientific paper on virus origins as a very important contribution to the debate.
“I think that the importance of the paper is that it is written by two very knowledgeable scientists, one a world leading virologist. Well, both of them are actually. It's been peer reviewed extensively.”
Dearlove agrees with Trump's hard line on China, saying an international inquiry into the pandemic is needed.
“But I think there's a lot about his China policy that's right, because we need an explanation from the Chinese as to what happened. We need an international inquiry.”
Dearlove believes the pandemic started as an accident, not a deliberate Chinese act.
“I do think that this started as an accident. Okay, once it started, there are things about the Chinese behavior which are completely shocking, but there was nothing deliberate about the origins of it.”