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 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 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.”