Chinese news. Unreliable as ever. Chinese media are biggest liars. In the ENTIRE talk he never says "Chinese Virus did not originate in Wuhan". He only said that first reported sample was NOT the origin of virus, its origin came much earlier. He even gave a time frame for that -- between September 2019 and December 2019. He was talking about TIME and order of subtypes. He never denied the PLACE. Infact he never said anything about the place of origin.
"A" came earliest but it was NOT prevalent in Wuhan. It does not mean it was absent from Chinese population. It just came earlier. The most prevent subtype in Wuhan was B which came from A. This says NOTHING about the origin of Wuhan virus. The Chinese virus is most closely related to Chinese Virus in bats which is endemic in China. His own research shows that. This is the biggest indication that this virus originated in China.
No my dear. Its Chinese who are twisting his words. Here is what he published about geography of this outbreak:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117
And here what he said in the paper:
"Phylogenetic network of 160 SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
Node A is the root cluster obtained with the bat (R. affinis) coronavirus isolate BatCoVRaTG13 from Yunnan Province. Circle areas are proportional to the number of taxa, and each notch on the links represents a mutated nucleotide position."
This is the quintessential Chinese virus. It originated from Bat virus endemic in China.