Secretary of State <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/24/politics/blinken-nato-presser-speech/index.html" target="_blank">Antony Blinken</a> suggested the Biden administration would not take punitive action against China for its handling of <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/26/health/covid-war-doctors-sanjay-gupta/index.html" target="_blank">the Covid-19 outbreak</a> and instead stressed the importance of planning for and mitigating a future pandemic.

The top US diplomat spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash