European governments struggling with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic are hardening their positions toward China as suspicions grow over the level of transparency in the coronavirus’s country of origin.French President Emmanuel Macron accused Beijing of not being upfront over its handling of the epidemic, while in the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to involve Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. in the nation’s next-generation mobile network may fall prey to mounting opposition. The European Union’s position on China has been relatively measured, but leaders are beginning to call for a more thorough examination of its activities amid accusations Beijing has covered up the true scale of the epidemic. American intelligence officials are said to have concluded that China concealed the extent of its outbreak and under-reported the number of cases and deaths.Let’s not be so naive as to say it’s been much better at handling this,” Macron told the Financial Times in an interview published Thursday, referring to China. “We don’t know -- there are clearly things that have happened that we don’t know about.” China on Friday revised its official death count from the coronavirus, adding some 1,290 fatalities from the city of Wuhan. The government pushed back against accusations of a cover-up, with Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian saying that revisions were common practice and that China “has done nothing that should be criticized.” Revised Count “China would like to work with all countries including France and the U.K. to stick to multilateralism, strengthen solidarity and cooperation to jointly safeguard life and health of all people,” Zhao told reporters in Beijing. But tensions boiled over when the French government summoned the Chinese ambassador following the publication of a post on the embassy website that suggested France abandoned nursing home residents. France’s junior minister for European affairs, Amelie de Montchalin, also accused China and Russia last month of using the delivery of medical equipment to help spread propaganda in Europe.A French official who declined to be identified said France’s priority was to secure masks and other health supplies from China and other countries, adding that the incident was “over