On February 18, the first day after the New Year’s holiday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry resumed its regular press conference, it again directly blamed the United States for the source of the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan virus and New Crown virus), as Xinhua quoted the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson as saying, “Hua Chunying asks the US three questions on virus traceability”.
The report specifically emphasized that it was “in response to questions from the U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and others about the independence of the WHO’s international expert group to conduct virus traceability research in China.
On February 9, the WHO investigation team in China held a conference, which was actually operated by the Chinese Communist Party, and the public statement was that it was a joint study, not an independent investigation. At the Time, WHO expert Ambarek said “the possibility of this virus leaking from the laboratory is extremely small, and no further research is needed,” which immediately drew questions from all walks of Life. The White House quickly said it needed its own independent investigation, and the State Department said that “the Chinese [Communist Party] have not provided us with the necessary transparency we need.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai took one look at the wrong wind and immediately changed his tune, saying he would not rule out any hypothesis about the source of the virus. The CCP was apparently not satisfied, and on Feb. 14 and 15, Xinhua continuously scolded the Western media for speculation, but failed to get further cooperation from WHO. So on February 16, Xinhua was forced to change its tone again, reporting “WHO: Experts have reached consensus on the summary report on the traceability of the new coronavirus”, saying “the expert group does not rule out any hypothesis on the origin of the new coronavirus at this time”.
The Chinese Communist Party’s subtext actually prepared the ground for another pot-shot, and sure enough, on February 18, right after the Chinese Foreign Ministry went to work, it immediately dumped the U.S. directly. Spokesperson Hua Chunying said, “The virus and the Epidemic have emerged in the second half of 2019 at multiple points in the world …… Some of the influenza deaths in the United States in the fall of 2019 may actually be infected with New Crown Pneumonia… …antibodies to the New Coronavirus were already present in samples of blood donations from some Americans in December 2019.”
It is not surprising that the Chinese Communist Party has once again directly dumped the U.S. The new U.S. administration took office and avoided talking about the Chinese Communist Party’s concealment of the outbreak, not to mention its pursuit of responsibility for the outbreak. There was no mention of it in the calls between Biden and Xi Jinping, or between Blinken and Yang Jiechi, in their respective public statements. The new U.S. administration has clearly softened its stance on recourse, and the top brass of the Communist Party of China has allayed its concerns, instead emboldening itself to take the offensive and dump the blame directly on the United States. The Biden team’s first step on this issue, which is a matter of safety and security for the United States and the world, was clearly a misstep.
Before the WHO experts entered China, they were repeatedly blocked, with a series of twists and turns, and the new U.S. administration did not speak out publicly. It was only after a joint conference between WHO experts and the Chinese Communist Party on Feb. 9 that the U.S. began to react, more than a beat slower. Moreover, in its post-event statement, the U.S. government still did not directly mention the Chinese Communist Party’s concealment of the epidemic, and continued not to mention accountability for the epidemic, saying only that there was a lack of “transparency” and that the investigation was not independent, a rather weak stance.
Although subject to the Chinese Communist Party, WHO expert Ambarek still told the U.S. media that, at least in December 2019, there had been large-scale human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, China, and that the Chinese Communist Party had produced 174 hospitalized serious cases in December 2019, instead of “only 40 or so cases” as Hua Chunying had previously claimed. Ambarek reasoned that the 174 cases were likely only the severe cases noted by Chinese doctors, meaning the disease may have infected more than 1,000 people in Wuhan by December of that year. He also said that 13 different strains of the virus had been seen locally in Wuhan in December 2019, suggesting it had been spreading for a longer period of time.
The Chinese Communist Party did not admit to human-to-human transmission until Jan. 20, concealing that the outbreak was undeniable and possibly earlier, and Hua Chunying also revealed that the outbreak occurred “in the second half of 2019,” effectively admitting that the virus may have been spread to the United States and the rest of the world much earlier. The new U.S. government did not dare to take the initiative to investigate the blame, but the Chinese Communist Party saw the opportunity and immediately counterattacked. The latest Xinhua report quoted Hua Chunying as saying, “Can the U.S. side provide all the relevant raw data? Can the U.S. side cooperate fully with the WHO? Can the U.S. side invite WHO experts to the U.S. to conduct a traceability study and draw independent conclusions?”
This is the title of the Xinhua article, “Three Questions for the U.S.”. These three questions from the Communist Party of China are completely indignant and unworthy of mention, and most people would shake their heads helplessly or laugh it off. But it does raise a serious question for the new U.S. government. The U.S. government’s evasion of the Chinese Communist Party’s concealment of the epidemic is not in line with American interests and desires.
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