In an exclusive interview with Fox News, David Asher, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former lead State Department investigator, said the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research “is running a secret, classified program. In my view, my view is that this is a biological weapons program.
Asher has worked in the State and Treasury Departments of both Democratic and Republican administrations on some of the most classified intelligence investigations. He led the team that uncovered the international nuclear procurement network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, and uncovered key parts of North Korea’s secret uranium enrichment. during the 2003 SARS outbreak, Asher served as the chief representative of the U.S. Department of State to the Chinese Communist government. in 2020, Asher served in the Trump administration’s State Department where he served to advise and support investigations into the proliferation and development of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. At the State Department, he led a task force for the Secretary of State’s office to investigate the origins of COVID19 and the role of the Chinese Communist government.
In response to the CCP virus, Asher believes that the CCP has engaged in a massive cover-up over the past 14 months.
Asher said during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute that he believes it may have been a weapon vector that went wrong, and while it may not have been intentionally released by the lab, it is possible that it was somehow leaked during the development process.
He argued that the virus ended up being the “best weapon” the Chinese Communist Party had against the world. He explained that the virus consumes 15 to 20 percent of global GDP; it has killed millions of people.
Asher said the Chinese government’s actions reminded him of other criminal investigations he has been in charge of.
He also said the virus’ initial victim base was linked to the institute, which conducts highly dangerous research.
Initially, the Chinese Communist Party said the COVID-19 virus originated in the Wuhan seafood market, but the problem with this Chinese Communist theory is that the first cases had nothing to do with that market. Last fall, the United States obtained information that several of the scientists in the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research had previously developed flu-like symptoms. They were hospitalized in November 2019, and this was before the first cases were officially announced in China.
In 2007, the Chinese Communist Party announced it would use controversial “gain of function” research to begin developing genetic biological weapons to make viruses more lethal, according to Asher and other Hudson Institute panelists.
In 2016, the Chinese Communist Party stopped talking publicly about their research at the Wuhan lab. Asher believes that’s when the CCP military stepped in to conduct the move from biodefense research to biological offense. That same year, Asher said, a senior commentator on Communist Party state television threatened, “We have entered an area of Chinese biological warfare, including the use of viruses and things like that.”
“I mean, they made a public statement to their own people that this is a new priority under Xi Jinping‘s national security policy.” Asher said.
Asher believes the Chinese Communist Party stopped talking publicly in 2017 about research into weapons-usable coronavirus disease vectors. At the same Time, its military began funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research.
Asher said he questions if it was all just a coincidence.
According to experts, the security of the Communist Party’s Biosafety Level 4 labs has long raised concerns.
“The Chinese Communist Party has been involved in this type of virus research since the SARS outbreak in 2003.” said Miles Yu, a former U.S. State Department adviser.
Yu recently co-authored an article on the origins of the virus with former Secretary of State Pompeo in the Wall Street Journal.
The WHO team sent to Wuhan in February spent three hours in the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research when they visited the institute. But they reportedly did not have access to scientists or the data they needed to completely rule out the possibility that the virus escaped from the lab.
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