As the World health Organization is about to issue a report on its trip to China to investigate the origin of the Chinese Communist virus, Beijing has suggested a global investigation into the origin of the virus. Some commentators have suggested that Beijing’s aim is to muddy the waters.
Voice of America reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a briefing on March 12 with Professor Liang Wannian, the Chinese head of the WHO and Chinese team investigating the source of the CCP virus, who, on behalf of the joint WHO and Chinese investigation team, “suggested continuing the global search for possible early cases.
The briefing, which brought together more than 40 diplomats from 29 European countries and the European Union in China, continued to emphasize that the CCP virus was “most likely” introduced through an intermediate host species, “most likely” through direct transmission or cold-chain Food, and “very unlikely” to have been introduced through an intermediate host species. It is “highly unlikely” that it was introduced through a laboratory event.
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring, told the Voice of America, “What Beijing is doing is muddying the waters. The implication is that the outbreak did not come from China, but probably from a foreign country.
Hu Ping also noted that it was Chinese Communist Party virus expert Shi Zhengli who summed up the Sars outbreak by saying that the first concentrated outbreak was in hospitals. “If there had been an outbreak of the CCP virus elsewhere in the world in 2019, such as in the United States, Spain or France, earlier than in Wuhan, China, there would certainly have been widespread infection among health care workers.”
It is well known that this did not happen elsewhere, but it happened in Wuhan. Ding Xiangyang, deputy secretary general of the Communist Party of China State Council, told a news conference last March 6 that 3,000 hospital personnel in Hubei were infected with the CCP virus by the end of January.
Virologist Jonathan Latham, founder of the Bioscience Resource Project, a New York-based nonprofit science organization, and editor-in-chief of the Independent Science News Web site, said the Chinese call was logically untenable and that all the evidence pointed to the virus coming from China: first, it started in Wuhan; second, as of now, all the viruses closest to the new crown (SARS- CoV-2) viruses are in the vicinity, mainly in Yunnan Province, and one in northern Thailand. Thus, the logic of looking abroad is extremely weak as far as publicly available data are concerned.
Latham also analyzed that, judging from the mild suggestions made by the WHO in its recent press conference and subsequent interviews, for example, suggesting that China should search farms near Wuhan, trace the market food chain for signs of the virus, and identify more early patients, “this suggests collusion between the WHO and the CCP in order to avoid losing face with each other. “
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a Feb. 12 briefing that “all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and research.”
It has been more than a month since the WHO mission to China left the country. The mission was scheduled to produce a preliminary report first, but was then abruptly called off.
Europe has recently put pressure on the joint WHO and Chinese investigation report. Walter Stevens, the European Union’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, recently called for the report to be “fully transparent” and to answer the question “we all have it,” according to AFP.
Since the outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party has gone to great lengths to shrug off the virus as coming from a source other than China, sometimes Italy, sometimes the United States, and other countries.
In an interview with Epoch Times, Dr. Lin Xiaoxu of the U.S. Army Corps Virus Research Institute pointed out that the CCP has been downplaying the key fact that the virus originally broke out in Wuhan, and instead has continued to hype the concept of the source of the virus, muddying the waters because it is extremely difficult to find direct evidence.
Lin Xiaoxu said the so-called “investigation mission” of the World Health Organization is actually just a delegation, as it has no independence to hold the CCP accountable. Three of its 17 members are long-Time collaborators with the Chinese government and have serious conflicts of interest. In particular, Peter Daszak, who has a long history of cooperation with the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and who spoke at the conference on the origin of the virus, has considerable influence in the delegation.
Lin Xiaoxu pointed out that this brief investigation itself should not be centered on tracing the source of the virus, but on tracing the source of the Wuhan outbreak. Because in virology, tracing the source of a virus is very difficult and simply impossible to accomplish in two weeks.
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