German bio-scientist and director of the Institute for Biosecurity in Halle, Kekuler never expected that the Chinese official media would use his words to “prove” that the new coronavirus originated in Italy. The Chinese official media also published his photo with the headline “China Cleared! The Chinese official media published his photo with the headline “China cleared!”, as if “human and material evidence is there”, but it was a hoax!
The New York Times, in an article titled “China Peddles Disinformation to Promote Overseas Origin of Neocoronaviruses,” reveals how the Chinese official media misrepresented the statements of a German scientist in order to discredit China, and how a series of comments and papers by scientists in China suggested that neocoronaviruses first appeared in Italy and Spain, among other countries. The allegations in the paper come from a research group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and point to the first outbreak of neoconaviruses in India before they reached China. The paper appeared without peer review in the online academic repository SSRN, but was removed at the authors’ request after media exposure.
In an attempt to divert attention to other countries, Chinese officials and scholars have recently advanced a theory that the neocoronavirus was brought to China from frozen packaged foods imported from abroad, although WHO has also made it clear that exposure to food and food packaging is highly unlikely, “but Chinese officials continue to believe this theory unabated.
Returning to the aforementioned German bio-scientist Kekuler, he has repeatedly stated that the new coronavirus first appeared in China, but the Chinese media have taken his research out of context, saying that he believes Italy, not China, is the birthplace of the new coronavirus. Last month, the scientist appeared on a television news program discussing the neo-coronavirus epidemic, saying specifically that it was clear that the virus first appeared in China. In the interview, he also criticized European officials for being too slow in detecting the virus, which he said allowed the disease to spread around the world.
The Chinese official media immediately seized on his words, with China’s Global TV Network reporting that Kekuler had noted that “the global pandemic started in northern Italy.
The Chinese media surprised him, telling reporters that “this is pure propaganda,” but the Chinese media’s propaganda “upset” him and he corrected it, telling German television that he had been misquoted. “But Kekule’s efforts were largely in vain. Video clips of his European remarks have been widely distributed on the Internet in China. Thousands of people have shared reports of his research in the Chinese official media, leaving messages such as ‘One billion Chinese people thank you! and ‘Not many scientists dare to speak the truth anymore.
The New York Times also reported that the words of Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Programme, were shared by the Chinese official media. Ryan, whose words were also distorted by the Chinese media, said in Geneva in late November that there was a need for a rigorous investigation of how the virus spreads from animals to humans, starting with the place where the first cases were found, “which is Wuhan, China.
The Chinese media, however, reported Michael Ryan’s words as “the first cases were found in Wuhan, China”. However, the Chinese media reported Michael Ryan’s words as “Before the discovery of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, the virus had already existed in other parts of the world”. Although Ryan made it clear in subsequent days that it was “highly speculative” that the new coronavirus originated outside of China, this was not reported in the Chinese official media.
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