In the year since the outbreak of the new pneumonia in Wuhan, Chinese officials have gone from concealing the epidemic in the early days to shirking responsibility and even pointing to the United States as the source of the virus on several occasions. Recently, the big foreign propaganda machine was activated again, with Xiong Lei, the daughter of the “king of Chinese communist spies” Xiong Xianghui and the current vice president of Xinhua News Agency’s China Special Report Agency, again pointing the “black hand” of the new pneumonia outbreak at the United States, and even blaming the United States for the SARS epidemic in 2003.
Xiong Lei’s article, titled “From the Genetic Scramble to the New Pneumonia Epidemic: A Journalist’s Record and Reflections,” recently circulated on the Chinese Internet and is more than 20,000 words long, mentions that Xu Xiping, then an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public health, conducted genetic research in Anhui Province in the mid-1990s and collected genetic samples there. The biography is more than 20,000 words long. According to Xiong Lei, the U.S. announced 15 projects in 2002, five times the number approved by the Chinese government, and questioned whether the research involved “bioethics” issues, including the knowledge of those sampled.
The article then refers to the 2003 SARS outbreak, citing unnamed biologists who claimed that SARS had a biological warfare effect and that the “vast majority of those infected were predominantly Chinese of Asian descent,” and cites the writings of angler Tong Zeng, who questioned whether “SARS could be a genetic weapon against the Chinese. Genetic weapons.”
Xiong Lei later linked the new coronavirus to the SARS virus, saying that both were targeting the respiratory system, “Think of how many samples of our asthma genes Harvard has taken. On the other hand, which country has China taken genetic samples from?” The article also said that “someone has picked up a stone and smashed their own feet. According to the article, China has learned from SARS and has used its strengths to the best of its ability to fight the epidemic, while those who played with the fire wanted to watch the fire from the other side of the river and were not prepared for it, but ended up burning themselves, “those who play with fire will burn themselves.
Xiong Lei also mentioned Tamiflu and the new crown drug Radciclovir for the treatment of SARS and questioned the American drug company Gilead: “They always have a special drug at home. How are they so prescient?”
The article has had a polarized reaction in China, with some commentators bluntly accusing it of being disinformation and “full of conspiracy theories,” but some Chinese netizens are convinced that “it turns out that the West had already moved on to Chinese genetic information that early on.”
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