The U.S. State Department released a fact sheet on China’s Wuhan Institute for Virus Research (WIV) on Friday, January 15, stating that several researchers at WIV were infected with the Chinese Communist Party virus as early as the fall of 2019 and that WIV has been conducting secret biochemical weapons research for the Chinese Communist Party military.
Wuhan Virus Institute Helps Chinese Communist Military Conduct Secret Research
The U.S. State Department says that although the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research claims to be a private research institute, the U.S. government has concluded that the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has been working openly and secretly with the Chinese Communist military. And since 2017 at the latest, the Wuhan Virus Institute has been conducting classified research, including animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese Communist military.
In its statement of activities, the State Department wrote: “It has been a consistent practice of the CCP to keep information secret and non-disclosed. The U.S. government has for years expressed concern about the CCP’s past research on chemical and biological weapons, even though the CCP has a responsibility under the Biological and Chemical Weapons Convention to remove all of its chemical and biological weapons. And as a country that has funded civilian research at the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research, the United States and other sponsoring countries have the authority and obligation to determine whether their research funds are being diverted by the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research to secret CCP military research projects.”
Fall 2019 Wuhan Virus Institute has emerged as a researcher infected with the disease
The State Department wrote in the fact sheet, “The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virus were infected in the fall of 2019, before the first confirmed patient of the CCP virus emerged from the outbreak. This calls into question the credibility of Wuhan Virus Institute senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that ‘there are no patients with the CCP virus among the staff and students of the Wuhan Virus Institute.'”
The State Council noted, “Sudden outbreaks of virus outbreaks on the mainland are not uncommon; the 2004 Sars virus outbreak in Beijing was leaked from a laboratory, when nine people were infected and one died in the Beijing lab.”
The State Department also said the CCP has consistently refused to allow independent journalists, investigators and global public health authorities to question researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, including those who contracted the disease in the fall of 2019, and therefore urged the CCP to cooperate with investigations into the source of the virus by allowing investigators to question those researchers (who had contracted the disease) at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and to fully document their undisclosed illnesses.
Wuhan Institute of Virus Research was engaged in chimeric virus engineering research
The State Department also said the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has been a central unit in international coronavirus research since the 2003 Sars outbreak and has been studying animals similar to rats, bats and pangolins.
The institute announced in January 2020 that the RaTG13 virus it was studying was 96.2 percent similar to the CCP virus, a coronavirus collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virus from the Tongguan cave in Yunnan in 2013 after several miners there developed Sars-like symptoms. The Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has been working on RaTG13 since at least 2016, and showed no signs of stopping this research after the outbreak of the CCP virus.
The State Department fact sheet reads, “The Wuhan Institute of Virus Research has published records of its engagement in chimeric virus engineering research, but the Institute’s records of its research on studies similar to the CCP virus and the like are not transparent or consistent.”
Chimeric virus engineering is an engineering process that promotes the recombination of two pathogenic viruses to produce a new virus, a technique that could be used to develop biochemical weapons. The Soviet Union used this technique in the 1980s to combine Venezuelan equine encephalitis with smallpox and Ebola viruses to develop genetically recombinant viruses that were more lethal and infectious.
The State Department therefore urged “World Health Organization investigators to obtain records of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research’s research on bats and other coronaviruses prior to the outbreak of the CCP virus. And as part of a thorough investigation, they must also fully understand the reasons why the Wuhan Institute modified and then completely removed its research records on the RaTG13 virus and other viruses from its Web site.”
The State Department concluded by saying that as the CCP virus continues to ravage the world, and as WHO investigators are delayed for a year from beginning their investigation, the U.S. government will do all it can to support a credible and thorough international investigation into the source of the CCP virus and continue to demand that the CCP be transparent about it. And any credible investigation into the source of the virus will require access to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, collecting samples there, questioning personnel there and looking at records there.
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