A State Department report this month revealed that the Chinese Communist Party canceled a videoconference with U.S. officials last year. The meeting was intended to discuss growing U.S. concerns about the CCP’s secret biological weapons work. The sudden cancellation of a biological weapons meeting with the U.S., which had been held for three consecutive years, raised suspicions that the outbreak of the COVID19 virus was likely the result of a virus leak from a Wuhan laboratory.
According to the Washington Times, the State Department’s annual report on compliance with arms agreements released this month revealed that Chinese officials canceled a scheduled video conference with State Department arms control officials, citing technical issues, and the Chinese side did not specify what the technical issues were.
The report said it was the first time in four years that Beijing had declined to hold a meeting with U.S. officials to discuss alleged violations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), which came into force in 1975, raising concerns that Beijing was working on deadly microbial or viral weapons.
The State Department’s latest weapons compliance report contains a significant change in wording from last year’s report, which in 2020 stated that the CCP had engaged in activities with “potential” military applications. This year’s report drops the word “potential,” indicating that U.S. intelligence agencies have clarified some questions about the CCP’s covert biological warfare efforts.
One possible source of the new information is a Communist military doctor who fled to Europe last year with details of Beijing’s biological warfare program. The Washington Times reported on the defection last September.
This State Department report examines the record of the United States and several other countries in complying with international agreements on nuclear proliferation, chemical and biological weapons, and missile testing. This year’s report is critical of China (Communist Party of China), Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia and several other countries.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Congress this month that the virus lab leak was one of two theories leading to the origin of the COVID19 virus. The second is that the virus made the leap from bats to host animals to humans, although no animal hosts have been found so far.
While the CCP has consistently denied claims that the virus came from the Wuhan lab, some scientists and U.S. officials say the possibility cannot be ignored based on growing evidence of a covert CCP military biological warfare program.
The report says the CCP appears to be engaged in secret work on bacteriological weapons, while keeping the details of the work secret. Biological activities of a dual-use nature conducted by the Chinese Communist Party’s military have raised U.S. concerns about the Communist Party’s compliance with Article I of the Biological Weapons Convention.
The convention, which the CCP signed in 1984, requires signatories to refrain from producing microorganisms or biological agents for non-peaceful purposes “under any circumstances” and prohibits signatories from manufacturing weapons or delivery systems for biological agents or toxins. Under its terms, the Chinese Communist Party is required to disclose all current and past bacteriological weapons work.
The Washington Times revealed that the CCP has more than forty military research institutions run by its military. These institutions are alleged to have engaged in secret biological weapons work.
A senior U.S. State Department official disclosed last year that the CCP’s secret biological warfare efforts included engineered weapons designed to attack specific ethnic groups with pathogens.
The report suggests that retired Chinese Communist Party general Zhang Shibo (张仕波, pronounced Zhang Shibo) supported these claims in a book published in 2017. The book states that the development of modern biotechnology is gradually revealing its powerful offensive capabilities, including biological weapons capable of carrying out “ethnogenetically specific attacks.
The Chinese Communist Party’s offensive biological weapons program began in the 1950s and continued into the 1980s. U.S. government analysts do not believe that the CCP has completely eliminated its biological warfare program, as required by the convention. U.S. intelligence analysts insist that the CCP’s activities may violate the convention’s restrictions on the development, production or stockpiling of biological agents or toxins for non-peaceful uses.
The U.S. State Department provided the first public information on the CCP’s military biological weapons research last January, including a fact check on the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research. The institute is a complex with secure laboratories known to conduct research on bat coronavirus, the closest sample to the coronavirus that caused the global pandemic, with 96.2 percent similarity.
The verification also revealed that several researchers within the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research became ill in the fall of 2019, before the first case (of the CCP virus) was confirmed. The symptoms of these researchers were consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.
The U.S. State Department report said a thorough investigation of the virus must include a full accounting of why the Wuhan lab apparently changed and deleted online work records regarding RaTG13 and other viruses, the bat coronavirus identified by the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research in January 2020.
According to a 25-page investigative report released by DRASTIC, a multinational team of scientists, analysts and detectives that traces the origins of the virus, the team analyzed the web staging data and found that at least 15 databases at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research were offline without warning and could not be accessed, according to an exclusive March 2 report in The Sun. The administrators of these repositories are the Wuhan Virus Institute. The administrator of these databases is Shi Zhengli, deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research.
According to the report, the controversial main repository “batvirus.whiov.ac.cn” was blocked as early as September 2019 and was only claimed to be updated on December 30, 2019. On the same day, the Chinese authorities announced the discovery of a “new type of virus”. The database is believed to contain 22,000 virus samples and their genetic sequences, 15,000 bat samples, and 1,400 bat viruses.
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