Honest SHARING (Truth) does far more good than BLAMING.

Viruses know no boundaries. It is time for countries to reach out and help one another—cooperate in the sharing of information, medical practice, expertise, equipment [Malaysian Consulate General-Nanning Head of mission Consul General Azlimi Zakaria at China-ASEAN leaders meeting November 2020]

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Truth From the Far East 

August 2020 PRC officials expressed their desire that United States officials open US bio-labs to media scrutiny. 

“We would really hope that the United States could 

• Open up its research base at Fort Detrick to the media 
• Release more information about its OVER 200 BIO-LABS OVERSEAS (caps emphasis added), and
• Invite WHO (World Health Organization) experts into (these labs) to conduct origin-tracing so it has a chance to tell the truth and offer an explanation to the American people and the international community.” (PRC spokesperson Zhao Lijian 2020) 

“…[I]n sharp contrast with U.S. political parties who put political gains first,” Zhao Lijian said, Chinese leadership “puts people and life front and center…; the Chinese government’s epidemic response can stand the test of time and history.” (Xinhua; China Diplomacy http://en.chinadiplomacy.org.cn/2020-08/13/content_76593790.shtml)

Truth from the Homeland

2007 US Congressional Subcommittee meeting on “Germs, Viruses, And Secrets: The Silent Proliferation of Bio-Laboratories in The United States” (excerpt from hearings): 

“No one in the Federal Government … knows for sure how many of these labs there are in the United States, much less what research they are doing or whether they are safe and secure”— Hon. Bart Stupak, US Representative from the state of Michigan.

 

“We know that the NIH said there were 277 in 2005 and today the number is estimated to be around 400.” There is a “lack of communication among agencies”: “… the FDA, the CDC, the NIH…; whether it is in health” …, a “sub,” “… inter-agency,” or an “intra-agency,” “communication and collaboration, the sharing of information seems (inadequate, unacceptable)” especially when considering … the type of research at issue— Hon. Marsha Blackburn, US Representative from the state of Tennessee.

Witnesses from the GAO (US Government Accountability Office) together with other knowledgeable agencies have given testimony that dramatic increases have occurred “in the number of high-level biosafety labs” in operation “over the last decade” (1997-2007). 

“… At the height of the Cold War…, this country had only two Level-4 laboratories (laboratories that handle deadly diseases that have no cure): one was at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and another belonging to the Army at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.” —Hon. John D. Dingell, US Representative from the state of Michigan 

[Under an hour’s drive from Washington, DC, Fort Detrick sits on a 1,200-acre (490 ha) campus whose inmates “conduct biomedical research and development, medical materiel management, global medical communications; and study foreign plant pathogens as well as Ebola and smallpox pathogens (gen reference]

“The problem is… as the number of labs increases, the risk increases; and as that risk increases, oversight becomes more difficult. As oversight becomes more difficult, the transparency of what is going on in the laboratories vanishes; and that is the major concern”—Hon. John D. Dingell, US Representative from the state of Michigan. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg44948/html/CHRG-110hhrg44948.htm

In January of 2023, according to a Time Magazine article later that year 

“a group of scientists recommended ‘enhanced oversight’ of (an interesting exception) non-federally funded research.”

They pointed to the obvious: that “oversight” means “awareness.” These federal government advisors, the article reported, were affiliated with “the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.” Time Magazine, August 31, 2023, “The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.” by Dan Greene, Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke. https://time.com/6309643/invisible-biolabs/

Today's Headlines 

SEVENTEEN YEARS after Congress’s the “Germs, Viruses, and Secrets: The Silent Proliferation of Bio-Laboratories in The United States” hearings, politicians restated their COVID19 pandemic-era statements. 

As reported in Medical Press December 3, 2024

“US lawmakers concluded a two-year investigation Monday into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 1.1 million Americans—BACKING THE THEORY that THE VIRUS LIKELY LEAKED FROM A CHINESE LABORATORY.” (caps emphasis added) Editors noted “US lawmakers back COVID Chinese lab leak theory after two-year probe” also in the “520-page” House Select Subcommittee “report on the Coronavirus Pandemic” was information on “the federal and state-level response and vaccination efforts.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-lawmakers-covid-chinese-lab-leak.html

Flashback 20 2020

This week’s laboratory-leak restatement of blame report brings to mind Zhao Lijian’s words seven years ago

The conclusion comes “as no surprise because we know certain individuals in the United States have their own ‘definition’ of truth: as long as (the fable) serves to attack and smear China—it is a fact.”

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US “Ill-intentioned accusations” viz. “‘origin of Coronavirus is China’; ‘China hid the information of COVID-19’…”— Du Wei

Ambassador Du Wei responded publicly to US/Pompeo just days before his death

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u Wei was a learned and experienced diplomat

• ·       Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff 1989-1990

• ·       Department of Soviet Union and Eastern European Affairs Attaché 1990-1992

• ·       Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Estonia Third Secretary, then Second Secretary 1994-1997

• ·       Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Assistant to the Secretary General 2003-2007

• ·       Department of European-Central Asian Affairs Counselor 2007-2011

• ·       Office of Important Diplomatic Documents and Speeches, Policy Planning Department Deputy Director-General and Division Director 2011-2013

• ·       Policy Planning Department Deputy Director-General 2013-2016

• ·       People’s Republic of China to Ukraine Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 2016-2019

• ·       People’s Republic of China to the State of Israel Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 2020-death May 17, 2020

•  ·       Education: Master’s degree of Laws

US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo contributed no substantial national service before being handed high US government office.

The two men have absolutely no credentials in statecraft. No experience, training, or education in international relations or diplomacy.

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he Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the State of Israel on May 15, 2020, posted Ambassador Du Wei’s response to wild charges made by the US Secretary of State (excerpted below)

“Before and after his visit to Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made some absurd comments on China, which can be summarized into three ill-intentioned accusations, namely, ‘the origin of Coronavirus is China’, ‘China hid the information of COVID-19’ and ‘China’s investments are threats’. It is imperative for the Embassy to make the following response and to set the record straight.”

1. Scientists still haven’t identified the origin of COVID-19. Historically, the place that first reported a case was often not its origin….

[S]ource tracing is serious science, which should be studied carefully by scientists in a global context. We should let facts speak for themselves, and not be misled by lies.

2. China has never covered up the outbreak.

COVID-19 is a brand new virus that has never been seen in human history.

·       It was on December 27, 2019, that China’s local government in Hubei Province first received the report of cases.

·       On December 31, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organization of the above information.

·       Starting from January 3, 2020, China began to send timely updates to the WHO and other countries, including the US.

·       On January 11, China put online the genome sequences of the virus. Throughout the fight against COVID-19, China’s experts, doctors and scientists have been in close contact with their counterparts worldwide, including those from the US.

·       Such an open and transparent manner has been highly appreciated by scientists around the world.

·       There is no ground to accuse China of obfuscating the information.

“Historical experience also shows that pandemic is accompanied by conspiracies and the dark mentality of seeking scapegoats. Jewish friends know it well. During the COVID-19, China has been targeted by a systematic smear campaign. Holding China accountable or even demanding reparations from China is a preposterous political farce. The intention is nothing but shifting blame to China for the inadequate response of someone else.

“Currently, the United States is the epicenter of the pandemic.

The Chinese people and government feel the same about the sufferings of the Americans, and we are deeply saddened by the death caused by the virus. But, the current situation in the US is not caused by China, rather the inaction of a few American politicians who missed the opportunity window to put the virus under control. From this aspect, the tragedy in the US is not only a natural disaster but also a series of mismanagement.

3. Mr. Pompeo also struck an old string on China-Israel business cooperation—‘security concerns’. Over the past few years, he has been labeling Chinese products, investments and personnel with the tag of ‘security risks’, without producing any concrete evidence….

“Chinese businesses are enthusiastic to cooperate with Israeli partners.

• But by the end of 2018, China’s investment in Israel only accounts for 0.4% of China’s investment across the world and 3% of the foreign investment flown into Israel….
• China’s investment over the years is even less than a single M&A deal of Intel. With such limited investment, how would Israel depend on China? And how would China buy up Israel?

“China-Israel cooperation is win-win in nature…. Chinese companies bring cost-effective labors that are much needed by Israel’s construction endeavor and provide a large number of job opportunities.”

Death of a Diplomat: Born in 1962 in Shandong, a coastal province of the People’s Republic of China, part of the East China region, served his country for 31 years, 1989-2020, Ambassador Du Wei is survived by his wife and son.

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f we allow thugs and barbarians, the vulgar and uncouth to govern; if we are forced to live in a land lost of law, lost of order and discipline, lost of moral and intellectual principles, lacking a rule of law that governs everyone—then all are prey of the deranged. 

If men in power can celebrate the deaths of others, instead of sensing the loss as their own loss, then we are all lost.

Sources

RT “Chinese envoy to Tel Aviv found dead at his residence, Israeli foreign ministry confirms” May 17, 2020 https://www.rt.com/news/488890-china-envoy-israel-dead-reports/

In an op-ed for the Jerusalem Post in March, Du described how he had undergone a two-week home quarantine after arriving in Israel. He urged all countries to work together in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The diplomat also called for the fight against “another common enemy” – misinformation – which included accusations of China concealing relevant data on the spread of the disease. Beijing has repeatedly denied such claims.

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the State of Israel

The Chinese Embassy in Israel published the response on China-related comments by Secretary Pompeo May 15, 2020

On May 14, The Jerusalem Post, the largest circulating English daily newspaper in Israel, published the Embassy’s response on the China-related comments made by US Secretary of State Pompeo before and after his recent visit to Israel.

Copyright © Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the State of Israel

Address: 222 Ben-Yehuda St. Tel Aviv, http://il.china-embassy.org

http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxw/t1779470.htm

http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxx/dszc/

“The Chinese Embassy in Israel published the response on China-related comments by Secretary Pompeo” May 15, 2020 http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxw/t1779470.htm

Biography of Ambassador Du Wei, http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxx/dszc/

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the State of Israel Du Wei March 3, 2020

Copyright © Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the State of Israel

Address: 222 Ben-Yehuda St. Tel Aviv, http://il.china-embassy.org

http://il.china-embassy.org/eng/dszc/

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo

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West aggresses Eastward, East progresses Upward and Westward

A country neglects its own, A germ escapes a laboratory

One professor takes the view that the Coronavirus is an “offensive biological warfare weapon” that leaped from the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory— in a world of Western “bio-safety” laboratories and a long, documented history of bio-warfare.   

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irus Labs (biocontainment or biosafety laboratories)

• ·       Lowest biosafety levels: regular hand-washing, minimal protective equipment.

• ·       Higher biosafety levels: airflow systems, multiple containment rooms, sealed containers, positive pressure personnel suits, established protocols for all procedures, extensive personnel training, and high level security to control access

BSLs

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designations of lowest to highest BSL-1 -4 / biosafety levels 1 – 4; sometimes designated P1-P4 for Pathogen or Protection level “is a set of biocontainment precautions (containment levels) required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility.

Total labs USA — U.S. Government Accountability Office as of October 4, 2007 reported across the United States

• ·       BSL-3 facilities (registered): 1,356 CDC/USDA

• ·       BSL-3 labs: 36 percent (est. ) in higher education institutions

• ·       BSL-4 facilities: 15 identified (including 9 at federal labs)

BSL-4 facilities worldwide locations extending at least to 1928 (Hamilton, Montana, United States Rocky Mountain Laboratories NIAID laboratory; focus on vector-borne diseases):

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Pedro Leopoldo, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Těchonín, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic, Lyon, Metropolis of Lyon, France, Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon,  Berlin, Germany, Hamburg, Germany, Isle of Riems, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, Budapest, Hungary, Pécs, Hungary, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland,

National Defense University, Taiwan, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom, Colindale, Greater London, United Kingdom, Mill Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Georgia State UniversityAtlanta, Georgia, United States, Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas, United States, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Hamilton, Montana, United States, Galveston, Texas, United States, San Antonio, Texas, United States, Osong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea

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r. Francis A. Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law Francis (AM, PhD Harvard University, JD Harvard Law School, AB University of Chicago; Expertise Areas: Constitutional Law (U.S. Foreign Affairs), Human Rights, Jurisprudence, U.S. Foreign Affairs; Professor, College of Law, Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Some of Professor Boyle’s published works: The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence (2013); Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution (2013); World Politics and International Law (2012);  Palestine, Palestinians and International Law (2009); Breaking All The Rules: Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment (2008);     Protesting Power: War, Resistance and Law (2007); Biowarfare and Terrorism (2006); Destroying World Order: US Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11 (2004).
 

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epe Escobar quoted Dr. Boyle in his February 21, 2020 article “No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War on China.”

Although there is … “‘no legitimate scientific reason to have BSL-4 labs,” the “‘United States, Europe, Russia, China and Israel” possess and use these labs to “‘research, develop, and test biological warfare agents.’”

His research shows that these labs and their “scientists” total in the thousands at costs in the hundreds of billions.

Professor Boyle takes the opinion, regarding the Coronavirus (aka 2019-nCoV or “Novel coronavirus” or “SARS-CoV-2) that the Chinese government covered up the germ leak until it was out of hand.

He also suggests, as other reports have suggested, that the World Health Organization has been compromised by private interests and cannot be trusted. 

The WHO, he said “‘works in cahoots with the CDC” (the U.S. government, though the CDC has also been compromised by private interests) and “‘in cahoots with Fort Detrick,’” the last “a cutting-edge bio-warfare lab (and) previously a notorious CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) den of mind control experiments.’”
 

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hina rising

The People’s Republic of China in 2013 lays out a global development strategy involving infrastructure development and investments in nearly 70 countries and international organizations in Asia, Europe, and Africa.” It is called the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI or B&R).

• ·       Many nations of the Global South sign on to BRI (completion planned for 2049) and Chinese companies sign contracts totaling upwards of “$128 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects in dozen of nations.”

• ·       China is the key hub of the global economy and the leading trade partner of nearly 130 nations.

• ·       By 2014, the Chinese economy had overtaken the U.S. on purchasing power parity (PPP) and as one decade closes and another opens, the U.S. finds its “share of the global economy shrinking as China’s increases,” Pepe Escobar writes.

In May 2015, China’s Premier Li Keqiang and his cabinet issued “Made in China 2025,” a strategic plan to upgrade Chinese industries’ manufacturing capabilities into a “more technology-intensive powerhouse” — from being “the ‘world’s factory’ (producing cheap, low-quality goods due to lower labor costs) to producing higher-value products and services.” China is

• ·       Beating the U.S. on patent filings

• ·       Producing annually at least 8 times as many STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduates as the United States

• ·       Earning the status of top contributor to global science.

All the while U.S. officials have been engaging in governance and statecraft by blame and complain; corruption benefiting private interests; and neglect of American’s public health, education and welfare, and their foresight and great potential for innovation and progress. 
 

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hina USA-Western cannot abide.

Pepe Escobar writes that after the People’s Republic of China managed “to reroute trade supply chains across Eurasia to its own advantage and to hollow out the American Heartland” leaving the Western elite “staring into a void … and the void staring back, it became clear that the “‘West’ led by the USA was faced with “irrelevance.”  And dirty ops were indicated.

The USA “system leader,” starting with stirring trouble across the periphery of Eurasia – from Ukraine to Syria to Myanmar— has refused to accept China’s advancement. And a pattern of bio-warfare research deeply etched in memory—from Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Korea, Vietnam and Fallujah— is a possible tool. The United States government has never blinked “when it comes to unleashing weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians,” Escobar recalls.  

The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose annual budget in 2019 was estimated at $3.427, has been in operation since the 1950’s. And it has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on developing new technologies for offensive military uses— including, in Escobar’s words, “a fortune on researching bats, coronaviruses and gene-editing bio-weapons.”

Going tough, Results Rough

“…The targeted assassination of Maj. Gen. Soleimani plus coronavirus (the Wuhan flu) set the stage for the ‘Raging Twenties’”, Escobar concludes. And in view of the historic pattern, it seems —

instead of COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV or “Novel coronavirus” or “SARS-CoV-2” virus designation —

a better choice should have been “WARS – Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome,” thus exposing “the game” for what it really is: “a War against Humanity” – regardless of where it originated.

Sources

Strategic Culture Foundation “No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War on China” by Pepe Escobar February 21, 2020 https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/21/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/

Francis Boyle https://law.illinois.edu/faculty-research/faculty-profiles/francis-boyle/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Boyle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019

Wikipedia Biosafety level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level

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