Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated the coronavirus weapon five years before the Covid-19 pandemic and, according to media reports referring to U.S. State Department documents, may have predicted a third world war with biological weapons.
According to the British newspaper The Sun, which cited reports first published by The Australian, the “bombs” documents received from the US State Department reportedly show that the commanders of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) made the sinister prediction to meet.
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– The Australian (@australian) May 7, 2021
U.S. officials reportedly received the papers prepared in 2015 by military scientists and senior Chinese health officials as part of their own investigation into the origins of Covid-19.
Chinese scientists described SARS coronavirus – of which Covid is an example – as a “new era of genetic weapons”.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, some of which cause respiratory illnesses in humans ranging from the common cold to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
PLA papers
The aforementioned PLA papers seem to dream that a bioweapons attack could lead to the “collapse of the enemy’s medical system”.
It refers to work by U.S. Air Force Colonel Michael J. Ainscough, who predicted that World War III could be fought with biological weapons.
The paper also suggests that SARS – which hit China in 2003 – may have been an artificial bio-weapon that was deliberately unleashed by “terrorists”.
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According to reports, the viruses “could be artificially manipulated into a newly emerging human disease virus, then armed and released in unprecedented ways”.
The document lists some of the best public health figures in China among its authors and was revealed in an upcoming book on the origins of Covid called “What Really Happened in Wuhan.”
China reported the first Covid-19 case in the central Chinese city of Wuhan In late 2019 and since then, the deadly disease has turned into a pandemic affecting more than 157,789,300 people and causing over 3,285,200 deaths worldwide.
Concerns about China’s transparency
Tom Tugendhat MP and Australian politician James Paterson said the document raises major concerns about China’s transparency about the origins of Covid-19.
Tugendhat, chairman of the House of Commons foreign affairs selection committee, was quoted in The Sun as saying, “China’s apparent interest in biological weapons is extremely worrying. Even under the strictest controls, these weapons are dangerous.
“This document raises grave concerns about the ambitions of some of those advising the top party leadership.”
Peter Jennings, the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), told news.com.au that the document comes as close to a “smoking weapon” as we do.
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“I think this is significant because it clearly shows that Chinese scientists were considering a military application for different strains of the coronavirus and how it could be used,” Jennings said.
“It is beginning to solidify the possibility that we have an accidental military release here,” Jennings added.
He also said the document might explain why China has been so reluctant to face outside investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
“If this were a case of wet market transfer, it would be in China’s best interest to work together. We had the opposite of that.”
The 18 authors of the document listed include scientists and weapons experts from the People’s Liberation Army.
Document not forged, says cyber expert
Robert Potter, a cyber security specialist who analyzes leaked Chinese government documents, was asked by The Australian to review the paper. He says the document is definitely not a forgery.
“We have concluded that it is real. It is not a fake, but it is up to someone else to interpret how serious it is,” Potter told news.com.au.
“It turns out over the last few years that they (China) will almost certainly try to remove it once it’s covered.”
Origins of Covid
Questions about the origins of the deadly virus remain open after a much derided World Health Organization (WHO) investigation earlier this year, and the organization ordered another investigation what factors in the possibly of a laboratory leak.
Most scientists have said there is no evidence that Covid-19 was man-made – but the question remains whether it possibly escaped from a secret biolab in Wuhan – where the pandemic came from.
China is known to have conducted high-risk “functional gain” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in the Huanan Seafood Market near Ground Zero of the outbreak.
So far there is no evidence that it was deliberately released by China.
China’s answer
Meanwhile, the state-run Global Times newspaper in Beijing slammed the Australian for publishing the article to smear China.
An academic book dealing with bioterrorism and the possibilities of using viruses in warfare has been interpreted as a conspiracy theory by The Australian. Chen Hong, professor and director of the Australian Studies Center at East, intentionally and maliciously intends to invent excuses to smear China Normal University, the newspaper said.
“It is a shame for the anti-China forces in Australia to support their own ideology against China at the expense of basic journalistic ethics and to conspire to distort the real meaning of the book,” said Chen.
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