CIA & MI6 put together 'scientific' dossier ‘targeting China's Covid-19 cover-up’ - as West readies to demand Beijing COMPENSATION
The West’s wish to pin the blame on China (and probably the bill too) for the Covid-19 pandemic has been reportedly incarnated in a 15-page dossier compiled by intelligence agencies, which has now leaked, according to reports.
The document, described by the Australian newspaper the Sunday Telegraph, was prepared by “concerned Western governments.” The publication mentions that the Five Eyes intelligence agencies are investigating China, pointing to the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK.
The authors of the research found some pretty strange ways to paint China’s response to the outbreak in a negative and even sinister way. For instance, despite a presumed requirement for brevity in such a short paper it refers to a study which claimed the killer coronavirus had been created in a lab.
An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. April 17, 2020 © AFP / Hector Retamal
The scientific community’s consensus says otherwise, while US intelligence is on the record agreeing with this position. The study itself has been withdrawn because there was no direct proof to support the theory, as its author Botao Xiao acknowledged. But the ‘China dossier’ found a warm spot for a mention, it appears.
A large portion of the document is apparently dedicated to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and one of its top researchers, Shi Zhengli, who has a long and distinguished career of studying SARS-like coronaviruses and bats as their natural reservoirs. It seems the dossier is not interested in the database of bat-related viruses she helped create but rather in the claim that the Covid-19 pandemic started as a leak from her lab.
The dossier points to the so-called gain-of-function research that Dr. Shi was involved in. Such studies are aimed at identifying possible mutations in infectious agents that may occur naturally and makes them much more dangerous to humans. Creating stems with such mutations in the lab allows to prepare for a possible outbreak, though whether such research is worth the risk of accidental release or even bioterrorism attacks has been subject to much debate.
In the contents of the dossier however the implications seem clear: what if China lost control of one of its dangerous samples and then did everything it could to cover it up? The alleged obfuscation seems to be the main focus of the damning document. It claims Beijing was engaged in “suppression and destruction of evidence” including by disinfecting the food market believed to be the ground zero of the Covid-19 pandemic. China is also accused of hypocrisy because it imposed a ban on internal travel from the Hubei province while arguing against a ban on international flights.
“Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23,” the newspaper cited the document as saying. “Thousands fly overseas. Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home.”
The leaked dossier is yet to be made public for independent scrutiny. But the dramatic tone of the quotes in the Telegraph and the far-fetched implications indicate that it is along the lines of infamous intelligence assessments and media leaks by anonymous officials, which have been the staple of Western foreign policy for decades. Remember how Saddam Hussein secretly obtained yellowcake uranium and was ready to strike Europe with his missiles in 45 minutes? Or the Russian bots that swayed the 2016 election with memes? If true, we can expect many ‘revelations’ in months to come.
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That video is hilarious, but I note it seems to neglect salient facts regarding censorship of the outbreak in China, and that the lockdown was damn brutally barbaric in China, and China did consistently falsely report data, and the WHO did absolutely the same thing, clearly focused on giving China a reacharound rather than advocate for rational political positions, which is it's sole raison d'etre, making it utterly unworthy of any funding.
Clearly, anything coming out of any government or the media regarding this pathogen, the pandemic, and political responses and lacks of response to it is nothing but vile and deceptive propaganda.
Thanks for the giggle.
IF it's true that it was negligence on their part, IF it's proven, and IF China was to pay up (none of these things I expect are going to happen, btw.) It'll go right in the politician's pocket and people going broke thanks to their policies will never see a dime.
And what's up with the story about FBI guys bringing "something" to China, and the
Military Games in Wuhan..? A lot of Chaos of information and blaming whoever....
Be aware/push back the so-called "solutions", no matter who blames who.
whole world would now ask for compensation because its too much now
federal government topics and their problems
There are evidence, they're need not to proved anything that the Chinese government is accountable. Even the normal person know about the virus is man-made. Chinese shall pay all the expenses from day 1 of Covid-19 pandemic up to the last. Even the vaccine shall be charged to Chinese government.
Ha! No matter how right you are about the rest of your comment, I find the idea that China will pay a single Yuan to anyone for the pandemic utterly ludicrous.
That's not how politics works, or Mexico would be building the wall to keep gringos out.
Weapons of mass destruction part II.
This article is deeply misleading, and nothing but a propaganda piece. I'll thank you to not publish what amounts to deception on Hive ever again.
This paragraph illustrates your deceptive language and propaganda intent well for people familiar with science publishing and how it is politicized and funded. Botao and the other author of the paper, also named Xiao, work for the Government of China. The defiance of China's censors they undertook just for publishing that paper is breathtaking and courageous. They certainly risked death by quite unsavory means for doing so.
Of course, far lesser sanctions also have been threatened against them for that act. Certainly their jobs and incomes, along with every blessing of civilization that is now completely treated as privileges by China through their social credit system, were also under threat.
Publishing the paper revealed the facts and likelihood the SARS2 pandemic originated in WIV. Faced with death, dishonor, and penury unless they withdrew their paper which had achieved that goal just by being published they were compelled to withdraw it to live.
To further exacerbate your despicable implication that Xiao withdrew their paper because it was incorrect completely mischaracterizes the scientific method, because you point out even Xiao acknowledged there is no proof that the virus came out of WIV.
But proof simply does not exist scientifically. It cannot be the result of science. Science and empirical evidence can only disprove false hypotheses, and provide a likelihood of a hypothesis being correct.
Worse, you repeat the fallacy that science is based on consensus, and I here point out that most scientists are under political pressure to not speak forthrightly regarding a lab origin, while you imply that failure to attain consensus has any relation to facts or evidence whatsoever.
This article is a reprehensible political hatchet piece which presents zero evidence whatsoever to support it's thesis. It is utterly disingenuous, and I completely reject it's implications without reservation. I say this without taking any stand or offering any opinion on whether or not the lying propaganda coming from the 5 Eyes group is true or not.
All that is necessary to refute your insidious libel is to note it's nothing but implications, propaganda, and deception having no validity or relation to actual evidence one way or the other.
The best thing you could do is simply delete it. If you want to actually support your thesis then nothing in this article could contribute to that, so you're better off just starting over.
But, you won't, because your intent with this article was to mislead and deceive, and this BS was exactly what you intended.
That is despicable, and you are liable for it.