Natalie’s Commentary: Why continue to fund the P4 Wuhan Virology lab where the deadly COVID-19 was genetically engineered used by China’s Chinese Communist Party, premeditated and nefariously released the pandemic worldwide killing millions of people. Specifically, 517,000 US citizens have died in the United States. Who is going to stop the projected elect Biden from killing more Americans? This was a national security hit.
“A rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large,” then-Vice President Joe Biden said in 2011.
Spring forward to 2021, after Chinaunleashed the coronavirus pandemic on the world, lied about its transmission and worked to cover up its origin, it seems President Biden feels the same way about China as he did a decade ago.
The U.S. is set to reinstate taxpayer funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that may have been the source of the coronavirus outbreak. The National Institutes of Health told the Daily Caller the Chinese virology lab has an active Foreign Assurance file that authorizes it for U.S. funding until 2024.
Last year, the NIH terminated U.S. funding to the lab until it was cleared of its involvement in the coronavirus outbreak. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization issued a report saying the virus more likely jumped to humans from animals than from being leaked by the lab. Voila — U.S. taxpayer money was returned to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There are a few huge problems with this.
First is the WHO’s investigation into the lab. The Wall Street Journal reported Chinese authorities refused to provide the WHO team with raw, personalized data or early cases that could help them determine how and when the coronavirus began spreading in China. Instead, it gave WHO investigators their analysis on the cases — so, basically, CCP propaganda, which the WHO happily repeated.
The second issue is the group of WHO investigators who examined the Wuhan lab was filled with CCP cronies. The only American in the delegation was Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit that the U.S. federal government uses to route its funding to the Wuhan virology lab. Yes, that’s right — the only American was the one whose nonprofit was funded by the U.S. federal government to allocate taxpayer money to the Chinese lab.
Matt Pottinger, former Trump deputy national security adviser, highlighted the issue Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
The panel of investigators sent to China by the WHO was “deeply conflicted” and composed of people who were hand-picked by the Chinese government, Mr. Pottinger said.
“You have a situation where it’s like you’re turning to the rabbits to investigate what happened to the lettuce that they were guarding,” Mr. Pottinger said. “And so, it’s not a credible exercise that we’ve seen undertaken to get to the roots of where this thing originated.”
Mr. Pottinger concluded: “If you weigh the circumstantial evidence, the ledger on the side of an explanation that says that this resulted from some kind of human error, it far outweighs the side of the scale that says this was some natural outbreak.”
Yet, the Biden administration has not only resumed U.S. taxpayer funding to the Wuhan lab, but they have also committed to refunding the WHO — without any commitments from the organization on better transparency. This is after the WHO ran cover for China last year, saying the virus didn’t spread human to human or asymptomatically. The WHO that praised the Chinese government for shutting down domestic travel but criticized the U.S. for shutting down international travel. The WHO whose coronavirus investigative team was thoroughly corrupt.
So, if you’re keeping track of the Biden administration, that’s two wins for China, zero for America. Farewell, America First. Welcome, a rising China.
The evidence linking the virus to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is “enormous” although largely circumstantial, U.S. officials concluded in a survey released just before Mr. Pompeo stepped down last month. According to Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Yu, State Department cables from 2018 warned there were biosafety problems at the institute.
The cables predicted that the infection method for the current SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, would involve human-to-human transmission. One cable noted that the director of the WIV high-security laboratory warned that the laboratory could benefit humanity but also “lead to a disaster.”
Critics say Chinese laboratories lack technical safety support and standards for safety requirements, while engaging in unsafe handling of lab animals and equipment.
Bloggers in China have reported that virus-carrying animals at the WIV were sold as pets and could be sold to wild animal markets. Wuhan’s Huanan Seaford Market is believed to be another possible source for the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Additionally, WIV virologist Shi Zengli has published a scientific report on bat coronaviruses, like the virus behind Covid, that involved laboratory engineering of bat viruses. Dr. Shi also warned in 2019 that a future outbreak of a SARS-like virus originating from bats would take place in China.
“At the time, WIV housed tens of thousands of bat virus samples and experiment animals,” Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Yu stated, noting that China’s government has resisted international monitoring at the WIV.
“The People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, has admitted to developing bioweapons,” they said. “In 2011 China informed the International Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention Review Conference that its military experts were working on the ‘creation of man-made pathogens,’ ‘genomics laying the foundation for pathogen transformation,’ ‘population-specific genetic markers,’ and ‘targeted drug-delivery technology making it easier to spread pathogens.’”
Additionally a study by the Chinese military in 2015 treated the 2003 outbreak of the SARS coronavirus outbreak as a “contemporary genetic weapon.”
“And in January 2021, the State Departmentconfirmed that people had fallen mysteriously ill at WIV in fall 2019, and that the WIV conducts secret bioweapons research with the PLA,” Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Yu said. “The Chinese Communist Party’s recklessness has already cost the world too much, and its obfuscation guarantees this won’t be the last such tragedy.”