We all know why this beach is empty today
On the other side of the Pacific ocean is China
It used to be one of the most fascinating places in the world
In the past 40 years, America had a long dream about this faraway land
The United States will do everything possible
to bring China into the World Trade Organization
And it will be a more open society and it will be a more open economy
Now, we are waking up from that dream
China doesn’t want the real story to be told
And this will change how the world looks at China for years to come
And for sure, we have lessons to learn
Is it a natural disaster?
Or is someone responsible for it?
When did the Chinese leadership know the virus could spread between people?
Are they trying to hide anything?
Hope you all help us
Now they are chasing me
And what did the Communist leadership do
when the virus was spreading to the world?
My name is Simone Gao
I was born and raised in China
Now, my home is here, in America, where I’m a journalist
We have to get to the bottom of this
because millions of families who have lost their loved ones
deserve to know the truth
We need to have a clear view of what really happened
This way, future generations can be free of this disease
both physically and spiritually
The virus started from this city - Wuhan
The rest of China was oblivious about the coming danger
We are not scared, we believe in the government
No need to wear masks
until this date
9:50pm, Monday, January 20th, 2020
Millions of the Chinese people were shocked when they watched this on CCTV
Professer Zhong, the next part comes to the following question
The past few days no one could confirm this
so today after the meeting you just had
about human-to-human transmission
what is the judgement now?
In the past [we] said there was danger
Now the information shows
it definitely transmits between people
Dr. Zhong Nanshan is the head of
the China Health Commission expert team investigating the outbreak
And, CCTV is the largest state-owned TV station in China
This was the first time China officially acknowledged
that the virus could spread among humans
The question is
when did the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, know about it
When Did the CCP Know？
On April 20th, China’s state news agency Xinhua
published an interview with Dr. Zhang Jixian
a government-certified first responder
In the report, Zhang recalled her first encounter with the mysterious virus:
On December 26th
an elderly woman was admitted
to the Hubei Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Dr. Zhang, director of the hospital's respiratory department
recalled that the woman had severe symptoms
fever, coughing, and shortness of breath
It seemed she had caught the flu or common pneumonia
But the CT scans of her didn’t support this diagnosis
The next day
the hospital received another patient, the woman’s husband
who had developed similar symptoms
Alarms started going off for Dr. Zhang
Knowing that the couple’s son took care of them when they got sick
she insisted that he get a checkup as well
His CT scan also showed similar results
That’s when it occurred to her:
It can’t be coincidence that three people in the same family had the same disease
She knew that the virus must have spread between them
So on December 27th
Dr. Zhang reported this to the local branch of the Chinese CDC
instead of using an internet reporting system
designed specifically for infectious diseases
China had spent 4.2 million dollarson this system
after the 2003 SARS outbreak
In theory
top medical authorities could know about new diseases
anywhere in the Country within 2 to 24 hours after discovery
Yet, as a loyal Communist Party member
Zhang only revealed this information to higher government bodies
in an antiquated manner
She toed the party line to hide information from the public
She only hinted that something was amiss
when she demanded medical staff in the ward beef up self-protection
In the next two days leading up to December 29th
the hospital received another four patients with similar lung infections
They all worked at the Huanan Seafood Market
and all knew each other
Now that there were 7 similar patients
the hospital went on alert
At two o’clock that afternoon
a panel of experts at the hospital drew a preliminary conclusion:
this virus could be transmitted among humans
Dr. Zhang told Xinhua
that she repeatedly asked the family
whether they had any contact with the seafood market
Not one of them had ever been to the market or had any relationship with it
After the panel, Zhang filed another report
this time directly to both the city level and provincial level CDC
Keeping in line with her party loyalty
Dr. Zhang instructed hospital staff to keep things quiet
and to not reveal any of this information to the public
At about the same time
another group of doctors, with very different views on public safety
also came across the new infection
He is already well known as the martyr of the Wuhan outbreak
Dr Li Wenliang was an eye doctor, working at the Wuhan Central Hospital
At 5PM, on December 30th
he sent out a warning over a Chinese messaging app called WeChat
He warned some of his fellow workers
that they should wear protective clothing
This was to avoid infection after seven patients from a local seafood market
exhibited SARS-like symptoms
His lack of political cunning was met with dire consequences
Late in the night on December 31st, around 1:30AM
Dr. Li was called into the Wuhan Health Commission offices for questioning
After sunrise
his employer ordered him to write a letter publicly
denouncing his own behavior
Starting from January 2nd
the Party’s mouthpiece CCTV continuously aired
a series of programs condemning so-called “rumor-mongers”?
Anyone who had shared information about the virus fell into this category
including Dr. Li
The following day, on January 3rd
local police detained Dr. Li
and forced him to sign a statement
admitting he had broken the law and “seriously disrupted social order”
CCTV bashed Dr. Li before he was forced to sign that statement
Why did state media move so quickly
and make such a big deal over a local doctor’s short warning on WeChat?
I spoke with Frank Qin, an expert on China
and one of the most diligent observers of the pandemic
Li Wenliang only sent out a message to his colleagues on social media
hy did the CCTV have such a dramatic response so quickly?
To have every major CCTV channel carry out
that sort of Unified deployment, unified action style of public condemnation
then it wasn’t a low level decision
It was something that the highest level of CCTV management decided
and CCTV is the top mouthpiece of the CCP
it’s guided by political and legal divisions
it’s guided by political and legal divisions
the CCP already knew what was happening
and they made this coordinated plan
Dr. Li’s lack of political obedience resulted in punishment
Dr. Zhang, on the other hand, for her party loyalty
was honored by the CCP
as the one who gave the first warning about the epidemic
Except, her warnings were totally ignored and overridden
We’ll look at the stance the regime took instead
On December 31th
the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announced on its website
that the Huanan Seafood Market
was linked to several recent cases of pneumonia
They claimed that preliminary investigations showed
no clear sign of human-to-human transmission
They further claimed that no healthcare workers had been infected
and the disease could be kept under control
This stance persisted for 20 days
despite overwhelming evidence that suggested otherwise
More and more medical staff fell ill on almost a daily basis
as Chinese media outlet Caixin reported
Jan. 5th
CT scans of Doctor Lu Jun from Tongji hospital showed abnormalities
The Wuhan Health Commission declared there was no clear human transmission
and no doctors infected
Jan. 6th
CT scans of a doctor from Wuhan Xinhua hospital showed infection
His hospital required staff not to spread “rumors”
Jan. 7th, Dr. Lu Jun was confirmed with a Covid-19 infection
3 days later, on January 10th
Dr. Wang Guangfa of the National Health Commission declared
no infections among medical personnel
The Wuhan Health Commision repeated this on the following day
January 13
3 Wuhan nurses were confirmed with infections
The Chinese Health Commission told the magazine Science
that there were no infections among the 760 medical staff
in close contact with COVID-19 patients
On Jan. 15 and 16
three more doctors either showed abnormal CT scans or were confirmed infected
Yet
the Wuhan Health Commission declared no new cases or medical staff infections
Jan. 18, Xinhua Hospital found 100 cases of CT abnormalities
4 medical staff in three hospitals in Wuhan were confirmed ill on the same day
The next day
the Wuhan government proceeded to invite 10,000 families
to a banquet in celebration of the Chinese New Year
9 nurses were confirmed on the same day
Jan 20th
Dr. Zhong Nanshan acknowledged human to human transmission on CCTV
Not long after Dr. Zhong acknowledged human transmission
top leadership got involved
General Secretary of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping
purged two top officials in Hubei province
and Wuhan city for mishandling the epidemic
However, in an interview the mayor of Wuhan Zhou Xianwang revealed
the tangled nature of communist bureaucracy
Disclosures about the outbreak were not timely
ope everyone can understand
I did not have permission to disclose sensitive information
There are laws on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases
the leader of a local government
I could only publish information after I received permission from the central government
Just as Wuhan’s mayor indicated
he did not have the final say on what to do
The decision ultimately comes from the top
We can confirm this from Internal government documents
On January 14th
while China’s health officials publicly announced on state television
that the risk of human-to-human transmission remained low
actions in the top leadership suggest a different understanding
An internal government fax obtained by The Epoch Times indicated
that on January 14th
local CDCs initiated the highest-level emergency response
The notice said that China’s National Health Commission
had already drawn up a set of treatment and prevention measures
They were in the process of passing them on to local health agencies
Some measures clearly indicate
that Chinese top leadership knew the disease could spread between people
well before the CCP publicized this information
For example
the document ordered hospitals to train staff on preventative measures
and take steps to stop the disease from spreading among medical workers
But there's more
The Chinese military knew about the outbreak
even before the Chinese CDC issued the prevention measures
This can be seen in this internal document
from the Naval Engineering University
The January 2nd document ordered
the university security department to monitor visitors
who were suspected of being infected with an unknown pneumonia
originating from Wuhan
It further states
that this order is to follow a Naval Engineering department instruction
series number 298, issued in 2019
The earliest and most accurate intelligence came from the Chinese military
The Naval Engineering University producing documents like these implicates the Chinese Military
hey very likely knew about the outbreak and transmissibility
n December 2019, or even earlier
All these instructions were marked “internal”
Some specifically say “not to be spread on the internet”
and “not to be publicly disclosed”
And so it stayed that way
The CCP kept the 1.4 billion people of China
unaware of the danger of this virus for at least 20 days
And the timing couldn’t have been worse
On January 7th
Xi jinping ordered:
The information of the outbreak must not damage
the atmosphere of a peaceful and happy holiday
And what holiday atmosphere was that?
Right at that time, less than two weeks from the Chinese New Year
hundreds of millions of Chinese people
had started heading home for the largest holiday in China
Trains, buses, and flights were packed
After all, it is the largest human migration on the planet
In Wuhan
the 10,000-people family banquet was still yet to happen
while five million people were leaving the city
for destinations around the world
Reporting to the world
As 2020 approached
the United States found itself in a tense and rare time
For just the third time in American history
a sitting president had been impeached
The media focus was entirely on the impending Senate decision
and if Trump would be removed from office
Anything beyond the United States borders seemed trivial
And that’s right
when the news of an unknown virus spreading in a far off land quietly arrived
at the U.S. CDC headquarters in Atlanta
According to an April 4th Washington post report
The CDC learned of a cluster of cases in China on December 31st
But this information was not provided by the Chinese authorities
In fact
it wasn’t until January 3rd
when CDC director Robert Redfield received a call from a counterpart in China
The Chinese CDC told Redfield
that a mysterious illness had been spreading inside Wuhan
We inquired about the details of that phone call to the CDC
particularly when the Chinese CDC told the US
that the virus could spread between people
The CDC did not respond
The rest of the world
began to know something was going on inside Wuhan by mid January
But the world wasn’t told the severity
On January 14th
the W.H.O. began echoing the Chinese government’s stance of
no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission
It also recommended no travel bans
The WHO maintained
its position about the unverified
or limited nature of human-to-human transmission
until January 23rd
three days after China publicly confirmed such transmission
Meanwhile
in the United States, on January 18th
President Trump was finally substantially briefed
by health officials about the coronavirus
He had been receiving intelligence briefings before that
tracking the spread of the virus in China
and later, in other countries
According to the Post
The briefings did not predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores
It also did not recommend particular steps that public health officials should take
It did, however, warn that
Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak
One week after that briefing
President Trump placed a travel ban on China
His ban was one of the first in the Western hemisphere
Political opponents criticized him for overreacting
and being racist for banning Chinese travelers
Only history has proven
that this move was neither excessive nor early enough, after all
According to VariFlight, an aviation data company based in China
by mid January
about 4,000 people had already entered the United States directly from Wuhan
In January alone
about 381,000 travelers flew directly from China to the United States
What’s even more worrying is
that after China locked down internally
outbound traffic from China did not slow down
On January 23rd, Wuhan was the first to fully lock down
All the remaining provinces in China followed suit before Feb 10th.?
Under the total lockdown
Chinese people could not travel domestically
but were still allowed to go abroad
In fact
while implementing strict domestic quarantine measures in February
the Chinese regime kept reassuring the world
that the outbreak was fully under control
And it continued to encourage international travel from Chinese cities
Chinese state media Xinhua confirmed this on February 6th
They reported that two days earlier
the Civil Aviation Administration required Chinese airlines
to continue flying international routes to nations
that had no travel restrictions
On February 3rd
the WHO once again parroted China
at the opening of the agency’s Executive Board meeting
Director General Tedros supported China’s assertion
that all was well for international travel
“There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade
We call on all countries to implement decisions
that are evidence-based and consistent”
According to VariFlight
scheduled international flight services from China
did not face a significant dropoff until March 30th
while scheduled domestic travel was severely limited as early as February 9th
Why would the CCP hide the human to human transmission
then allow people to travel abroad??
The CCP always takes its political power as the most important thing
It also takes economic operations as extremely important
since economic operations guarantee social stability [inside China]
and thus guarantees its political power
So in this process
the CCP let international flights continue their travel
that way it could give the world a false appearance of stability
guaranteeing multinational companies would stay inside China
And to the whole world
the CCP gave people the false impression that it could control the epidemic and the situation
That was to avoid all of its foreign investment from vanishing
and all of its businesses going into upheaval
So in this situation
the CCP did not order international flights to close down
On top of that
on January 31st
we saw that the CCP was aggravated after Trump ordered a temporary ban on Chinese air travel
The foreign ministry issued criticism
so that goes to show that [the CCP] takes economic profit as more important than human life
That’s not just saying it doesn’t regard Chinese people’s lives
but [the CCP] doesn’t care about any lives in any country of the world
Like what we have discussed
there are practical reasons for their silence
like keeping up appearances
so foreign investors won’t get scared off
As to whether they had other more sinister intentions
such as spreading the virus to the entire world
We don’t really know for sure
But what we are sure about is
that the CCP knew in early January
that there would be world wide competition on the horizon for one specific product
The Associated Press obtained
a four-page Department of Homeland Security Intelligence report, dated May 1st
According to the report
Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January
While doing so
they increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies
It attempted to cover this up by
“denying there were export restrictions and delaying provision of its trade data”?
High ranking officials in Taiwan support this
Chen Chi-mai, Vice Premier of the Republic of China
spoke about medical supplies in a recent interview with the Formosa TV network
Mr. Chen revealed that while looking to place orders on facemasks
he made a phone call to one of Taiwan’s local medical supply manufacturers on January 27th
I made a phone call to Huang Qingshan
The CEO of Nanliu enterprise which is the manufacturer of Non-woven cloth
And I was told
that China had purchased a huge amount of non-woven cloth from India one month ago
So the masks are out of stock all around the world
On May 14th, 2020
the FBI issued a statement on a new investigation
China-affiliated cyber actors have been both targeting
and compromising U.S. organizations conducting COVID-19-related research
These attacks aimed to steal research results related to vaccines, treatments, and testing
According to the Wall Street Journal
U.S. officials stated that China and Iran started such attacks as early as Jan. 3rd.
When I saw this news
what really caught my eye was not that the CCP
tried to steal vaccine research since stealing intellectual property
is what they always do
What really caught my eye was
that they started to do it on Jan. 3
That means they knew how serious this was at that time already
If the CCP was just trying to hide the identity of the virus
and the scale of the outbreak
we’d expect them to relent on the coverup
after the rest of the world figured it out
However
the CCP continues to rigidly maintain the cover-up
just like in the earliest days
Why is that?
What else could they be hiding?
What are they trying to hide?
Christmas Eve
It was just a normal working day in Guangzhou
a sprawling port city northwest
of Hong Kong on the Pearl River
On that day
Vision Medicals, a genetic technology company
made a critical discovery
They received a fluid sample from a patient in Wuhan
That sample contained a SARS-like coronavirus
that was similar to the 2003 SARS virus
81% similar, to be precise
Time was of the essence to get the information out
On December 27th
the lab relayed the test results
to the Wuhan Central Hospital over the phone
They also shared the nearly-complete gene sequence
with the Institute of Pathology and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
In internal company messages
Researchers described the virus as a Bat-like SARS coronavirus
On the 29th and 30th
Vision Medicals researchers went to Wuhan in person to report their findings
They exchanged all their analysis results
with the leaders of the Wuhan Central hospital
and the Wuhan disease control center
The following day on January 1st
one of the lab researchers received a phone call
from a Hubei Provincial Health Commission official
The official gave the following orders
existing lab samples must be destroyed
and the lab was forbidden from studying new samples from Wuhan
Any existing analysis, papers, or data
can not be shared to the outside world
Finally
any future findings must only be reported to the government
Then on January 3rd
another lab outside of Wuhan
received samples from ground zero
The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
began sequencing the genome
Two days later
on January 5th
the clinical center finished the sequence
confirming a new form of SARS
that had never been seen before
The clinical center reported this to both the Shanghai
and National Health Commissions
They reported the disease was similar to SARS
suspected it was airborne
and recommended that public areas undertake safety measures
to control the spread
But, just like the doctor’s warnings from before
both government entities seemingly ignored
the information and warnings
After almost a week of no response from any government body
on January 11th
the team from the clinical center
took a bold step
and published the full genome sequence online
through Virologic.org and GenBank
This was the first time the rest of the world
could see the full virus genome
And like clockwork
the team’s research laboratory
was shut down the following day
What Vision Medicals and the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
were not isolated order from Chinese health officials
Chinese top medical authorities expanded such a ban
to the entire nation as early as January 3
What can genome sequencing reveal?
Why were the Chinese authorities so determined to
destroy the genome sequences and samples?
I spoke with Stephen Hatfill former researcher for
the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
So What does genome sequencing reveal?
Can it reveal the identity of the virus and when it came about?
Yeah
Basically
to have the genome sequence of any virus
lets you establish its family tree
Uh, and because mutations occur in different viruses at set rates
you can take an early strain and a new strain
and you can compare the changes that have occurred
the random changes
And it's almost like running a clock backwards
You can see how many new mutations have appeared in this virus
compared to this older known virus
And you can run the clock back
and make an estimate of when all this new strain appeared
it's called a molecular clock
Dr Hatfill said
by studying the genome sequence
we can roughly know when the virus came about
while researchers in the UK did exactly that
On April 17th
UK’s Dailymail reported
that a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge
gathered data on the possible start of the outbreak
Their analysis concluded
that the spread began at some point between
September 13th and December 7th
On May 5th
Sciencedirect published a paper
by a group of UK and French scientists
focusing on Phylogenetic research
which observes the development of specific organisms.
Their estimates suggest
that the pandemic started sometime
between October 6th, and December 11th
Coincidentally
On May 9th
The London-based NBC
News Verification Unit reported private analysis
that fit into that time frame
The report indicated
there was no publicly available cell phone activity
in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology
from October 7th to October 24th 2019
They suggested that there may have been a "hazardous event"
sometime between October 6th and 11th
The report says
during this time
it is believed that roadblocks were put in place
to prevent traffic from coming near the facility
We looked into the traffic reports in Wuhan during that time period
Since the Military World Games took place in Wuhan
from October 18th to the 27th
the local government locked down a mountain called Bafengshan
right in the backyard of the Wuhan Virology lab
However, the lockdown dates did not match up with the reported dates
of no cell phone activity
Therefore, it’s unlikely that the games
influenced cell phone activity in the area
If there is evidence of a lab shutdown
it would bolster theories that 「China made a terrible mistake」
as President Donald Trump indicated
In fact
the State Department received warnings from the US Embassy staff in 2018
that the Wuhan institute of virology had lax security
and severe shortages of properly trained technicians
The Chinese had previously even asked for American’s help in that regard
So does this make an accidental leak
from the lab feasible?
So far
we haven’t found any hard proof of either a lab shutdown
or that the virus was mistakenly leaked from the lab
But we must explore this direction
simply because the Chinese leadership has revealed
that something was wrong with Chinese laboratories
Dangerous Labs
Deep in the mountains of southwest China
there are caves millions of years in the making
They are famous for two things
stalactites and bats
Bats were found to be the source of the 2003 SARS outbreak
Before this was well known
one woman
leading a team of researchers
was tasked with finding that source
Dr. Shi Zhengli and her team
stumbled upon a bat cave in these tropical mountains
The bats were hosts to 10 different families
of the SARS coronavirus
As the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
this finding eventually helped her discover the pathogen
that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak
She brought thousands of the bat coronavirus samples
back to her lab in Wuhan
1100 miles from the Yunnan bat caves
Then
when the 2019 outbreak started
Dr. Shi swore on her life that the virus did not come from the lab
Her argument was
that none of the genome sequences of the bat-coronaviruses in her lab
matched that of the Covid-19
However
two things casted doubt on Dr Shi’s pledge
First, is what has been revealed about China’s biolabs in general
and second, is what happens at the Wuhan Institute of Virology specifically
What are Chinese biolabs really like?
I asked Dr. Sean Lin
former lab director of the viral disease branch
of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
He also used to work at virology labs in China
The key issue here is about lab safety and management practice
for lab or animal facilities at biosafety level 3 or 4
that’s P3 or P4 lab
especially in terms of the protection measures for lab technicians
or the disposal procedures for animal corpses
We know China has been very aggressive
for the last 20 years to build up P3 and P4 labs
and right now China
has about 40 P3 or P4 labs nation-wide
and we even see new plans to build up
more P3/P4 labs after the COVID-19 outbreak
This is of huge concern
First, China was relatively new to this field
And even the Wuhan Institute of Virology P4 lab
was observed to have security concerns
and was short of well-trained professionals
This was documented in a 2018 report from the Department of State
when they sent two advisors to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
to evaluate the situation there
And we also know the Wuhan Institute of Virology was actually directed under
the University of Texas, Galveston National Laboratory
So this indicated that even the Chinese scientists relied on U.S. experts
to ensure and advise the safe operation of their P4 facility
So, does that mean the American lab 
is responsible for what happened in the Wuhan lab?
No
Because the Galveston National Lab was only responsible for establishing
the protocols for lab safety operations for biosecurity procedures
But the real operation is up to the local team in Wuhan
It is a common practice to conduct mutagenesis studies on viral genomes
in order to understand the functions of
different viral genome components and viral proteins
But one set of experiments of particular concern is the Gain-of-function studies 
So, in this kind of studies
you can conduct molecular level genetic engineering
or you can infect cell lines for example with a bat coronavirus strain
with or without genetic manipulation
You can conduct this experiment in parallel in multiple cell culture flasks
So after a few days exposed to infection
you can collect the supernatant from the flask
with the most severe cell dying
 And then you use the supernatant to do another round of infection
So, you basically select
the viral mutants with higher infectivities in each round
Similarly
you can conduct this kind of experiment
in animal models like mice or ferrets
so basically, you select viral mutants that can spread faster
or cause more severe disease in animal models
So this is the typical gain-of-function studies
And we know Shi Zhengli’s group from Wuhan Institute of Virology
together with their collaborators in the U.S.
published an article on Nature Magazine in 2015
In this study they documented the enhancement of pathogenicities
when you have the spike of a bat coronavirus strain
put on the backbone of a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV
This study raised serious bioethics concerns at that moment
and the U.S. suspended this kind of studies for a while
However
it’s not known whether these kinds of studies were further pursued in China
especially under some joint projects with Chinese military medicine units
like the ones in Wuhan and Nanjing
This is not saying that the Chinese scientists have the intelligence
to design a virus like SARS-CoV-2
but this kind of gain-of-function studies are so dangerous
and with unpredictable outcome
And that is why it is very vital for the whole world
to know whether China is still continuing this kind of experiments
China’s lax lab standards are well known
to insiders and these widespread practices
in Chinese labs have gone on for years
Then suddenly
on January 16th, 2020
four days before publicly acknowledging human transmission
the China Science and Technology Department released
guidelines on safety and management of viral laboratories
A month later
On Feb. 14th
Xi Jinping made comments about accelerating biosafety legislation
at the committee for national reform
Xi Jinping commented on
such legislation at this special time
It very likely suggests that he already knew
about the leak in the viral lab
So he had to show his concern
about biosecurity by putting through legislation
As a remedy (for the current problems)
In the future if the world holds him accountable
he can find a scapegoat
saying that someone violated such legislation
rather than mishandling by the central authority
The Chinese leadership not only banned research on
the origin of the virus inside China
but they also continue to deny access to foreign experts
This has gone on for months
All the important evidence may now be gone
or destroyed
Are there simply too many tracks to cover?
Can we believe anything they've told us?
Shifting Blames
This website is called Xi Lu
or West Land in English
It is one of the most influential websites about the Chinese military
On January 26th, Xilu published an article
claiming a so-called “culprit” of the virus had been found
Citing research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
the article purports that the coronavirus is not a product of nature
Instead the article wrote
“Four key proteins in the virus have been replaced
so that it can target Chinese people”
And who would create such a virus to target the Chinese?
According to the article, it was none other than the United States
The article claimed 
the virus was deployed by U.S. service members 
while participating in the Military World Games in October 2019
Though that particular article was removed from the website in early February
the narrative of an American origin has persisted
On March 12th
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian 
republished a video of 
Robert Redfield addressing a U.S. Congressional committee
In the clip, Redfield said 
some influenza deaths in the US were later identified as cases of COVID-19
Referring to this clip
Zhao wrote, “The CDC was caught on the spot
When did patient zero begin in the US? 
It might be the U.S. army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan
Be transparent! Make public your data! 
The U.S. owes us an explanation!”
Zhao's fellow Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang 
later backed him up
suggesting “the U.S. is hiding something”
 
5 months into the pandemic
the theory that the virus originated in America is still very much alive in China
In fact, if you search on China’s equivalent of google, called Baidu
using the key words: Virus came from America
66 million results come up 
Cost of the CCP Virus
Late spring in New York is a charming time of new life
Blue skies, chirping birds, and spectacular blooming
But inside the buildings, people are dying
In April 2020
as New York State became the national epicenter
 
the daily death toll from Covid-19 
peaked at 805 people in a single day
As of June 26, over 124,000 people have died in the whole country
a toll that has surpassed 
the 47,000 American deaths in the Vietnam war 
The global economy slipped into a recession 
on a scale not seen since World War II
 33 million people have sought U.S. unemployment aid since the virus hit
The numbers are heart-wrenching
What makes it worse is that we know this could have been prevented
A study by the University of Southampton indicated 
that if China had taken measures to address the virus earlier
they could have prevented about 95％ of the infections throughout the world 
Some people say, the American government
the Trump administration is also at fault
they could have done better
and acted earlier with the knowledge they had
After all, the whole world was at the same starting point
Why did Taiwan and South Korea end up in a much better place? 
That may be true to some extent
But this argument is diverting attention from the elephant in the room
That is
who let this happened to the world in the first place? 
To people in China, the answer to that
and what they are seeing today is not an unprecedented catastrophe
 
but rather, it is history repeating itself 
For the past 70 years
China has been plagued with an ominous curse
causing either man-made disasters,
or natural disasters turned man-made
The largest famine in human history
ending 45 million lives
was known as the Great Leap Forward
What caused it? 
They said it was drought
  
but it was really Chairman Mao trying to accelerate
agrarian China towards Communist Utopia
Systemic lying created imaginary surpluses of crops
Government officials gathered crops that did exist
and left the peasant population 
to die without the food that they themselves grew
The CCP has long
since covered up this disaster
 as Chinese citizens know nothing 
of the true scale of the famine
In 1989
as blood soaked college students were carried away on makeshift gurneys
the CCP claimed 
they did not fire a single shot during the Tiananmen Square massacre
They maintained 
that only about 200 civilians died in the turmoil
A recent declassified UK document indicates
the PLA killed at least 10,000 people
Chinese students today don’t even know 
there was ever a protest in Tiananmen
In 2003, as SARS swept through China
the CCP concealed how many people were infected
Only China’s neighbors, like Taiwan and South Korea
had experience with handling such respiratory infections
had experience with handling such respiratory infections
In 2008
Over 87,000 people lost their lives
in the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province
Independent investigations showed
shoddy construction had caused the deaths of thousands of children
However, the CCP jailed these investigators
 
From July 1999
a traditional Chinese mind and body exercise called Falun Dafa
has been persecuted in China
The CCP has used Falun Gong practitioners
as well as other political prisoners as forced organ donors
harvesting and selling vital organs on a national scale
Independent investigators have concluded
That this claim is true
The CCP still denies it to this day   
And yes, the CCP once again covered up another disaster
This is what it has always done
and will always do
Why has this persisted for so long? 
Maybe we should ask
what criminal would ever stop their crimes 
if they weren’t held accountable? 
Who let the CCP run rampant?
In 1989
as dried blood and tank treads
were disappearing from the roads of Tiananmen square
a secret envoy from President George H.W. Bush arrived in Beijing
He extended an olive branch to former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping
Bush consoled Deng
saying that all the public condemnations for the massacre
were nothing more than political rhetoric
Bush authorized a delivery of military supplies to China 
in the wake of Tiananmen
(Bill Clinton): Change in our nation, change in our leadership
Change in our nation
President Bill Clinton campaigned that he would be tough on China
However, his tough stance quickly softened after he took office
The Communist leadership
mobilized a pro-China coalition within both the administration and congress
As a result, not only were sanctions against China quickly lifted
but also Clinton helped China enter the World Trade Organization
He also granted China the status of most favored nation
Not just the political sphere
but technological and financial companies are assisting China as well
U.S. tech giants 
facilitated China forming into a police state with invasive surveillance
Cisco laid the foundation for China’s Great Firewall
as well as an information surveillance system called the Golden Shield project
IBM provides servers to Golden Shield Engineering
Oracle provides Database services
and Microsoft provides a personal operating system
Led by JP Morgan Chase
the CCP’s old friend Wall Street has channelled a huge amount of money 
to the Chinese Communist regime over the past 40 years
JPMorgan succumbed to nepotism 
when it hired children of high ranking Chinese officials
This helped the company win billions of dollars of Chinese business contracts
Morgan Stanley investment indexes include Chinese companies 
that often pose a national security threat to America
Its actions have resulted 
in trillions of U.S. dollars being invested in the Chinese economy
There is one particular company listed on a Morgan Stanley index 
that we need to single out
It’s called Tencent
and it owns the Chinese social media giant WeChat
WeChat has long helped the CCP monitor dissidents
The whistleblower of this pandemic
Dr. Li Wenliang and others were first tracked and reported on WeChat 
when they exposed the virus’s spread via this social media platform
(Steve Bannon): the only reason this situation has gotten as bad as it’s gotten
is because the capitalist in the West, the Wall Street 
and the city of London and certain corporatist, certain elites,
what I call the party of Davos, right, 
have basically financed the CCP 
and has allowed them to get technology.
Those days are over
In China and America alike, we have a saying
“what goes around, comes around”
For the past 40 years
America and the West have been in a state of willful ignorance
to put it nicely, about the CCP’s crimes
Now, the circumstances 
have forced us to face the consequences of that negligence. 
China has a rich history
splendid culture and profound spiritual tradition
Lao Tzu would have been able to hold a candid conversation 
with Socrates about ethics and the laws of the universe
China’s millennia-long tradition of revering Heaven and the ancestors 
echoes Edmund Burke's concept of an eternal society 
where there is a contract among the dead, the living, and the unborn
But before China revives those traditions
there must first be a decoupling between the CCP and the United States
I hope this decoupling will happen, because if it doesn’t
there will be more victims among us when history repeats itself
or we ourselves will become part of the problem
Stay safe and God bless America
