Leaked Western intel dossier reveals how China deceived the world about coronavirus
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A research dossier compiled by the so-called "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance states that China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of lives around the world
The 15-page document from the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, was obtained by Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper and states that China's secrecy amounted to an "assault on international transparency."
TIMELINE OF CHINA'S POSSIBLE CORONAVIRUS COVER-UP
The dossier touches on themes that have been discussed in media reports about the outbreak of the virus, including initial denial that the virus could be transmitted between humans, the silencing or "disappearing" of doctors who tried to speak up, the destruction of evidence in laboratories and refusal to provide live samples to intenational scientists working on a vaccine.
Specifically, the file notes that China began censoring news of the virus on search engines beginning Dec. 31, deleting terms including "SARS variation, "Wuhan Seafood market" and "Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia."
Three days later, on Jan. 3, China's National Health Commission, ordered virus samples to be either moved to designated testing facilities or destroyed, while simultaneously enforcing a "no-publication order" related to the disease.
Perhaps most damningly, the dossier states that Chinese authorities denied that the virus could be spread between humans until Jan. 20, "despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December."
The dossier is similarly unsparing about the World Health Organization (WHO), stating that it toed the Chinese line about human-to-human transmission despite the fact that"officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4."
As of Friday night, the WHO's official Twitter account still featured a tweet from Jan. 14 that stated: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."
At the same time, the dossier states that throughout February, "Beijing [pressed] the US [sic], Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as [China] imposes severe restrictions at home."
At the same time, the file states: "Millions of people [left] Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing lock[ed] down the city on January 23."
The dossier continues the litany of Chinese defensiveness, stating: "As EU [European Union] diplomats prepare a report on the pandemic, [China] successfully presses Brussels to strike language on [China] disinformation."
Similarly, "As Australia calls for an independent inquiry into the pandemic, [China] threatens to cut off trade with Australia. [China] has likewise responded furiously to US [sic] calls for transparency."
WHO HAUNTED BY JANUARY TWEET SAYING CHINA FOUND NO HUMAN TRANSMISSION OF CORONAVIRUS
The Telegraph report does present one point of divergence between the allied governments, with Australia believing the virus most likely originated in the Wuhan wet market and putting the chances it accidentally leaked from a lab at "5 percent."
By contrast, Fox News reported April 15 that U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly confident that coronavirus likely originated in a Wuhan lab as a consequence of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States
President Trump said Thursday that he's seen evidence suggesting the virus came from a lab after Fox News and others asked if he knew of anything that gave him confidence that the outbreak originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
"Yes, I have," he replied, "And, I think that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they're like the public relations agency for China."
Multiple sources previously told Fox News that it is believed standards in Wuhan were disregarded before the virus leaked, prompting Beijing to initiate a cover-up. Sources also claimed the WHO was complicit from the beginning in helping China cover its tracks.
The WHO and China have denied any wrongdoing.
The Telegraph also reported that key figures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology previously worked or trained in Australian government labs where they conducted research on pathogens in live bats as part of an ongoing partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to the dossier, the team's work at the Wuhan lab involved discovering samples of coronavirus within a cave in Yunnan province and synthesizing a bat-derived coronavirus that could not be cured.
Fox News' Bret Baier and Louis Casiano contributed to this report
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China is still refusing to allow WHO to participate in the investigation into the origins of the virus.
Look at all the deaths and economic destruction this virus has caused. I hope the global community comes down HARD on china. What they did was inexcusable.
I am hoping for a silver lining in this chaos. I hope American companies stop manufacturing in china. Bring it back. We certainly cannot count on them for critical products.
Read the first sentence of what you posted.
But yet you think Trump should have put a halt to the virus, somehow developed tests for something never seen before, tested every American, and magically produced tens of thousands of ventilators and millions of masks, all in a matter of less than 4 weeks.
BTW...the last two should have been replenished by the one we are not allowed to mention on here....but he failed to do.
Info coming out out China, most legit in the world!!!!!!
And most reliable too. /s
I'm sure if the polls were to start indicating that Trump's days are done, that the next story will be that China created the virus in a Wuhan lab for the purpose of spreading it around the world in order to destroy the American economy and take over as the World's number one economy, so it deliberately leaked the virus and made sure that travellers from Wuhan would carry it to all 4 corners of the world. What I don't understand, though, is why they would do that when it would infect and kill so many of China's own people and so negatively affect China's economy, and was eventually going to be found out whereas blame would be pointed at China, and proceedings taken to destroy China's economy. Please educate me as to why they would do that.
CAVEAT: Contrary to the belief of many on this site, this is NOT a defence of the Chinese government, and I am not a commie, or a commie sympathizer, or a defender of Xi Jinping, but simply trying through attempts, not always successful, to determine the truth as a person who is bound neither to Trump nor Xi Jinping.
OR......the Trump supporters would spread the rumor that the Democrats paid China to invent the virus in the Wuhan lab and spread it all over the world, notifying every country of the virus and its dangers except for America, in the hopes that the outrageous number of illnesses and deaths in America in the hope that it would make Trump look bad and he would lose the election.
I have no doubts that there are some Trump supporters that are so mentally deranged in their devotion to Trump that they would have no qualms accepting and swearing by the wholesale lies Trump tells every day.
We should run a covid-19 conspiracy theory contest for Trump supporters here. So far they've been quite inventive.
It would likely be very interesting.
why make it so complicated? this issue is actually very simple.
It is the lie that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started telling it
Not knowing what it was
Now they're still telling it
And that is just because
It is the lie that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started telling it
Not knowing what it was
Now they're still telling it
And that is just because
It is the lie that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Some people started telling it
Not knowing what it was
Now they're still telling it
And that is just because
It is the lie that never ends
(Continue repeating indefinitely)
never ending? no.
the "new story is how the world is going to bankrupt china..
LOL. Only in your dreams.....the American consumers won't let it happen.
Time will tell. I'm not so ignorant as to make unfounded claims for the future and threats that may well never be fruitful.
this aint just about american consumers.... LOL
the world is bailing on china
“People have been talking about leaving China for many years now,” Bossche told Forbes. “What we are seeing now is that companies are taking a hard look at it… Many will see that they must diversify away from China.”
Now that coronavirus has further incentivized companies to stop buying from China, the Associated Press reports a drop of 17 percent of US imports of manufacturing goods from China.
just the beginning... and the long term trend is not in chinas favor my friend.
countries bringing manufacturing home will revive our economies and further crush chinas.
it is predictable.
Newsflash - Fauchi says, "Covid-19 Not Lab Created".
Here’s another newsflash, in late January Fauci said covid-19 was nothing for the US to worry about.
in late February Fauci said Americans should not change their habits because of covid-19.