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I watch CNN, I watch Fox, I watch CBS,
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and in this case, there's a lot of things not being said
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It almost certainly is a recombination event that,
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that was a laboratory driven.
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This is just the essential nature of Chinese communism.
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Chinese communism is evil.
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Every person that it harms
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is directly attributable to the Chinese Communist Party.
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I began looking into the origin of the now widely known coronavirus
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in early February with it's timing amid the Hong Kong protest,
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the Taiwan elections and the US-China trade deal.
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My name is Joshua Philipp.
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I'm an Investigative Reporter
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at The Epoch Times in New York,
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writing about the Chinese Communist Party's programs
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of espionage and unconventional warfare for well over a decade.
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Videos and messages from Chinese citizens
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leaking through the censorship suggested the situation
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was much worse than what the regime was reporting.
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As my research progressed,
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initial answers turned into more questions.
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I soon realized there was much more to the story
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than we were being told.
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Today the coronavirus is impacting over a hundred countries
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around the world.
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Billions of lives are at risk and from what is said
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by the Chinese Communist Party,
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this allegedly started spontaneously
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in the Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.
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Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province,
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the largest city in central China.
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Huanan Seafood Market is located in Jianghan District
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of Wuhan city and is a large comprehensive market
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that includes pork and a variety of frozen seafood,
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flavored spices as well as some game meats.
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The first thing that received public attention
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about the epidemic was an internal notice
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from the Wuhan Health Commission.
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There has been a continuous occurrence
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of pneumonia cases of unknown cause.
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The notice issued on December 30, 2019
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clearly required all medical units
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to report similar cases of unknown pneumonia.
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The notice started spreading online on December 31st, 2019
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the Wuhan Health Commission issued a public notice
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for the first time saying that some medical institutions
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found a link between the pneumonia cases
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and the Huanan Seafood Market.
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However, the notice pointed out that
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there was no evidence of
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obvious human-to-human transmission
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and no infection among medical personnel.
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On January 1st, 2020 the Huanan Seafood Market
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posted a notice of closure.
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This was followed by a thorough cleanup of the market
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which as an investigative reporter seemed rushed.
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Guan Yi, a well known Hong Kong expert
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echoed my concern that the move was like
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destroying a crime scene.
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Since then, Wuhan officials have repeatedly said
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that most cases of pneumonia in Wuhan have a history
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of exposure to the Huanan Seafood Market.
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On January 26, the Institute of Virology of China, CDC
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announced that 33 of the 585 environmental samples
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from the Huanan Seafood Market were found
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to contain the novel coronavirus nucleic acid and
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the virus was successfully isolated from
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the positive culture samples suggesting that
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the virus originated from wild animals sold at the market.
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At this point, Huanan Seafood Market
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being the source of the epidemic
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became an official conclusion.
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A few days later however,
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a report from the Journal Science
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published online challenged that story.
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The report cited a paper in The Lancet,
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one of the world's top medical journals
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and questioned whether Wuhan's novel coronavirus pneumonia
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could not have originated at the market.
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The paper titled, Clinical features of patients infected with
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2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
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was published in The Lancet on January 24.
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The first author of the paper is Huang Chaolin,
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Deputy Director of Jin Yin-tan Hospital,
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the first designated hospital for treatment of
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unknown pneumonia in Wuhan.
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Why would this come as a challenge
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to the official narrative?
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I think that this journal article is very important.
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It reveals a lot of important information.
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So for example this paper talk about the first patient onset
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was actually on December 1st
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these patients not related to Huanan Seafood Market.
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And also no epidemiological association was found
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between the first patient and subsequent patient.
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And then also on this paper it talk about on December 10th,
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there was three more onset cases
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two are which were not related to Huanan Seafood Market wholesale.
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Major discoveries there are a total of 41 patients
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were counted in this paper and 14 of them
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proved to be unrelated to the Seafood Market.
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Accounting for more than one third.
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And no one sells bats at the Seafood Market too
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and the officials from CDC didn't mention
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they find any bats in the Seafood Market too.
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Certainly, The Lancet Paper showing that
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supposed patient zero was nowhere near the market.
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Secondly, that there are no bats
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in the Seafood Market or anywhere close,
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the idea of the spread so fast through a population
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just the way it was said through the Seafood Market
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is highly unlikely and improbable.
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On January 29th,
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The Lancet republished an analysis of
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99 confirmed cases at Jin Yin-tan Hospital
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of which 50 had no history of exposure to the Seafood Market.
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According to the New England Journal,
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of the 425 cases confirmed before Jan. 22nd,
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45 cases onset before January 1st
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had no history of exposure to the Seafood Market.
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Notably, the authors of the two Lancet papers
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in the New England Journal of Medicine
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are doctors and medical experts in mainland China.
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Daniel Lucey, an epidemiologist at the University of Georgetown
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said in response to The Lancet Paper that
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if the data were accurate,
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the first case would have been infected
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by the virus already in November, 2019
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because of the incubation period
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between infection and symptoms.
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This would mean that the virus was quietly spreading
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between people in some parts of Wuhan
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before the cluster of cases with a history of
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exposure to the Huanan Seafood Market
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began on December 15.
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The first expert group from
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the National Health Commission arrived in Wuhan
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as early as December 31st, 2019.
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The expert panel established a set of diagnostic criteria
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after investigating Jin Yin-tan Hospital of Wuhan
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that stipulated a history of contact
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with Huanan Seafood Market,
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the person having a fever
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and displaying the whole genome sequence.
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All three standards have to be met to confirm a case.
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This standard was used until a second group of experts,
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including Zhong Nanshan,
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arrived in Wuhan on January 18th
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and made a revision.
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Why did the panel impose a history of
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Seafood Market exposure as a criteria
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of diagnosis knowing that at least a third of the cases
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were unrelated to the Seafood Market?
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They clearly known about 14 patients
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not related to Huanan Seafood Market at all,
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so that clearly mean there's another source of outbreak.
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I think somehow this could be a malfeasance
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or somewhat intentionally a cover-up
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some important source of infection.
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It can go a long way to covering up
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the actual source by imposing a false place
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and you're not looking at the actual victims,
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then you're only allowed to find your keys
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under the light post.
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The numbers that we're getting from China
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about new infections and deaths
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are highly suspicious.
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We know that Beijing for six weeks
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in December, in January, suppressed information
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of the epidemic and then when they officially
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acknowledged it on January 20
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they then started a campaign of suppression of information.
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We know that because the central leading group
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that was announced on January 26
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has a nine person roster
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and it's very heavy with propaganda officials.
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Indeed, the vice chairman of the group
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is the Communist Party's propaganda czar.
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It appears that the Party's main goal here is
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suppression of information, controlling the narrative.
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That's more important to them than
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actually ending the epidemic.
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I was in China when SARS happened
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and we were evacuated and it's the same.
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It was exact same thing.
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There was no transparency.
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They tried as long as they could
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to cover it up until finally,
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it was just like with the coronavirus,
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they could no longer cover it up
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and then they proceeded to act.
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But from my perception back then,
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their response to it is exactly the same.
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On January 10th, China disclosed the full
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genome sequence of the Wuhan novel coronavirus,
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and many of the world's top virologists began analyzing it.
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As early as January 7th, an academic,
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Zhang Yongzhen, from the National Institute of
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Communicable Disease Control and Prevention,
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along with the School of Public Health of Fudan University,
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submitted a joint paper to Nature.
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The paper was published on February 3rd
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and pointed out that the Wuhan coronavirus
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is closely related to CoVZC45 and CoVZXC21,
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two viruses sampled from bats in Zhoushan
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by the People's Liberation Army.
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The Wuhan coronavirus has an 89.1%
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nucleotide similarity to the CoVZC45 virus,
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and even exhibits 100% amino acid similarity
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in the NSP7 and E proteins.
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Shortly after the paper was published,
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other scientists used Blast,
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a program developed by the National Institute of Health
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and the National Center for Biotechnology Information
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to compare the viral sequence based on the data
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submitted by Chinese authorities on January 12th.
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The results matched with Zhang's findings.
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Another scientist, Lu Roujian,
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from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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and their team also published a paper
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in The Lancet on January 30.
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The paper stated that the Wuhan virus has an
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88% similarity to two bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses
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collected in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province of China.
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The earliest discovery of this bat-derived virus is
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by an expert from the Research Institute for
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Medicine of Nanjing Command.
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A paper published in 2018 states that
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scientists from this institute detected
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many SARS-like coronaviruses in bats from Zhoushan City,
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also known as bat SARS-like coronavirus, Zhoushan virus.
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In short, scientists found the Wuhan coronavirus,
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the current pandemic,
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is highly similar to a bat SARS-like coronavirus
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previously discovered by the Nanjing Military Research Institute,
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showing 100% amino acid similarity in NSP7
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and envelope protein, the E protein.
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What does this high similarity reveal?
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Hard to see a protein is 100% identical
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when the virus jumps species.
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And so that all suggesting maybe the virus
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could be generated with a reverse engineer process.
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I certainly believe that the 100% amino acid similarity says
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it can't possibly be a natural mutation.
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It almost certainly is a recombination
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event that was laboratory driven.
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On January 21st, researchers from the Institute Pasteur,
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Shanghai Chinese Academy of Sciences
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published a paper in Science China Life Sciences
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that mentioned an important phenomenon.
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The sequence of a key part of S protein of Wuhan virus
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has high homology with the SARS virus.
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What are S proteins?
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In the well-known coronavirus picture,
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they're little mushrooms attached to the surface of the virus.
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These S proteins, also known as spine proteins or spike proteins,
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are the most important tool for the coronavirus
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to invade human cells.
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If we compare the receptor ACE2 on the cell surface
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of human bodies to a lock,
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this S protein is the key which can unlock this lock
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on the cell surface and then invade into the cell
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to propagate and destroy it.
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That means virus now can infect human cell much easier
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and that's probably also one of the important reason
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the contributing to multiorgan failure
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when people have a very severe disease.
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They can spread out in the human body much faster.
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The high similarity of the S proteins from SARS1 to now SARS2,
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that's your spike protein.
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That's the lock and key.
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That's going to be what drives it right through human cells.
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And so we know that's the pathogenic spike protein
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for the original SARS.
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So now you're allowing that access to human tissues
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because the spike proteins of the natural evolutionary strains
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don't infect human cells at all.
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So that research has been going on at Wuhan
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and published since 2007.
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And clearly if that spike protein from SARS
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weren't on the new COVID19 or SARS2,
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it wouldn't be able to enter human cells.
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So again, this is again evidence that it couldn't
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go through the Wuhan Seafood Market because
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how did you get that spike protein off the original SARS
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from bats or any other way.
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It's lab derived.
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Research into the virus genome sequence
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revealed many essential data points.
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According to a February 28 report
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in the South China Morning Post,
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the Shanghai P3 Laboratory,
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which first shared the Wuhan coronavirus genome
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with the world, was ordered to close by authorities,
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impeding further research on the virus.
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Professor Zhang Yongzhen and his team,
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who published the genome sequence on January 11th,
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worked at this laboratory.
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According to a February 26 report on Caixin,
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Zhang Yongzhen's team isolated and completed
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the genome sequence of the previously unknown virus
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on January 5th.
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On the same day,
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the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
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reported the discovery to the National Health Commission
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and recommended prevention measures.
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No response was received as of January 11th.
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And it was then the team decided to publicize
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the virus genome sequence on virological.org,
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becoming the first team to do so in the world.
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Caixin also reported that the Hubei Health Committee
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already notified genome sequencing organizations
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on January 1st regarding the cessation of
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analysis of Wuhan virus samples.
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Existing virus samples must be destroyed.
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Information on the samples related to papers
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and related data are all prohibited from release.
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On January 3rd China's National Health Commission distributed
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Notification Letter 2020 No.3
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in which a similar directive was presented.
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Afterwards, the once active Chinese scientific community
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suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
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What was the Chinese Communist Party trying to hide?
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This is telling us the Chinese government
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is censoring this information.
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They do not allow the samples to be sequenced
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or do not allow the sequence to be published
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or submitted to gene bank.
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Its response to this virus is extremely troubling.
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It ignored it for six weeks.
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It allowed it to spread around China.
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It tried to get other countries to not protect themselves.
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This is dangerous, irresponsible behavior
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and it's endangered not only the Chinese people,
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but people around the world.
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There is no other way of looking at it,
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they are responsible for the continuation of this coronavirus
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and every time it comes back,
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because it will come back
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because it's going to be with us now permanently.
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It will come back and every person that it kills,
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every person it harms is directly attributable to
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the Chinese Communist Party.
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Through investigating the genome sequence,
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I found it significant that
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the S protein of the Wuhan coronavirus was critical
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in its cross-species ability to infect humans.
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While I was searching for related studies online,
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one Chinese virologist in particular caught my attention.
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She spent many years researching bats and coronaviruses.
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She was the first to locate the key to
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how coronaviruses can overcome cross species barriers,
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in order to directly infect human bodies,
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and she was the first to discover that
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the SARS virus was the result of a restructuring of
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multiple SARS like coronaviruses found in bats.
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Her name is Shi Zhengli,
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and she may be an important link to the origin of the virus.
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Wikipedia describes Shi Zhengli as a
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Chinese virologist and researcher,
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at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
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which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Further investigation shows that Shi Zhengli,
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has been a figure of controversy
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since the Wuhan virus outbreak.
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This is due to a paper she published in 2015,
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discussing her own research into synthetic viruses.
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Caixin, a media company with ties
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to the Chinese Communist Party,
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interviewed Shi Zhengli,
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in an attempt to refute these rumors.
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Dr. Zhengli Shi is one of the top experts in China,
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studying about coronavirus, in Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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She has so many publications from
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collecting identify bat coronavirus from bat caves.
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Her lab had these capacities
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and very sophisticated capacity to generate mutations
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to make it best for human expression as well.
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Delving further into related information,
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I discovered that Shi Zhengli published not one,
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but four papers in total.
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Each of which contains important information.
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Since the SARS outbreak in 2003,
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Shi Zhengli has been conducting research on coronaviruses.
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From 2010 onward, the focus of Shi and her team,
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was redirected to identifying the capacity for
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coronavirus transmission across species,
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specifically putting the spotlight on the S protein
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of the coronaviruses.
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In other words, her team's research in the Wuhan lab,
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has been looking into the part that
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can make coronaviruses transmittable to humans.
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In June, 2010, a team including Shi Zhengli,
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published a paper.
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It described research to understand the susceptibility of
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angiotensin converting enzyme 2 ACE-2 proteins,
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of different bat species to the S Protein of the SARS virus.
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In the experiments,
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they also modified key amino acid codons
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to mutate the bats ACE-2 to examine compatibility
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with the SARS S Protein.
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This paper demonstrated their awareness of
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the special relationship between the S Protein
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and the ACE-2 receptor.
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It also signified that Shi had unearthed the passageway
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for coronaviruses into human bodies.
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In October, 2013, Shi and her team published a paper
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in the authoritative science journal, Nature.
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They claimed a breakthrough in coronavirus research.
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What was their breakthrough?
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They successfully isolated three viruses from bats,
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one of which had a S Protein
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that integrated with human ACE-2 receptors.
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This effectively demonstrated
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the direct human infection of SARS-like viruses to humans,
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without the need of an intermediate host.
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Then in November, 2015,
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Shi and her team at the Wuhan lab
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once again published a paper.
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This time in the British journal, Nature Medicine.
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They discussed the creation of a synthetic virus,
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a self-replicating Chimeric virus.
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This virus had the SARS virus as the framework,
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with the key S protein replaced,
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by the one they had found in a bat coronavirus,
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she mentioned in her 2013 paper.
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This new virus demonstrated a powerful ability
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for cross-species infection.
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The mice infected with the synthetic virus
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revealed severe lung damage with no cure.
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This symbolized that shi's successful splicing of the SARS virus,
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was a key to open the door to the cross-species transmission.
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What is startling is that the successful experiments
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on mice were only the tip of the iceberg.
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They planned to further experiment on primates,
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although Shi Zhengli did not indicate
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any conclusion from this research.
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Her move to research on primates suggests
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this was to more closely simulate the infection of humans,
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with this new synthetic virus.
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This wasn't done without controversy,
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However, Shi's experiments quickly triggered
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widespread debates from the academic community.
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Simon Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in France,
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expressed deep concerns. He told Nature,
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If the new virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory.
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Propagation could happen anywhere.
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His statement is exactly what's happening,
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that the virus is everywhere,
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and it could not spread that fast through various countries,
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unless it's been spread via laboratories,
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via the mail, via research scientists studying that.
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Additional studies very strongly support the idea
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that this new coronavirus came from a recombination event,
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that is a cutting and pasting of two different viruses.
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So her work proves or strongly supports the hypothesis that
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it could not possibly have been generated in a natural,
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zoonotic transmission,
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but had to come from a hospital setting, the laboratory setting,
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almost certainly, the bio safety level 4 Wuhan research facility.
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However, this did not terminate Shi's research.
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On November 14, 2018, Shi Zhengli spoke at
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the School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
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at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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The topic was, Bat coronavirus and its cross species infection.
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Reports of this event have since been deleted
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from the University website.
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I discovered two more significant pieces of information
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regarding the dangers of the research
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conducted by Shi Zhengli's team.
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First, on October 16, 2014,
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the Obama administration,
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wary of the potential threats to public health
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from the Gain-of-function,
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GoF research into SARS, MERS, influenza,
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announced through the National Institute of Health,
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that it was suspending funding into similar research.
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The funding pause included Shi Zhengli's research project,
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genetic engineering of SARS-like coronavirus in bats,
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a collaborative effort with Dr Ralph Baric,
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a virologist at the University of North Carolina.
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Second, after the Wuhan outbreak,
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Indian researchers compared the S Protein sequence
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between 2019-nCoV(Wuhan coronavirus) and SARS.
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They discovered that 2019-nCoV(Wuhan coronavirus)
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had four new sequences inserted,
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all of which can be found in HIV sequences,
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through a search on GenBank.
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Shi Zhengli discredited those observations,
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although she never denied the existence
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of the four inserted sequences.
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However, scientists probing GenBank,
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found that there were only three viruses
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containing all sequences.
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The first is the HIV virus itself.
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The second is a bat coronavirus discovered by Shi,
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and the third is this Wuhan coronavirus.
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We've done this kind of work for now 40 years for me.
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There's the sequence analysis and comparison
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of the virus of the SARS2 to COVID-19,
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apparently has genes that come from other human
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and other species including some envelope, the gp41 from HIV.
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What is the HIV's gp41?
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The answer I found online
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describes gp41 as a protein of HIV
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that acts as the key to infecting human bodies,
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resulting in the functional failure of the immune system.
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If the discovery by Judy and her colleagues are established,
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it would mean that the infectious part of the Wuhan virus,
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the S Protein, incorporated the sequence of the HIV key protein.
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This made me think of
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the immunodeficiency symptoms in people infected.
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They were doing research on
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a human transmittable Coronavirus
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that was actually published in a paper.
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So this is research that they actually published.
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They were working on developing a coronavirus
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for the human host,
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which leads you to question,
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why would you be creating a coronavirus that can infect humans?
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What would be the purpose of that research?
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Is it for a weapon?
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Is it so that you can then create a vaccine that
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you are the sole recipient of the profits from?
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The Chinese have full access to our databases.
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They have full access to all that research that comes out.
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They have full access to all our universities
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that train their scientists,
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and they have full access to our scientists,
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00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:56,425
like with the recent indictment of
531
00:27:56,425 --> 00:27:58,927
the Head of the Chemistry Department at Harvard.
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00:27:58,927 --> 00:28:00,929
I mean this is the Thousand Talents Program,
533
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:05,601
tens of thousands of the world's most brightest people,
534
00:28:05,601 --> 00:28:08,270
in all of these different areas,
535
00:28:08,270 --> 00:28:10,314
that are going to China to help them with their programs.
536
00:28:10,314 --> 00:28:12,482
And all of these programs, as you know,
537
00:28:12,482 --> 00:28:13,984
have a dual use capability.
538
00:28:15,736 --> 00:28:17,988
Beijing's attacks on the United States,
539
00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:19,823
which have occurred for weeks and weeks
540
00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:21,074
are really worrying.
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00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:24,244
What it shows is that China is desperate,
542
00:28:24,244 --> 00:28:26,538
and the United States needs to defend itself,
543
00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:29,541
because China is propagating this narrative
544
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:32,961
that we spread the coronavirus to China.
545
00:28:32,961 --> 00:28:35,797
So the United States needs to just come out with the facts,
546
00:28:35,797 --> 00:28:38,800
about how China took coronavirus samples
547
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,969
from Canada and the United States,
548
00:28:40,969 --> 00:28:42,763
they sent them to Wuhan.
549
00:28:42,763 --> 00:28:45,933
We don't know exactly what went on in that lab there
550
00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:48,227
at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
551
00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:51,355
but it's time for the United States to defend itself.
552
00:28:56,568 --> 00:29:01,782
January 23rd, 2020. The Wuhan virus exploded.
553
00:29:01,782 --> 00:29:04,076
While Wuhan announced the lockdown of the city,
554
00:29:04,076 --> 00:29:06,954
Shi Zhengli and her team released a paper stating that
555
00:29:06,954 --> 00:29:12,125
the Wuhan coronavirus was of probable bat origin.
556
00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:14,962
This was published in Nature on February 3rd.
557
00:29:14,962 --> 00:29:17,047
The paper indicated that the Wuhan virus
558
00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:19,841
utilized the same key as SARS
559
00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:22,219
to gain entry into the human body.
560
00:29:22,219 --> 00:29:26,598
She also announced the 2019-nCoV genome sequence
561
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:32,187
was 96.2% consistent with a bat coronavirus
562
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:36,650
originating in Yunnan, China, called RaTG13,
563
00:29:36,650 --> 00:29:40,570
signaling a natural source of the Wuhan virus.
564
00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:45,659
However, Shi Zhengli's natural origin assertion was doubtful.
565
00:29:45,659 --> 00:29:47,828
The outbreak occurred in Wuhan,
566
00:29:47,828 --> 00:29:50,372
the same location as the P4 laboratory
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00:29:50,372 --> 00:29:55,836
where she was based and which housed highly similar viruses.
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00:29:55,836 --> 00:29:58,505
Common sense would lead the government to first inspect
569
00:29:58,505 --> 00:30:01,842
the P4 laboratory for any leakage incident
570
00:30:01,842 --> 00:30:03,885
and potential safety concerns.
571
00:30:03,885 --> 00:30:06,471
Instead, they shifted public tension
572
00:30:06,471 --> 00:30:10,600
from the P4 laboratory to the Huanan Seafood Market
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00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:16,023
that sold no bats and designated it as the origin of the disease.
574
00:30:16,023 --> 00:30:19,735
At the same time, authorities sealed off all virus samples,
575
00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:21,903
prevented international experts from
576
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:23,780
joining the investigation,
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00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:27,534
and used national television to slander doctors
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00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:30,996
such as Li Wenliang who disclosed the outbreak,
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00:30:30,996 --> 00:30:33,582
for spreading rumors.
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00:30:33,582 --> 00:30:37,252
If the Wuhan virus indeed emerged naturally,
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00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:40,213
why would the CCP need to censor relevant news
582
00:30:40,213 --> 00:30:42,591
or block investigations?
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00:30:42,591 --> 00:30:45,886
Could the Wuhan P4 laboratory have its secrets?
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00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:50,057
Virus samples and genome sequences may be the exact ingredients
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00:30:50,057 --> 00:30:51,892
we need to find our answers.
586
00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:53,894
When I first heard of the coronavirus,
587
00:30:53,894 --> 00:30:56,229
I was deeply concerned.
588
00:30:56,229 --> 00:30:59,483
Almost every disease that starts in China
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00:30:59,483 --> 00:31:01,485
begins in Guangdong province,
590
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,321
the province that surrounds Hong Kong in the south,
591
00:31:04,321 --> 00:31:07,949
but Wuhan is in the central portion of the country
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00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,535
and so this was extremely unusual.
593
00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:14,039
And the fact that it might've started close to
594
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,877
the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the P4 bio safety lab,
595
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,088
really was extremely troubling.
596
00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:23,298
It's not a conspiracy theory to think that
597
00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:25,884
the coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab.
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00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:27,344
We don't know at this point.
599
00:31:27,344 --> 00:31:31,056
And until we know, the theory about the lab origin
600
00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:33,558
is certainly something that we should consider.
601
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,313
I noticed that after the outbreak,
602
00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:42,651
the Wuhan Institute of Virology kept strangely quiet.
603
00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:44,361
Under normal circumstances,
604
00:31:44,361 --> 00:31:49,366
as the nation's highest level of Virology Research Institute,
605
00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,536
it should be the first one to actively respond
606
00:31:52,536 --> 00:31:55,455
when the entire country is working around the clock
607
00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:59,126
attempting to control a disease like this.
608
00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:02,254
One that so closely fits the type of viruses
609
00:32:02,254 --> 00:32:04,923
its scientists were researching.
610
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:10,345
In contrast, the Institute had a highly visible demonstration on CCTV
611
00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:12,806
of their efforts to detect and prevent the outbreak
612
00:32:12,806 --> 00:32:17,394
of virus in pigs of Guangdong in 2018.
613
00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:22,065
It should be noted that the Wuhan Institute displayed a series of
614
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:26,653
abnormal events since the start of 2020.
615
00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:32,742
January 2nd, an email from the Director-General
616
00:32:32,742 --> 00:32:36,413
of the Institute to all internal staff was circulated.
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00:32:36,413 --> 00:32:41,501
The subject was "Notice regarding the strict prohibition of disclosure
618
00:32:41,501 --> 00:32:46,339
of any information related to the Wuhan unknown pneumonia."
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00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:48,925
National Health Commission clearly mandates that
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00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:54,389
all detection, empirical data, results, and conclusions related to
621
00:32:54,389 --> 00:32:59,644
this outbreak cannot be published on self-media or social media,
622
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:03,815
nor disclosed to any media including state media
623
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:06,026
or collaborative organizations,
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00:33:06,026 --> 00:33:08,904
including any technical services companies.
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00:33:10,197 --> 00:33:13,241
January 21st, a new drug,
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00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:17,704
Remdesivir, provided for free by the United States to China
627
00:33:17,704 --> 00:33:23,793
for Wuhan coronavirus treatment was preemptively patented by the institute.
628
00:33:23,793 --> 00:33:30,175
February 3rd, Dr. Wu Xiaohua blew the whistle using his real name,
629
00:33:30,175 --> 00:33:34,054
that Shi Zhengli's haphazard laboratory management
630
00:33:34,054 --> 00:33:39,434
may have led the Wuhan virus to leak from the lab.
631
00:33:39,434 --> 00:33:43,772
February 4th, Chairman of Duoyi, Xu Bo,
632
00:33:43,772 --> 00:33:46,441
blew the whistle using his real name,
633
00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:50,278
that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was suspected of
634
00:33:50,278 --> 00:33:54,783
manufacturing and leaking the Wuhan virus.
635
00:33:54,783 --> 00:33:58,119
February 7th, top biochemical weapon expert of
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00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:00,789
the People's Liberation Army, Chen Wei,
637
00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:07,462
officially assumed control over Wuhan Institute of virology's P4 laboratory.
638
00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:13,760
February 14th, Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, called for the inclusion
639
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,681
of bio security into China's national security framework
640
00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:23,853
and to accelerate the introduction of a bio security law.
641
00:34:23,853 --> 00:34:28,567
February 15th, the institute refuted widely spread rumors
642
00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:33,446
on Chinese social media that a female graduate, Huang Yanling
643
00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:36,116
was patient zero and had perished.
644
00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:39,244
However, Huang's photo, CV and thesis
645
00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:42,789
were all removed from the Institute's official website,
646
00:34:42,789 --> 00:34:44,666
leaving only her name.
647
00:34:47,627 --> 00:34:52,382
February 17th, institute researcher Chen Quanjiao
648
00:34:52,382 --> 00:34:55,385
blew the whistle using her real name,
649
00:34:55,385 --> 00:34:57,721
that Director General of the institute,
650
00:34:57,721 --> 00:35:02,851
Wang Yanyi was suspected of leaking the virus.
651
00:35:04,352 --> 00:35:08,607
I graduated from the university of Virginia in 1980.
652
00:35:08,607 --> 00:35:12,777
My first job was to go to the National Cancer Institute,
653
00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:15,864
which was housed at Fort Detrick, Maryland,
654
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:19,284
the same place that houses the USAMRIID
655
00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:23,204
US Army Research Institute on Infectious Disease,
656
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:29,544
the bio safety level 4 facility equivalent of the Wuhan facility.
657
00:35:29,544 --> 00:35:34,674
And so at these facilities, it's where investigators who,
658
00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:36,593
I went in there myself,
659
00:35:36,593 --> 00:35:40,096
you can see the breakdowns in safety and it's everywhere.
660
00:35:40,096 --> 00:35:45,060
That's why I have no doubt the Chinese bio safety level 4
661
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:49,648
was just as lacking in safety, in rigor.
662
00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:51,983
You can argue that they don't care.
663
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:54,486
Suspected of leaking the virus,
664
00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:59,407
military biochemical weapons expert assumes control,
665
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:01,534
bio security law…….
666
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:04,913
Now when these sensitive keywords are connected together,
667
00:36:04,913 --> 00:36:08,958
it tells me that the P4 laboratory is not an ordinary
668
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:11,836
academic research institute.
669
00:36:11,836 --> 00:36:16,383
I decided to start from the beginning of the Wuhan P4 lab.
670
00:36:16,383 --> 00:36:20,512
On January 23rd, the day Wuhan was locked down,
671
00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:24,557
French website challenges.fr published an article
672
00:36:24,557 --> 00:36:27,310
that revealed many details of the collaboration between
673
00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:32,023
France and China to establish the P4 laboratory in Wuhan.
674
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:35,193
In 2003, after the SARS outbreak in China,
675
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:38,613
the Chinese Academy of Sciences requested assistance
676
00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:40,281
from the French government to build
677
00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:44,202
the Virology Research Center of the highest level.
678
00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:48,123
With the support of then French Prime Minister, Raffarin,
679
00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:50,125
the two countries signed a contract to
680
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:52,752
jointly construct the P4 laboratory,
681
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:55,171
under a wave of contention.
682
00:36:55,171 --> 00:36:59,259
According to the contract, French architect RTV in Lyon
683
00:36:59,259 --> 00:37:02,679
was responsible for the engineering of the laboratory.
684
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:05,098
However, Chinese authorities switched the work
685
00:37:05,098 --> 00:37:09,519
to a local Wuhan architect IPPR.
686
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:11,020
Based on research conducted
687
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:14,107
by the General Directorate of External Security.
688
00:37:14,107 --> 00:37:19,612
IPPR had close ties to subsidies of the Chinese military,
689
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:23,658
some of which were already targets of concern by the American CIA.
690
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:25,994
Within the 12 subsidiary departments,
691
00:37:25,994 --> 00:37:30,582
there was even a specific Military Management Office.
692
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,667
The French delayed repeatedly,
693
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:34,544
given security concerns.
694
00:37:34,544 --> 00:37:38,214
It wasn't until 2017 before the Wuhan P4 laboratory
695
00:37:38,214 --> 00:37:42,093
was operational and French security continued to suspect that
696
00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:47,766
the Chinese regime was conducting biochemical weapons experiments.
697
00:37:47,766 --> 00:37:53,104
Who is the real boss of the P4 laboratory?
698
00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:56,399
The Wuhan P4 laboratory was a subsidiary of
699
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:59,027
the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
700
00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:02,447
which is managed by China Academy of Sciences.
701
00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:05,950
The director of the laboratory was Yuan Zhiming
702
00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:07,035
who was also the head of
703
00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:10,079
Chinese Academy of Sciences' Wuhan chapter.
704
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:14,334
Design and funding for construction were the responsibilities
705
00:38:14,334 --> 00:38:17,504
of the ex-Vice Presidents of the Academy,
706
00:38:17,504 --> 00:38:22,342
Jiang Mianheng from 1999 to 2011
707
00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:26,346
and Chen Zhu from 2000 to 2007.
708
00:38:26,346 --> 00:38:32,018
Jiang Mianheng was the eldest son of ex-CCP leader, Jiang Zemin.
709
00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:33,895
After Jiang Zemin ascended to power
710
00:38:33,895 --> 00:38:36,189
after the Tiananmen Square massacre,
711
00:38:36,189 --> 00:38:39,025
his son entered the Academy and led the Institute
712
00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:42,529
of High Technologies Research and Development.
713
00:38:42,529 --> 00:38:47,867
Jiang Mianheng created the Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences
714
00:38:47,867 --> 00:38:50,787
and together with China Academy of Sciences,
715
00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:52,997
Shanghai colleges and universities,
716
00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:56,167
Shanghai hospitals, military hospitals,
717
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:58,044
and research institutions,
718
00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:03,967
formed a profit group of life sciences organizations.
719
00:39:03,967 --> 00:39:07,679
They controlled China's major life sciences research projects
720
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,682
and allocation of massive funding.
721
00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:14,185
Jiang Zhicheng, son of Jiang Mianheng,
722
00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:18,064
is the controlling shareholder of WuXi AppTech,
723
00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:23,653
which in turn is controlling Fosun Pharmaceutical,
724
00:39:23,653 --> 00:39:26,781
China's agent for Remdesivir.
725
00:39:26,781 --> 00:39:30,702
Effectively, Jiang Zhicheng is the kingpin
726
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:34,455
behind the specific medicine for the outbreak.
727
00:39:34,455 --> 00:39:37,667
Meanwhile, Chen Zhu is the current president
728
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:40,169
of the Red Cross Society of China,
729
00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:44,674
which had faced numerous scandals since the outbreak.
730
00:39:44,674 --> 00:39:48,094
In 1999, while Jiang Zemin was in power,
731
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:50,471
the People's Liberation Army published a book,
732
00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:55,268
Unrestricted Warfare, in which strategies for a weaker nation
733
00:39:55,268 --> 00:39:58,104
to combat a stronger nation are discussed
734
00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:01,107
in the context of modern warfare.
735
00:40:01,107 --> 00:40:03,818
One of the authors, Qiao Liang wrote,
736
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:06,112
after the first Taiwan Strait crisis,
737
00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:09,365
we realized that if the Chinese and American military
738
00:40:09,365 --> 00:40:13,119
fought head on, we are at a disadvantage.
739
00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,955
Therefore, we need a new strategy
740
00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:18,875
to help our military tilt the balance of power.
741
00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:22,837
This new strategy is called unrestricted warfare,
742
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:25,465
a variety of means beyond all limits,
743
00:40:25,465 --> 00:40:27,675
without any restrictions.
744
00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,594
It could be military related,
745
00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:34,265
including guerrilla warfare, terrorism, biochemical warfare,
746
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:38,186
or it could be non-military related such as drug trafficking,
747
00:40:38,186 --> 00:40:41,022
poisoning, environmental destruction and
748
00:40:41,022 --> 00:40:44,525
computer virus dissemination.
749
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:46,903
Israeli expert in biological warfare
750
00:40:46,903 --> 00:40:48,696
and former intelligence officer,
751
00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:51,783
Dany Shoham published a paper in 2015
752
00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,410
in India's Journal of Defense Studies.
753
00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:57,830
He pointed out that China will not miss, skip, or abandon
754
00:40:57,830 --> 00:41:00,208
any highly advanced technology,
755
00:41:00,208 --> 00:41:03,211
especially military related technology.
756
00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:05,922
The article noted that China had 12 facilities
757
00:41:05,922 --> 00:41:08,925
related to the Ministry of National Defense and
758
00:41:08,925 --> 00:41:12,679
30 subsidiary facilities of the PLA ,
759
00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:16,099
participating in the research, development, manufacturing,
760
00:41:16,099 --> 00:41:20,770
testing or storage of biological weapons.
761
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:24,941
Dr. Francis Boyle, a Harvard PhD, famous for drafting
762
00:41:24,941 --> 00:41:28,319
the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989,
763
00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:33,491
clearly expressed, the novel coronavirus we're seeing here
764
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:37,912
is an offensive biological warfare weapon.
765
00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:40,039
The Federation of American Scientists
766
00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:43,960
indicated similar concerns in an evaluation report.
767
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,379
The organization believed that the CCP
768
00:41:46,379 --> 00:41:50,383
possessed advanced chemical warfare projects,
769
00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:53,011
including research, development, manufacturing,
770
00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:54,762
and weaponizing capabilities.
771
00:41:54,762 --> 00:42:00,852
The CCP is usually known to have a proactive biological warfare portfolio,
772
00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:06,357
including state funded and sponsored research activities.
773
00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:07,775
I believe they have them.
774
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:09,694
I believe they're developing them.
775
00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:13,656
I think they want to be the most advanced nation on earth
776
00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:15,324
when it comes to biological weapons.
777
00:42:15,324 --> 00:42:18,494
The same as I believe that they do forced organ harvesting.
778
00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:20,747
The way the same as I believe that
779
00:42:20,747 --> 00:42:24,000
they have concentration camps for Ugyhurs.
780
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:28,796
The way I believe that they have systematically killed millions of Falun Gong.
781
00:42:28,796 --> 00:42:31,299
It is the same thing, this regime.
782
00:42:31,299 --> 00:42:32,633
You can't count on it.
783
00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:36,262
So Wuhan, as an area, I think is critical by the fact that
784
00:42:36,262 --> 00:42:39,891
there's a lot of concern about what China's ambitions are
785
00:42:39,891 --> 00:42:42,560
regarding long term global domination.
786
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:43,728
I can say that.
787
00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:47,023
Their military doctrines indicated that they intend to be
788
00:42:47,023 --> 00:42:50,651
the dominant political and military force to Pacific Rim.
789
00:42:50,651 --> 00:42:53,488
I've talked to senior members of the Trump administration
790
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:56,574
who had conversations with the senior Chinese generals
791
00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,409
and that's what they basically said.
792
00:42:58,409 --> 00:42:59,702
It's in their doctrine too.
793
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:02,997
So we have to examine this new clue.
794
00:43:02,997 --> 00:43:06,626
So this is one piece of the... Wuhan biological warfare,
795
00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:10,296
does this mean something to these other things we're already seeing?
796
00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:12,465
Because the Chinese have already kind of stated
797
00:43:12,465 --> 00:43:13,591
this is their objective.
798
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,510
So I think we have to analyze it through that lens.
799
00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:19,222
What does this mean to the larger political narrative of
800
00:43:19,222 --> 00:43:21,808
what China wants to do to dominate the region
801
00:43:21,808 --> 00:43:22,892
and potentially the world?
802
00:43:22,892 --> 00:43:25,853
We don't have to speculate about being at war.
803
00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:29,690
Last May, the communist party, through People's Daily,
804
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:34,695
carried a piece which said that there was a "people's war"
805
00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:36,489
against the United States.
806
00:43:36,489 --> 00:43:38,157
They've declared war on us.
807
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:39,575
We have to respond.
808
00:43:39,575 --> 00:43:41,869
There is a war. China's told us there's one.
809
00:43:51,796 --> 00:43:55,133
At present the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic
810
00:43:55,133 --> 00:43:58,219
has spread to about 180 countries
811
00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:00,596
with no signs of slowing down.
812
00:44:00,596 --> 00:44:04,892
The United States announced a state of national emergency.
813
00:44:04,892 --> 00:44:07,270
Europe became the new center of the outbreak.
814
00:44:07,270 --> 00:44:09,814
The world's largest art museum, the Louvre,
815
00:44:09,814 --> 00:44:12,441
and the Eiffel Tower closed to the public.
816
00:44:12,441 --> 00:44:16,237
Tragic scenes, previously only found in Hollywood films,
817
00:44:16,237 --> 00:44:19,448
are now playing out live on the world stage.
818
00:44:19,448 --> 00:44:21,409
And given how closely it seemed to
819
00:44:21,409 --> 00:44:23,661
align with the Chinese regime's narratives,
820
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:27,498
I can't help but question the role the WHO had
821
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:29,709
in this catastrophic pandemic.
822
00:44:29,709 --> 00:44:34,714
Well, I think all you have to do is look at the photo of
823
00:44:34,714 --> 00:44:37,967
Tedros and Xi shaking hands.
824
00:44:37,967 --> 00:44:41,637
Xi standing there, Tedros going up to there,
825
00:44:41,637 --> 00:44:46,100
and it really is indicative of how China controls
826
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,394
many of these international institutions.
827
00:44:48,394 --> 00:44:53,274
You can see that the WHO is essentially following
828
00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:55,401
Chinese communist party's guidelines.
829
00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:58,863
You can see that the UN Human Rights Council
830
00:44:58,863 --> 00:45:01,199
is similarly following what China does.
831
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:04,493
From the very beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak,
832
00:45:04,493 --> 00:45:06,412
the communist party has done its best
833
00:45:06,412 --> 00:45:08,706
to prevent the CDC and others
834
00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:12,376
from studying the origin of this disease.
835
00:45:12,376 --> 00:45:13,961
We don't know what's there,
836
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:17,673
but the fact that the communist party is covering this up,
837
00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:19,634
it should trouble us deeply.
838
00:45:19,634 --> 00:45:22,720
Then you see the World Health Organization take over YouTube
839
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,182
and what's amazing is now at the bottom of every YouTube video,
840
00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:29,518
even from Chris Martenson with his daily updates,
841
00:45:29,518 --> 00:45:30,978
I think it's just reading facts.
842
00:45:30,978 --> 00:45:34,565
Now it's the World Health Organization is a forced link
843
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:35,358
to go to the site.
844
00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,235
So for any person who doesn't know
845
00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:38,653
who the World Health Organization is,
846
00:45:38,653 --> 00:45:40,863
they go there to get the propaganda,
847
00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:43,115
not the facts, not the truth.
848
00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:43,991
They get the propaganda.
849
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:47,370
They get the talking points from the World Health Organization.
850
00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:48,913
And that is also very...
851
00:45:48,913 --> 00:45:51,916
It's a shame that American corporations,
852
00:45:51,916 --> 00:45:55,044
especially social media like Google,
853
00:45:55,044 --> 00:45:56,837
like Facebook and Twitter,
854
00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:59,256
they're trying to sensor, or ban, or shadow ban,
855
00:45:59,257 --> 00:46:01,717
or manipulate algorithms,
856
00:46:01,717 --> 00:46:02,718
so on and so forth
857
00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:05,179
to prevent an actual honest conversation.
858
00:46:05,179 --> 00:46:07,598
The best way this is going to be answered,
859
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:09,558
all this, we want the truth.
860
00:46:09,558 --> 00:46:14,105
The biggest issue I've learned over my 40 year career
861
00:46:14,105 --> 00:46:16,440
is it's not really fighting the viruses
862
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,818
and learning how to treat the viruses.
863
00:46:18,818 --> 00:46:23,739
It's fighting a system that is determined to cover up
864
00:46:23,739 --> 00:46:28,286
and persecute anyone who reveals the truth behind.
865
00:46:28,286 --> 00:46:32,290
Today, the World Bank, many of the international institutions
866
00:46:32,290 --> 00:46:35,584
have essentially adopted a posture whereby
867
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:37,795
if the Chinese communist party tells them to do it,
868
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:38,921
they're going to do it.
869
00:46:38,921 --> 00:46:41,716
I'm not surprised at all by what the WHO says
870
00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:44,635
I'm not surprised at all by IKO,
871
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:47,930
which basically has been blocking people from
872
00:46:47,930 --> 00:46:49,515
that tweet about Taiwan.
873
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,559
I mean the whole system,
874
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:53,227
and this is why, by the way,
875
00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:57,106
the national security strategy that came out in December of 2017
876
00:46:57,106 --> 00:47:00,568
says what it says, which is we need to protect our societies,
877
00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:03,237
not just the United States, but all democracies.
878
00:47:03,237 --> 00:47:04,697
We need to rebuild them,
879
00:47:04,697 --> 00:47:07,241
not invest Chinese communist party regime
880
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:10,453
and the belt and road initiative and made in China 2025
881
00:47:10,453 --> 00:47:13,414
and we need to inspire people again to believe in democracy.
882
00:47:13,414 --> 00:47:16,375
Every country has diseases, but in China
883
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:20,254
they become national emergencies and global emergencies
884
00:47:20,254 --> 00:47:24,675
because the real disease here is communism.
885
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:28,220
A sprawling and aggressive disinformation campaign
886
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:31,640
unleashed globally by the Chinese communist party.
887
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,227
The propaganda push, which has escalated in recent weeks,
888
00:47:35,227 --> 00:47:38,939
aims primarily to deflect blame over the Chinese regime's
889
00:47:38,939 --> 00:47:42,109
botched handling of the Wuhan Coronavirus,
890
00:47:42,109 --> 00:47:45,988
sow discord internationally, and portray the image that
891
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:49,241
the regime has contained the outbreak.
892
00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:51,952
During the investigative interview process,
893
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:54,121
Well-known scientists who once suggested
894
00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:56,248
a laboratory origin of the virus
895
00:47:56,248 --> 00:47:59,210
declined to be interviewed one after another.
896
00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:02,880
Some avoided the topic of virus origin completely.
897
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,716
Some had already composed scientific arguments
898
00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:08,260
but abruptly retracted their papers.
899
00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:12,681
I felt as if a giant net of censorship was cast by the CCP
900
00:48:12,681 --> 00:48:15,601
over virologists around the world.
901
00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:18,396
Silence at this time could have consequences
902
00:48:18,396 --> 00:48:21,982
for the health and lives of billions of people.
903
00:48:21,982 --> 00:48:25,152
I watch CNN, I watch Fox, I watch CBS
904
00:48:25,152 --> 00:48:27,446
and I try to make my own assessment
905
00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:29,657
and a lot of the time you could figure out
906
00:48:29,657 --> 00:48:31,951
what's really going on by what they're not saying.
907
00:48:31,951 --> 00:48:34,703
And in this case, there's a lot of things not being said.
908
00:48:34,703 --> 00:48:37,873
Bottom line, they want to make money from China.
909
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:41,335
They fear the Chinese repercussions if they air this stuff.
910
00:48:41,335 --> 00:48:42,711
It's just gives you an indication of
911
00:48:42,711 --> 00:48:45,548
how powerful the Chinese Communist Party is.
912
00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:49,218
Chinese Communist Party suppressing speech in the West
913
00:48:49,218 --> 00:48:51,762
because these companies make money from China
914
00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:53,305
and they're afraid that they're not going to make,
915
00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:55,266
that the Chinese Communist Party is going to punish them
916
00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:57,518
if they essentially publish this stuff or,
917
00:48:57,518 --> 00:48:59,895
or allow it to be aired. There is no other reason.
918
00:48:59,895 --> 00:49:03,232
I think we have to recognize your audience who haven't seen it.
919
00:49:03,232 --> 00:49:05,067
I highly recommend Chernobyl
920
00:49:05,067 --> 00:49:09,280
because the same basic governance model that screwed up Chernobyl,
921
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,117
I would argue is now in charge of the response of the Coronavirus.
922
00:49:13,117 --> 00:49:16,162
So whatever you saw go wrong in Chernobyl,
923
00:49:16,162 --> 00:49:17,788
you could still see that potential here.
924
00:49:17,788 --> 00:49:19,415
I'm not saying it's going to be that bad.
925
00:49:19,415 --> 00:49:23,627
I'm just saying that the party, the central party is the thing
926
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:25,921
which they want to protect, their power
927
00:49:25,921 --> 00:49:31,760
and people and nation issues are secondary to the continuation of power.
928
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:36,724
Communist party is maligned and it is grossly irresponsible.
929
00:49:36,724 --> 00:49:39,894
It has pressured governments to keep their borders open
930
00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:42,521
and it had to know that would result in
931
00:49:42,521 --> 00:49:46,484
the fast spread of Coronavirus to other countries.
932
00:49:46,484 --> 00:49:49,570
This is the worst sort of behavior
933
00:49:49,570 --> 00:49:51,864
and the world's got to understand
934
00:49:51,864 --> 00:49:54,033
that there will not be peace.
935
00:49:54,033 --> 00:49:56,827
There will not be good order and stability in the world
936
00:49:56,827 --> 00:49:58,996
as long as the communist party rules China.
937
00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:01,248
The Wall Street Journal writes a piece as
938
00:50:01,248 --> 00:50:02,708
China is a sick man of Asia.
939
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:05,336
It needs to be corrected.
940
00:50:05,336 --> 00:50:07,213
It's not China the sick man of Asia.
941
00:50:07,213 --> 00:50:11,300
It is the Chinese Communist party, that's the sick man of Asia.
942
00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:15,304
The communist party has policies that people are poor
943
00:50:15,304 --> 00:50:19,099
and it's not just it’s reaction to the Coronavirus.
944
00:50:19,099 --> 00:50:21,685
We see this with the suppression of rights,
945
00:50:21,685 --> 00:50:25,481
also with holding perhaps a million people,
946
00:50:25,481 --> 00:50:29,944
maybe even three million people in concentration camps.
947
00:50:29,944 --> 00:50:34,740
So this is just the essential nature of Chinese communism.
948
00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:36,992
Chinese communism is evil.
949
00:50:36,992 --> 00:50:39,745
While China pretends to be a responsible member
950
00:50:39,745 --> 00:50:42,540
of the international community, in reality,
951
00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:46,669
they are doing much to undermine the rule of law and human rights.
952
00:50:46,669 --> 00:50:47,836
We, the Epoch Times,
953
00:50:47,836 --> 00:50:54,468
refer to the Wuhan Coronavirus or Covid-19 as the CCP virus,
954
00:50:54,468 --> 00:50:57,972
because the Chinese Communist Party’s cover up and mishandling,
955
00:50:57,972 --> 00:51:02,810
allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic.
956
00:51:06,146 --> 00:51:09,441
On March 24, Texas lawyer, Larry Klayman,
957
00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:11,902
filed a complaint in the Texas federal court
958
00:51:11,902 --> 00:51:16,407
seeking at least $20 trillion USD from the Chinese government.
959
00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,122
Klayman said in a statement quotes,
960
00:51:23,122 --> 00:51:25,124
The Chinese people are a good people
961
00:51:25,124 --> 00:51:27,042
but their government is not
962
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:29,461
and it must be made to pay dearly.
963
00:51:32,798 --> 00:51:37,011
On April 4, the British think tank, Henry Jackson Society
964
00:51:37,011 --> 00:51:38,762
advocated for compensation of
965
00:51:38,762 --> 00:51:43,767
351 billion pounds from the CCP to the UK,
966
00:51:47,563 --> 00:51:49,023
and the government should pursue it
967
00:51:49,023 --> 00:51:50,566
through the international courts.
968
00:51:50,566 --> 00:51:52,818
The same report called for a total
969
00:51:52,818 --> 00:51:57,823
compensation of 3.2 trillion pounds to the G7
970
00:51:57,823 --> 00:52:01,160
for the damages caused by the cover-up of the outbreak.
971
00:52:03,621 --> 00:52:06,915
On the same day, the All India Bar Association
972
00:52:06,915 --> 00:52:10,502
filed a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council
973
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,092
seeking an unspecified amount as reparations from China
974
00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:20,095
over the global spread of coronavirus.
975
00:52:20,971 --> 00:52:25,642
Evidently, the CCP violated the International Health Regulations.
976
00:52:25,643 --> 00:52:28,187
The United States and the international community
977
00:52:28,187 --> 00:52:30,522
must regain its senses and take action
978
00:52:32,733 --> 00:52:35,402
reveal the truth through investigations,
979
00:52:35,402 --> 00:52:38,197
initiate sanctions against the CCP
980
00:52:38,197 --> 00:52:40,616
and seek massive restitution
981
00:52:40,616 --> 00:52:43,202
for the worldwide public health emergency
982
00:52:43,202 --> 00:52:46,747
resulting in tremendous health and economic loss.
983
00:52:46,747 --> 00:52:50,209
As the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong are insisting
984
00:52:50,209 --> 00:52:54,129
only by trying to stay away from CCP’s invasion,
985
00:52:54,129 --> 00:52:57,591
can we protect ourselves in this global disaster.
986
00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:01,387
Let's start protecting ourselves.
987
00:53:01,387 --> 00:53:03,472
Let's start rebuilding our country.
988
00:53:03,472 --> 00:53:05,307
Let's start investing in our people.
989
00:53:05,307 --> 00:53:08,769
Let's start inspiring people to love democracy
990
00:53:08,769 --> 00:53:11,522
and transparency and open markets,
991
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:12,815
not what the Chinese have,
992
00:53:12,815 --> 00:53:14,108
which is essentially,
993
00:53:14,108 --> 00:53:15,401
if you read document number nine,
994
00:53:15,401 --> 00:53:17,111
counter to every single one of those things.
995
00:53:17,111 --> 00:53:18,946
So I mean this gives us a real opportunity to
996
00:53:18,946 --> 00:53:21,907
kind of reevaluate the world we want to live in
997
00:53:21,907 --> 00:53:24,868
and fight for the right side of that world.
998
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:28,122
I want them to see the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party
999
00:53:28,122 --> 00:53:30,082
because when they do, they're going to wake up
1000
00:53:30,082 --> 00:53:31,709
And when that happens,
1001
00:53:31,709 --> 00:53:33,711
democracies will begin to flourish again.
1002
00:53:33,711 --> 00:53:35,629
And when that happens,
1003
00:53:35,629 --> 00:53:36,880
perhaps,
1004
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,425
just perhaps the people of China will have this chance.
1005
00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:48,100
This virus must have a message for all of us as people of this earth.
1006
00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:51,103
We need to take a break from our busy schedules
1007
00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:54,064
and seriously consider the repercussions of
1008
00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:57,818
our ever-expanding scientific research and development.
1009
00:53:57,818 --> 00:53:59,653
Did we go too far?
1010
00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:04,158
Do our desires and ambitions go against the laws of nature
1011
00:54:04,158 --> 00:54:08,662
and pull us further from the direction given by heaven?
1012
00:54:08,662 --> 00:54:10,164
Maybe when this virus lifts,
1013
00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:13,083
we can again find our traditional values,
1014
00:54:13,083 --> 00:54:15,711
rediscover kindness and virtue,
1015
00:54:15,711 --> 00:54:17,337
family and community.
1016
00:54:18,213 --> 00:54:22,301
I believe that viruses can't survive where hearts have compassion.
