Edited by John R. Houk
Posted April 18, 2020
There is a world-wide pandemic. There are wicked culprits
behind the spread of this pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people
globally not to mention right here in the USA.
WHO (no pun intended) ARE THE WICKED CULPRITS?
The ChiCom government (i.e. Mainland Communist China), the
World Health Organization (aka W.H.O.) and by extension the United Nations are
the culprits.
Even though not a single government or so-called reputable
media organization will go out on the limb and state the obvious; viz., China
was working on a bioweapon and screwed up. The more China is being exposed in a
massive coverup with the complicity of UN affiliate organizations, especially
the now apparent documentation at the least of the Coronavirus/COVID-19
origination was a biolab and NOT a Chinese Wet Market, the more I am
convinced (though can’t prove) a bioweapon mishap occurred in a biolab.
With that personal opinion in mind, this post contains a
series of articles and videos I think you might at least cause yourself wonder about
a Chinese bioweapon mishap.
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Sources believe coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan
lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US
April 16, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: There is increasing confidence that
the COVID-19 outbreak
likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as
part 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, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early
actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the "costliest government cover-up of all
time," one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of
the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there –
was bat-to-human and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory,
then went into the population in Wuhan.
The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and
open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has
requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized -- as is often
the case with intelligence -- that it’s not definitive and should not be
characterized as such. Some inside the administration and the intelligence and
epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is
continuing.
What all of the sources agree about is the extensive cover-up
of data and information about COVID-19 orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Asked by Fox News' John Roberts about the reporting,
President Trump remarked at Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing, "More
and more we're hearing the story...we are doing a very thorough examination of
this horrible situation."
Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and
early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a
possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox
News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame
from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the
U.S. and Italy.
U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018
about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on
information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from
bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
In this Tuesday, March 10,
2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi
Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan
Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)
Responding to the report, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday afternoon: "It should be no
surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that and we've had a lot
of intelligence take a hard look at that. I would just say at this point, it's
inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we
don't know for certain."
“Even today, I see them withholding information and I think
we need to do more to continue to press them to share,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told
“America’s Newsroom"
on Wednesday, referring to China. Esper added that he wouldn't speak to
"intelligence reporting," but that "most people believe it began
naturally — it was organic, if you will. I think in due course, once we
get through the pandemic we're in right now, there'll be time to look back and
really ascertain what happened and make sure we have a better understanding so
we can prevent this in the future."
Sources point to the structure of the virus, in saying the
genome mapping specifically shows it was not genetically altered.
Speaking to "The Story" Wednesday
evening, Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo remarked: "What we do know is we know that this
virus originated in Wuhan, China. We know there is the Wuhan Institute of
Virology just a handful of miles away from where the wet market
was. There is still lots to learn. You should know that the United States
government is working diligently to figure it out."
Concerning the State Department cables warning about the
Wuhan laboratory, Pompeo said the installation "contained highly
contagious materials — we knew that, we knew that they were
working on this program, many countries have programs like this. In
countries that are open and transparent, they have the ability to control them
and keep them safe, and they allow outside observers in to make sure all
the processes and procedures are right. I only wish that that had happened in
this place."
On Thursday, China's foreign
ministry pushed back on the suspicion that the virus escaped from the
facility, by citing statements from the World Health Organization that
there is no evidence the coronavirus came from a
laboratory.
Americans were originally helping train the Chinese in a
program called PREVENT well before the Chinese started working on this
virus. The French government helped the Chinese set up the Wuhan lab.
China "100 percent" suppressed data and changed
data, the sources tell Fox News. Samples were destroyed, contaminated
areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled.
There were doctors and journalists who were
"disappeared" warning of the spread of the virus and
its contagious nature and human to human transmission. China moved
quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but
did not stop international flights from Wuhan.
Additionally, the sources tell Fox News the World
Health Organization (WHO) was complicit from the beginning in helping China
cover its tracks.
Commuters wear face masks
to protect against the spread of new coronavirus as they walk through a subway
station in Beijing, Thursday, April 9, 2020. China's National Health Commission
on Thursday reported dozens of new COVID-19 cases, including most of which it
says are imported infections in recent arrivals from abroad and two
"native" cases in the southern province of Guangdong. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump announced at
the White House coronavirus news
briefing in the Rose Garden on Tuesday that the United States will immediately halt all funding for the WHO,
saying it had put "political correctness over lifesaving
measures." The United States is the WHO's largest single donor,
and the State Department had previously planned to provide the agency $893
million in the current two-year funding period.
Senior administrations separately tell Fox News the rollout
of the president’s “blueprint for reopening the U.S. economy” will happen
Thursday afternoon, first for governors and then briefed to the press.
Meanwhile, Trump's own handling of the crisis has come into
focus. On January 24, for example, Trump tweeted in praise of China’s “transparency"
on coronavirus.
Though they were not speaking for the president, the sources
ventured an explanation, saying it was diplomatic talk to make the Chinese
"feel good" while the investigation was ongoing, with trade and
other talks happening simultaneously.
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly
determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city
of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of
thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year
celebrations.
President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day,
Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during
almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained
by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.
“This is tremendous,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist
at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If they took action six days
earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would
have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical
system.”
Fox News' Barnini
Chakraborty and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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VIDEO: 1st documentary
movie on the origin of CCP virus, Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan
Coronavirus
Posted by Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP
109K subscribers - Premiered Apr 7, 2020
As the world is gripped by the ongoing pandemic, many
questions remain about the origin of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
Join Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua
Philipp as he explores the known facts surrounding the CCP virus and the global
pandemic it caused.
In his investigation, Philipp explores the scientific data,
and interviews top scientists and national security experts. And while the
mystery surrounding the virus's origin remains, much is learned about the CCP's
cover-up that led to the pandemic and the threat it poses to the world. … READ THE REST
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China decimated US intelligence
apparatus years ago, posing steep challenge during coronavirus cover-up
By Hollie
McKay
April 17, 2020
A glaring spotlight has been cast on U.S. intelligence
operations in China in the
wake of the coronavirus
pandemic and how exactly the novel pathogen originated in the city of Wuhan.
While China's official narrative is that the disease was
born out of a wet market in the city, sources within the U.S. intelligence
community are now examining the theory that the origin of the pandemic stemmed
from a laboratory — not out of malicious intent, but from an accident
while undertaking dangerous virus research to keep up with the United
States. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fox
News' Jennifer Griffin U.S. intel is investigating the origins.
Intelligence experts stress that the attempt to usurp the
U.S. as the global superpower is at the heart of their brutal dismantling of
intelligence operations within the country. But American intel has been
working from a disadvantage ever since several operatives' covers were blown
over the last decade, leading to a purge by Beijing.
Reports emerged in 2017 that China had dealt a huge blow to
the CIA's infrastructure within its borders. From 2010 through to around 2013,
according to The New York Times,
more than a dozen carefully curated assets in China were jailed or killed
— with one even brazenly shot outside a government building as a perceived
warning to others.
"It was devastating. The setback probably delayed
the U.S. national security community from fully comprehending Beijing's move
toward a more oppressive and assertive policy," Patrick Cronin,
Asia-Pacific security chair for the Hudson Institute, told Fox News. "The
gap in a sharper understanding of the Chinese Communist Party's true aims
bought it more time to enact greater information suppression at home and more
aggressive political warfare abroad."
The moves were deemed one of the worst in the agency's
modern history.
"We didn't lose just a single spy. We lost entire networks," said
Dean Cheng, senior research fellow and lead China expert at the Heritage
Foundation. "That means that many of the various people who
worked for us were all rolled up, which, in turn, would have devastated
the credibility of our own agency and affected our ability to recruit new
people."
According to multiple former intelligence officials, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation, the
blow was felt hard — and some have questioned whether U.S. intelligence
in the country ever adequately recovered.
"This was a well-planned, multifaceted strategic
operation. First, blind your adversary. In this case, collect intelligence by
hacking or other means to identify operatives. Then, remove those human assets
or sources by imprisonment or execution. This is far more subtle than blinding
our satellites, which would be an overt act of war," explained one former
U.S. Army intelligence leader. "The best intelligence is Human
Intelligence, HUMINT, which comes from recruited assets or 'agents.' That is
confirmed or denied by other collection such as IMINT (imagery) or SIGINT
(signals collection)."
The steady exodus of sources, coupled with the drying up of
information from inside, subsequently spurred a joint FBI/CIA investigation
code-named Honey Badger, which revealed the devastating fallout. It remains
unclear if the breach was ignited by a mole – or moles – within the CIA's China
scope, or by a high-level hacking that compromised insiders — or a
combination of both.
"Our intelligence gaps in China are large enough to
drive a truck through, especially when it involves the biggest challenge in
intel collection: elite politics," noted Isaac Stone Fish, a senior
fellow at the Asia Society who is writing a book on Beijing's influence in
America. "What's the relationship between Chairman Xi (Jinping) and the
men who run the Central Military Commission, the body that oversees the Party's
military? How much control does Xi have over the Politburo Standing Committee,
whose seven members, Xi included, run China? We know astonishingly little about
the personalities and power politics at the top of the Party, and I assume that
the intel community faces similar limitations."
The yearslong onslaught has subsequently made it
"extremely challenging to recruit assets with access and placement,
especially at the Wuhan Lab," one former defense intelligence analyst
stressed.
"In a situation like this, it takes a significant
amount of time to first figure out what the source of exposure was, so you do
not keep falling prey to the same vulnerability, and then begin the spy
recruitment and onboarding cycle," observed Greg Barbaccia, a former
U.S. Army intelligence analyst and current expert in counterintelligence
and insider threat.
And the recovery process is a protracted one.
"China remains one of the largest focuses of United
States intelligence collection efforts and is only ramping up," Barbaccia
said. "The biggest challenge is that the Ministry of State Security (MSS)
has a world-class counterintelligence and counterespionage operation. They have
access to all the information that flows in, out, and through the country, as
well as all possible information on their population. This makes for a
supremely difficult environment to run a human source, or employ a technical collection
capability."
Yet information collection in China has been hampered in
other ways, too.
"It is not just intelligence networks that provide
critical support to national security," stressed David Maxwell, a China
and military expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies (FDD). "Restrictions on our diplomatic activities and the
ability for our diplomats to engage people throughout China hinders our ability
to develop situational understanding.
"This includes all the intelligence disciplines, human
and technical (to include medical intelligence reporting), as well as
diplomatic reporting, law enforcement reporting, and media reporting."
Dan Hoffman, a retired CIA station chief, underscored that
there are no "denied areas of operation" within the U.S. intel
umbrella and that Americans continue to operate everywhere, utilizing a
combination of human sources, overhead reconnaissance – such as drones
– open-source data and a top-notch teams of analysts.
According to a Washington Post report earlier this month,
State Department officials visited the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory –
one of several research facilities in the area – in 2018 and issued a cable
back home warning of steep safety concerns.
John Wood, a defense expert who specializes in
asymmetric warfare, stressed that the U.S. capabilities are the most advanced
and extensive in the world.
"Consequently, the battle for AI supremacy between USA
and China is critical to who will prevail over the long term," he said.
"The issue is not the collection of data, but the timely and accurate
understanding and execution upon the data's findings, and at that, we remain
the best in the world."
Nonetheless, U.S. officials remain confident that the exact
origins of the virus that has claimed the lives of more than 143,000 people
worldwide will eventually be brought to light.
"Over the last few years, the Trump administration has
made it a priority to dismantle China's penetration of our universities,
research labs, corporations and Intelligence agencies," said one
former Pentagon intelligence official. "It will take years to repair
the damage and try to get ahead.
"Until then, we will remain hampered, but we always
find a way through other avenues. It's only a matter of time before we have a
reasonable understanding of the origins of corona," the official
concluded.
Hollie McKay has a been a Fox
News Digital staff reporter since 2007. She has extensively reported from war
zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, and Latin
America investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the
world. Follow her on Twitter.
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Coronavirus: WHO Director Has a
Long History of Cover-Ups
o "WHO officials have complained privately that Ethiopian
officials are not telling the truth about these outbreaks. Testing for Vibrio
cholerae bacteria, which cause cholera, is simple and takes less than two
days.... United Nations officials said more aid could have been delivered to
Ethiopia had the truth been told." — The New York Times, May 13,
2017.
o Tedros dismissed the accusations against him by playing the
race card. He said that criticism of him stemmed from a "typical colonial
mind-set aimed at... discrediting a candidate from a developing country."
— The New York Times, May 13, 2017.
o "By yielding to the Khartoum's regime's threat, you are
complicit in the failure to respond to a disease that currently threatens many
hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians — and is currently active in twelve
Sudanese states." — Open letter to Tedros from a group of American
physicians accusing him of failing to investigate outbreaks of cholera in
Sudan, September 11, 2017.
o
A day after U.S.
President Donald Trump accused the WHO of being "very China-centric,"
and threatened to cut funding to WHO, Tedros responded: "Please quarantine
politicizing COVID. We will have many body bags in front of us if we don't
behave." Tedros also said that criticism of his handling of the
coronavirus pandemic was motivated by racism.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
head of the World Health Organization, faces increased scrutiny over his
handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Tedros has a long history of covering up
epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister
of health and minister of foreign affairs. In that role, he oversaw a massive
expansion of China's role in Ethiopia. China is Ethiopia's biggest foreign
investor, largest trading partner and largest lender. Pictured: Tedros (left)
meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Naohiko Hatta - Pool/Getty Images)
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO),
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is facing increased scrutiny over his handling of
the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more
than two million people around the world and killed at
least 150,000.
Adhanom, who goes by the name Tedros, is an Ethiopian
microbiologist who, with the help of
China, began a five-year term as head of the WHO in July 2017. He has been
accused of misrepresenting the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an
attempt to pander to China.
The historical record shows that Tedros, the first African
and the first non-physician to lead the WHO, has a long history of covering up
epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister
of health and minister of foreign affairs.
In May 2017, when Tedros emerged as the top candidate in a
three-way race to lead the WHO, the New York Times reported
accusations that Tedros covered up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia when he
was the country's health minister between 2005 and 2012.
Tedros claimed that cholera outbreaks occurring in 2006,
2009 and 2011 were only "acute watery diarrhea" — an infectious
disease known in the rest of the world as cholera. He said that the outbreaks
were limited to remote areas of the country where laboratory testing was
"difficult" and that international concerns were overblown. The epidemics
eventually reached neighboring countries including Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
The New York Times explained:
"WHO officials have complained
privately that Ethiopian officials are not telling the truth about these
outbreaks. Testing for Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which cause cholera, is simple
and takes less than two days.
"During earlier outbreaks,
various news organizations, including The Guardian and The Washington
Post, reported that unnamed Ethiopian officials were pressuring aid
agencies to avoid using the word 'cholera' and not to report the number of
people affected.
"But cholera bacteria were
found in stool samples tested by outside experts. As soon as severe diarrhea
began appearing in neighboring countries, the cause was identified as cholera.
"United Nations officials said
more aid could have been delivered to Ethiopia had the truth been told."
The director of the O'Neill Institute for National and
Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Lawrence O. Gostin, said that he
called attention to Ethiopia's long history of denying cholera outbreaks
because he believed the WHO "might lose its legitimacy" if it is run
by a representative of a country that itself covers up epidemics.
"Dr. Tedros is a compassionate and highly competent
public health official," Gostin told the New
York Times. "But he had a duty to speak truth to power and to honestly
identify and report verified cholera outbreaks over an extended period."
Tedros dismissed the
accusations against him by playing the race card. He said that criticism of him
stemmed from a "typical colonial mind-set aimed at... discrediting a
candidate from a developing country."
The Guardian reported that the Ethiopian
government has been reluctant to acknowledge the cholera outbreaks "for
fear of damaging the economy." The Washington Post explained
that Ethiopian authorities have a propensity for refusing to call bad news by
its real name:
"Acute watery diarrhea [AWD]
is a potentially fatal condition caused by water infected with the Vibrio
cholera bacterium. Everywhere else in the world it is simply called cholera.
"But not in Ethiopia, where
international humanitarian organizations privately admit that they are only
allowed to call it AWD and are not permitted to publish the number of people
affected.
"The government is apparently
concerned about the international impact if news of a significant cholera
outbreak were to get out, even though the disease is not unusual in East
Africa.
"This means that,
hypothetically, when refugees from South Sudan with cholera flee across the
border into Ethiopia, they suddenly have AWD instead."
In a similar manner, when international aid groups in 2016
sounded alarm bells over the lack of rain, Ethiopian authorities, including
Tedros, were divided over whether they should call it a drought. The Post
reported:
"The narrative for Ethiopia in
2015 was a successful nation with double-digit growth, and the government did
not want to bring back memories of the 1980s drought that killed hundreds of
thousands and left the country forever associated with famine.
"'We don't use the f-word,'
explained an aid worker... referring to famine."
Similar allegations of cover-up were reported while Tedros
was Ethiopia's foreign minister between 2012 and 2016. In October 2016, for
instance, Tedros wrote in a
blog post that he opposed efforts by Human Rights Watch to force Ethiopia to
accept an international investigation into the way the government responded to
anti-government protests.
The protests began in November 2015 due to
public anger over the government's heavy-handedness. They escalated in October
2016, when government security forces fired on a
large crowd of festival-goers. The protests, which eventually spread across the
country, left hundreds of people dead and tens of thousands detained.
Tedros's cover-ups continued after he became the director
general of the WHO. In September 2017, a group of American physicians, in an
open letter addressed to Tedros, accused him
of failing to investigate outbreaks of cholera in Sudan:
"The mandate of the UN's World
Health Organization (WHO) could hardly be clearer; in the words of the
Organization: 'Our primary role is to direct and coordinate international
health within the United Nations' system. Our goal is to build a better,
healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more
than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other
partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.'
"And yet this impressive
mandate is daily made a mockery of by WHO's refusal to refer to the cholera
epidemic raging in Sudan by name. Neither your organization nor the UN's Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will refer explicitly to the fact
that what you continue to call "Acute Watery Diarrhea" is in fact
cholera, Vibrio cholera — a fact established by laboratory tests in Sudan....
"To be sure, the Khartoum
regime has made clear that it will punish Sudanese journalists and health
officials who dare to use the word 'cholera,' and no doubt threats have been
issued to WHO, demanding that you be complicit in silence about this terrible
disease. The regime's motive is transparently a desire that the 'reputation' of
Sudan not be compromised by associations the regime perceives would inhere in
any accurate designation of a disease that is clearly out of control. But the
effect of WHO's silence is to ensure that Sudan has not received international
medical resources necessary to combat cholera — preeminently massive supplies
of re-hydration equipment; medical epidemiologists as well as specialists in
treating cholera epidemics; and water/sanitation equipment and engineers.
"By yielding to the Khartoum's
regime's threat, you are complicit in the failure to respond to a disease that
currently threatens many hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians — and is
currently active in twelve Sudanese states....
"Your silence about what is
clearly a massive cholera epidemic in Sudan is reprehensible. Your failure to
transport stool samples from victims in Sudan to Geneva for official
confirmation of cholera makes you fully complicit in the terrible suffering and
dying that continues to spread, out of control, with daily new reports
confirming that this is indeed a cholera epidemic.
"The inevitable history that
will be written of this epidemic will surely cast you in an unforgiving
light."
In October 2017, Tedros appointed the
late Robert Mugabe, the authoritarian leader of Zimbabwe, as a UN Goodwill
Ambassador. Tedros had praised Zimbabwe as "a country that places
universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to
provide health care to all." After global outrage, Tedros rescinded the
appointment.
Writing for the Sunday Times, Rebecca Myers wrote:
"Diplomats said [Mugabe's]
appointment was a political payoff from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — the WHO's
first African director-general — to China, a long-time ally of Mugabe, and the
50 or so African states that helped to secure Tedros's election earlier this
year...
"Chinese diplomats had
campaigned hard for the Ethiopian, using Beijing's financial clout and opaque
aid budget to build support for him among developing countries."
Columnist Frida Ghitis, writing for The Washington Post
added:
"The WHO director's decision
to honor the dictator is a misjudgment of breathtaking proportions. The stain
it has left on the WHO will not be easily cleansed. We must find out what was
behind it. If an investigation proves that giving this prestigious appointment
to a brutal human rights violator was the result of corruption, Tedros must
leave. In fact, Tedros's tenure should already be regarded as probationary, and
his judgment in question....
"Some speculate that Tedros's
decision to appoint Mugabe was a pay-off to China, which worked tirelessly
behind the scenes to help Tedros defeat the United Kingdom candidate for the
WHO job, David Nabarro. Tedros's victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose
leader Xi Jinping has made public his goal of flexing China's muscle in the
world."
In July 2018, China Global Television Network (CGTN), a
state-owned media outlet, reported that
Tedros had met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing. It was
Tedros's second visit to China since he took over as the director general of
WHO. CGTN stated:
"The Chinese state councilor
[Wang Yi] went on to say that healthcare was an important part of global
governance and China's national development strategy. He said Beijing was
willing to deepen cooperation with the WHO under a number of initiatives, such
as their joint 'Health Silk Road' project, various China-Africa health
development plans, as well as the organization's five-year action plan for
health, employment and inclusive economic growth.
"Dr. Tedros welcomed Wang's
comments, saying their enhanced cooperation would improve health standards in
countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative."
As Ethiopia's foreign minister, Tedros, an executive member
of the Marxist-Leninist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), oversaw a
massive expansion of China's role in Ethiopia. China is Ethiopia's biggest
foreign investor, its largest trading partner and also its largest lender.
Writing for Politico, Simon Marks explained:
"Over the course of the last
decade, Ethiopia has become increasingly dependent on Chinese investment.
"The Export-Import Bank of
China put up $2.9 billion of the $3.4 billion railway project connecting
Ethiopia to Djibouti, providing the landlocked country access to ports. Chinese
funds were also instrumental in the construction of Ethiopia's first six-lane
highway — an $800 million project — the metro system, and several skyscrapers
dotting Addis Ababa's skyline.
"Beijing also accounts for
nearly half of Ethiopia's external debt and has lent at least $13.7 billion to
Ethiopia between 2000 and 2018, data compiled by John Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies shows."
Ethiopia is now ensnared in a debt trap that leaves the
country vulnerable to pressure from Beijing.
On April 15, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced
that he will withhold funding to the WHO while his administration reviews the
group's "mismanagement, cover-ups, and failures" related to the
pandemic. The United States is the WHO's largest donor, providing approximately
$900 million for the two-year budget cycle of 2018 and 2019.
In a statement, the White House said that the
WHO "has longstanding structural issues that must be addressed before the
organization can be trusted again." It added that
the WHO was "vulnerable to misinformation and political influence"
and that measures were needed to "counter China's outsized influence on
the organization."
That same day, members of the U.S. Senate demanded that
the WHO provide information, records and documents regarding the origins of the
coronavirus as part of a larger investigation into the global response to the
pandemic.
In a letter to Tedros, Homeland Security Committee Chairman
Ron Johnson and other Republican Senators requested a
sweeping list of materials regarding what they called "WHO's failed and
delayed response to the Coronavirus."
Meanwhile, an online petition calling for Tedros's immediate
resignation neared one
million signatures. The petition, posted on the Change.org website, states:
"We strongly think Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is not fit for his role as
WHO Director General."
Timeline of WHO's Efforts to Pander to China
Several media outlets have published timelines of Chinese
efforts to conceal the extent of the coronavirus from the rest of the world (here, here, here and here). Following is an abbreviated
timeline of Tedros's complicity with China:
o
December 30. Li
Wenliang, a 34-year-old doctor, sounded the
alarm about a new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. Li sent a message to a
group of other doctors warning that seven patients had been quarantined at
Wuhan Central Hospital after coming down with a respiratory illness that seemed
like the SARS coronavirus. The police in Wuhan subsequently reprimanded and
silenced Li, requiring him to sign a letter acknowledging that he was making
"false comments."
o
December 31. Taiwan contacted the
WHO after seeing Li's reports of human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus
in Wuhan, but the WHO kept it from the public.
o
January 1. An
employee of a genomics company in Wuhan received a phone call from an official
at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, ordering the
company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and to
destroy all existing samples.
o
January 3. China's
National Health Commission (NHC), the nation's top health authority, ordered
institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and
ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing
institutions, or to destroy them.
o
January 14. WHO tweeted:
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have
found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel
#coronavirus." A day earlier, WHO had reported the
first case outside of China — in Thailand.
o
January 21. The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the
first case of coronavirus in the United States in the state of Washington. The
patient had recently returned from Wuhan.
o
January 23. Wuhan, a
city of 11 million, was placed in
lockdown. China closed all
internal transit from Wuhan to other cities in China, but did nothing to stop
international flights.
o
January 30. Tedros
visited China and praised the
country's leadership for "setting a new standard for outbreak
response." He also declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health
emergency of international concern.
o
January 31. The
Trump Administration announced
travel restrictions to and from China, effective February 2.
o
February 4. Tedros rebuked
President Trump's travel restrictions, saying that they "can have the
effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit."
o
February 7. Doctor
Li Wenliang, the coronavirus whistleblower, died in Wuhan
after being infected with the virus. His death sparked an outpouring of grief
and anger online in China.
o
February 14. Tedros said that WHO
was "seeking clarity on how clinical diagnoses are being made so that
other respiratory illnesses, including influenza, are not getting mixed into
the COVID-19 data." He also warned against criticizing China:
"This is the time for solidarity, not stigma."
o
February 28. WHO, in
a 40-page report, praised
China's response to COVID-19: "China's bold approach to contain the rapid
spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly
escalating and deadly epidemic."
o
March 11. Tedros
finally declared the
coronavirus outbreak a pandemic: "We expect to see the number of cases,
the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even
higher."
o
March 18. An
executive director of WHO, Mike Ryan, criticized President Trump:
"We need to be careful of the language we use lest it lead to profiling.
The pandemic flu of 2009 started in North America, and we didn't call it the
North American flu. This is a time to move forward and fight the virus
together. Viruses know no borders and they don't care about your ethnicity, the
color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank."
o
March 29. Ai Fen, a
Wuhan doctor who was among the first to alert other medics to the spread of
coronavirus, disappeared amid concerns that she
had been detained by Chinese authorities. Her whereabouts are unknown.
o
April 8. A day after
U.S. President Donald Trump accused the
WHO of being "very China-centric," and threatened to cut funding to
WHO, Tedros responded:
"Please quarantine politicizing COVID. We will have many body bags in
front of us if we don't behave." Tedros also said that
criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic was motivated by racism.
Soeren
Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based
Gatestone Institute.
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PART TWO TOMORROW
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China, W.H.O. & UN
Coverup Part One:
I Think There is a
Bioweapon Issue Elitists Don’t Want to Know About
Edited by John R. Houk
Posted April 18, 2020
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Sources believe coronavirus
outbreak originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US
AND
China decimated US
intelligence apparatus years ago, posing steep challenge during coronavirus
cover-up
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Coronavirus: WHO Director
Has a Long History of Cover-Ups
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