Tag: Wuhan

Officials Grill PHAC Over Failure to Produce Unredacted Documents Concerning Transfer of Viruses to Wuhan Lab

A Commons Committee grilled the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) over his failure to produce unredacted documents related to the transfer of deadly viruses to China’s Wuhan laboratory and the agency’s removal of two Chinese scientists. The Standing Committee on Canada-China Relations summoned Iain Stewart to testify on Monday after he…


MPs Grill PHAC Over Failure to Produce Unredacted Documents Concerning Transfer of Viruses to Wuhan Lab

A Commons Committee grilled the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) over his failure to produce unredacted documents related to the transfer of deadly viruses to China’s Wuhan laboratory and the agency’s removal of two Chinese scientists. The Standing Committee on Canada-China Relations summoned Iain Stewart to testify on Monday after he…


Brazil’s President Suggests CCP Virus Created to Wage ‘Biological Warfare’

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro floated the idea that the CCP virus may have been a lab product created to carry out “biological warfare.” “It’s a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn’t have,” he said in a speech on May 5. “But…


We Will ‘Get to Bottom of This’: MP Genuis on Transfer of Deadly Viruses From Canada to Wuhan Lab

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says he is committed to getting to the bottom of the case regarding the transfer of deadly viruses from a lab in Canada to the Chinese military-affiliated Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Two Chinese scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, and some of Qiu’s students from China, were escorted…


‘It All Began in China’—Book Excerpt From ‘COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic’

Book Excerpt Timelines associated with the spread of COVID-19 have changed over the past several months and, with new information, may change again in the future. There seems to be widespread agreement in publicly available sources that individuals with odd flu-like illnesses were observed in China as early as August 2019. Nothing was confirmed until…


WHO Report Blames Animals Instead of Wuhan Lab Leak for CCP Virus Outbreak, Questions Unanswered

A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes COVID-19 likely spread to people via an animal, but WHO’s chief said the mission to study the origins of the virus did not adequately analyze other theories. “As far as WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on…


Former CDC Director: COVID-19 Escaped From Wuhan Virology Lab

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he believes the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated from a Chinese laboratory. “It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker,” Redfield said in an interview with CNN on…


China Insider: Yangtze River Dries up as Dams Worsen the Impact of Drought

Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is nicknamed the “City of Yangtze” because it is the biggest city in the middle reach of the Yangtze River and situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han Rivers, one of eight major tributaries. That explains why when a video showing a dried-up section of…


Pandemic May Have Been Caused by Bioweapon Research Accident in China: Former State Department Investigator

The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a bioweapon leak in China, according to David Asher, former lead COVID-19 investigator at the U.S. State Department. “This might have been a weapons vector gone awry; not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked,” Asher said on March 12…


Researcher Under FBI Investigation for Allegedly Hiding Ties to China

A Chinese researcher who once worked at The Jackson Laboratory is under FBI investigation, for allegedly failing to disclose his financial ties to China in applications for U.S. government funding. Ruan Yijun, a geneticist, failed to disclose his participation in a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program called the Thousand Talents program and his collaboration agreement with…