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According to Chinese military doctrine, such bioweapons are used prior to a declaration of war for political or international strategic needs, where the use of which can be denied. The intent, according to [[leak]]ed documents, being: "Even if the academic evidence, virological evidence, and animal experiment data could possibly prove (that the virus comes from the lab), we can just deny it, stop (investigation), suppress (scholars), make sure the international organizations and honest people’s work is futile.” | According to Chinese military doctrine, such bioweapons are used prior to a declaration of war for political or international strategic needs, where the use of which can be denied. The intent, according to [[leak]]ed documents, being: "Even if the academic evidence, virological evidence, and animal experiment data could possibly prove (that the virus comes from the lab), we can just deny it, stop (investigation), suppress (scholars), make sure the international organizations and honest people’s work is futile.” | ||
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A fully formed sample of COVID-19 was ready for testing in early 2019, while a parallel [[vaccine]] program was underway. | A fully formed sample of COVID-19 was ready for testing in early 2019, while a parallel [[vaccine]] program was underway. | ||
Revision as of 05:00, July 27, 2021
Biological weapons are infectious or toxic agents used in warfare. They are banned under the Biological Weapons Convention of 1975[1] but some countries still have stocks of them. Biological weapons have the potential of a deadly threat against civilian populations.
History
Smallpox may have been used as a biological weapon in North America in the 18th century.[2] During World War II Britain conducted experiments with anthrax as a biological weapon on Gruinard Island, Scotland.[3] Anthrax was used in a terrorist attack on American citizens in 2001.
China
China agreed to the Biological Weapons Convention in 1984, but both academics and government agencies have asserted that the regime is a world leader in bioweapon production.[4]
James Giordano, a neurology professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow in biowarfare at the U.S. Special Operations Command, said China’s growing investment in bio-science, looser ethics around gene-editing and other cutting-edge technology and integration between government and academia raise the spectre of deadly pathogens being weaponized.[5] In a 2015 academic paper Dany Shoham, a biological and chemical warfare expert at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University asserts that more than 40 Chinese facilities are involved in bio-weapon production.[6]
SARS CoV-2
- See also: Coronavirus
COVID-19 was created in a laboratory by the Chinese People's Liberation Army and fine-tuned as a bioweapon. It was specifically designed to be highly contagious, but often asymptomatic, have low lethality, but produce uncontrollable variants and possessing characteristics providing plausible deniability as a bioweapon.
According to Chinese military doctrine, such bioweapons are used prior to a declaration of war for political or international strategic needs, where the use of which can be denied. The intent, according to leaked documents, being: "Even if the academic evidence, virological evidence, and animal experiment data could possibly prove (that the virus comes from the lab), we can just deny it, stop (investigation), suppress (scholars), make sure the international organizations and honest people’s work is futile.”
A fully formed sample of COVID-19 was ready for testing in early 2019, while a parallel vaccine program was underway.
Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were chosen to participate in non-human primate (monkeys) transmission testing, simulated coronavirus release and response exercises such as at Wuhan’s Tianhe airport in September 2019 and an actual test release of COVID-19 at the 2019 Military World Games from October 18–27, 2019.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/%28httpPages%29/04FBBDD6315AC720C1257180004B1B2F?OpenDocument
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/pox_weapon_01.shtml
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOJRxs_dTI
- ↑ https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/questions-surround-canadian-shipment-of-deadly-viruses-to-china-66254
- ↑ https://edmontonjournal.com/health/bio-warfare-experts-question-why-canada-was-sending-lethal-viruses-to-china/wcm/fce2a521-4ce1-4eb0-8ccf-43f165713c0b/
- ↑ https://idsa.in/system/files/jds/jds_9_2_2015_DanyShoham.pdf
- ↑ https://ccnationalsecurity.org/more-evidence-leaked-from-china-on-the-deliberate-release-of-covid-19-by-the-chinese-military/