(But not these ones)
Some have hidden their wrongdoings so well that they are either never discovered or are found out years after the fact. They may have relied on the moral or physical weaknesses of others to hide their sins, the apparatus of the state or the press to obscure or excuse their crimes or have simply kept their wrongdoings to themselves.
China does not have the luxury of these cloaks.
Not any more:
China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens of thousands of lives, according to a dossier prepared by concerned Western governments on the COVID-19 contagion. ...
It can also be revealed the Australian government trained and funded a team of Chinese scientists who belong to a laboratory which went on to genetically modify deadly coronaviruses that could be transmitted from bats to humans and had no cure, and is now the subject of a probe into the origins of COVID-19.
As intelligence agencies investigate whether the virus inadvertently leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, the team and its research led by scientist Shi Zhengli feature in the dossier prepared by Western governments that points to several studies they conducted as areas of concern.
It cites their work discovering samples of coronavirus from a cave in the Yunnan province with striking genetic similarity to COVID-19, along with their research synthesising a bat-derived coronavirus that could not be treated.
Its major themes include the “deadly denial of human-to-human transmission”, the silencing or “disappearing” of doctors and scientists who spoke out, the destruction of evidence of the virus from genomic studies laboratories, and “bleaching of wildlife market stalls”, along with the refusal to provide live virus samples to international scientists working on a vaccine.
The US withdrew funding from controversial experiments that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread dangerous viruses in October 2014, concerned it could lead to a global pandemic.
The pause on funding for 21 “gain of function” studies was then lifted in December 2017.
Despite the concerns, the CSIRO continued to partner and fund research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. ...
A ‘‘Sensitive but Unclassified’’ cable, dated January 19, 2018, obtained by The Washington Post, revealed that US embassy scientists and diplomats in Beijing visited the laboratory and sent warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety practices and management weaknesses as it conducted research on coronaviruses from bats.
“During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,” the cable stated. ...
The paper obtained by The Saturday Telegraph speaks about “the suppression and destruction of evidence” and points to “virus samples ordered destroyed at genomics labs, wildlife market stalls bleached, the genome sequence not shared publicly, the Shanghai lab closure for ‘rectification’, academic articles subjected to prior review by the Ministry of Science and Technology and data on asymptomatic ‘silent carriers’ kept secret”.
It paints a picture of how the Chinese government deliberately covered up the coronavirus by silencing doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence from the Wuhan laboratory and refusing to provide live virus samples to international scientists working on a vaccine.
The US, along with other countries, has repeatedly demanded a live virus sample from the first batch of coronavirus cases. This is understood to have not been forthcoming despite its vital importance in developing a vaccine while potentially providing an indication of where the virus originated.
Out of all the doctors, activists, journalists and scientists who have reportedly disappeared after speaking out about the coronavirus or criticising the response of Chinese authorities, no case is more intriguing and worrying than that of Huang Yan Ling.
A researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the South China Morning Post reported rumours swirling on Chinese social media that she was the first to be diagnosed with the disease and was “patient zero”.
Then came her reported disappearance, with her biography and image deleted from the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s website.
On February 16 the institute denied she was patient zero and said she was alive and well, but there has been no proof of life since then, fanning speculation.
(Sidebar: that seems like a familiar story.)
On December 31, Chinese authorities started censoring news of the virus from search engines, deleting terms including “SARS variation, “Wuhan Seafood market” and “Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia.”On January 1 without any investigation into where the virus originated from, the Wuhan seafood market was closed and disinfected.It has been reported in the New York Times that individual animals and cages were not swabbed “eliminating evidence of what animal might have been the source of the coronavirus and which people had become infected but survived”. The Hubei health commission ordered genomics companies to stop testing for the new virus and to destroy all samples. A day later, on January 3, China’s leading health authority, the National Health Commission, ordered Wuhan pneumonia samples be moved to designated testing facilities or destroyed, while instructing a no-publication order related to the unknown disease.Doctors who bravely spoke out about the new virus were detained and condemned. Their detentions were splashed across the Chinese-state media with a call from Wuhan Police for “all citizens to not fabricate rumours, not spread rumours, not believe rumours.” ...
(Sidebar: again, this sounds awfully familiar - On April 2, the minister was asked by a journalist about reports that China had misled the world on its coronavirus numbers. Ms. Hajdu, who seemed almost annoyed by the question, replied that there was “no indication that the data that came out of China in terms of their infection rate and their death rate was falsified in any way.” She then accused the journalist of feeding into online conspiracy theories.)
So the truth about the outbreak in China has remained shrouded in secrecy, with President Xi Jinping aggressively rejecting global calls for an inquiry.
(Sidebar: there is an awful lot of that in China and Canadians don't seem to notice or care - Chen, the court said, “attacked and vilified the Communist Party and government” by publishing “false information” and “malicious speculation.”)
The dossier is damning of China’s constant denials about the outbreak.“Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20,” it states.“The World Health Organisation does the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4.”The paper exposes the hypocrisy of China’s self-imposed travel bans while condemning those of Australia and the United States, declaring: “Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23.” “Thousands fly overseas. Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, Italy, India, Australia, Southeast Asian neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home.” In the paper, the Western governments are pushing back at what they call an “assault on international transparency”.
(Sidebar: interesting -“As of February 24, screen messages in the arrivals area at ten airports were updated with new language that refers generally to COVID-19 and no longer mentions China. New handouts for all travellers were also available at three airports (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). New posters for all airports, and new handouts for the remaining seven, smaller international airports will be available later this week. CBSA reports that from January 22 to February 23, 61,826 travellers arrived directly from China’s Mainland to Canada.”)
Read the whole thing. It's quite damning.
It remains to be seen whether or not countries like Australia and the US have the stamina to hold China to account and possibly inflict political sanctions but one country that will likely not do so is Canada.
It had and still has its supporters in all facets of Canadian political life much to the comfort of China:
Since the initial publication of its article on April 29, CBC has quietly made substantial changes to its headline three times—all without informing readers of the change or issuing a correction.
The four headlines so far are:
Original Version
‘Racist and inflammatory’: Canadians upset by Epoch Times claim China behind virus, made it as a bioweapon
Second Version
Some Canadians who received unsolicited copy of Epoch Times upset by claim that China was behind virus
Third Version
Some Canadians see claims in Epoch Times about origin of virus as ‘racist and inflammatory’
Fourth Version
Some Canadians who received unsolicited copy of Epoch Times upset by claim that China was behind virus
It is worth noting that all of these headlines are incorrect.
The reality is, as can be seen directly on the cover of our special edition on the coronavirus that was the main focus of the CBC’s article, is that we wrote: “The Chinese Communist Party’s coverup led to a pandemic that now threatens the lives of people around the globe.”
It clearly and squarely puts the blame for the coverup on China’s ruling communist regime. As a Chinese immigrant myself, I understand very well the difference between the Chinese Communist Party and China and the Chinese people—who have been the biggest victims of the CCP’s coverup.
But the CBC article is not making this distinction and is instead helping to push the communist regime’s line that the Party and China are one and the same.
Conflating the Communist Party with China as a whole or with the Chinese people is a tactic frequently used by the CCP itself to arouse nationalism, and use the claim of “racism” to deflect criticism of the CCP. It is sad to see that CBC has followed the same line as the CCP.
As a taxpayer funded media—to the tune of an estimated $1.2 billion per year—we would expect our national media to do a better job in informing Canadians about the threat that the regime in Beijing poses to not only the Chinese people, but to the world.
Not just that, CBC—as detailed in our previous article—deliberately ignored our statement to them, and failed to back up its main claim that we say the virus is a Chinese bioweapon, which is not what our special edition stated.
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The Commons health committee on Thursday voted unanimously in favour of a motion to call Dr. Aylward to appear before the committee. MPs for the Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and NDP all backed it.
(Sidebar: it should be noted that those above are the same Liberals who gave 16 tonnes of aid to China has been late in begrudgingly admitting that they failed maintain stocks of personal protective equipment and other supplies that would have safeguarded health professionals and prevented the obscene distances one must keep in order to purchase milk and bread. That is not the case for China, however, as outlined here in an article that states how the Chinese and the fifth columnists residing in Canada have been hording and sending protective gear to China.)
Canada has a long and lucrative relationship with the now-embattled China and it is hard to see that changing.
Also - Remdesivir may or may not work but one would not think so looking at China's actions:
Chinese researchers have applied for a national patent on an experimental Gilead Sciences Inc. drug that they believe might fight the novel coronavirus.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology -- based in the Chinese city at the center of the epidemic -- has applied for a patent in China for the use of the antiviral drug, known as remdesivir, in treating the ailment. The application was made on Jan. 21 together with a military academy, according to a Feb. 4 statement on the institute’s website.
What is it that Derek Sloan has to apologise for?
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