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Western special services gathered a dossier about the origin of the coronavirus
The accusations of US President Donald Trump against China in aiding the spread of coronavirus - up to the promise of a new trade war - gained the ground in the eyes of the world community. The joint dossier of Western intelligence accuses China of intentional concealment and destruction of information about the initial outbreak of the epidemic that could cost the world tens of thousands of lives.
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What happened
The Daily Telegraph has published a statement of a joint dossier of the Western intelligence services about the origin of the new coronavirus. The main thing from the document:
In the laboratory in Jun for years, coronaviruses of bats were studied for years, and work was also carried out to create modified viruses based on atypical pneumonia (SARS). The research was headed by the director of the Center for New Infectious Diseases of Shi Zhenley.
In early 2018, American experts warn of inadequacy of staff training and precautions when working with dangerous biomaterials in Jun.
In 2019, the group of Shi Zhenley publishes a study on coronaviruses of bats, indicating their significant danger and the possibility of transferring to a person. The main conclusion of the study sounds like a prophecy: “It is extremely likely that the future outbreaks of SARS-like infections will come from contact with bats, and it is more likely that this will happen in China.”
In early December 2019, the first case of transmitting a new disease from person to person took place in Ujan. By the end of December, the Chinese authorities know for sure that this is coronavirus and that he has a high ability to transfer from person to person, but share this information with the world only on January 20.
A systematic campaign to cover everything related to coronavirus, including the destruction of samples, also began at the end of December. Network censorship for requests for “new atypical pneumonia” has been valid since December 31, the full disinfection of the seafood market in Jun is carried out from January 1, the order to surrender or destroying samples with a ban on publications about a new disease is dated January 3.
Doctors who tried to talk about real danger were subjected to persecution and arrests.
At least until the beginning of February, China consistently diminished the danger of coronavirus, including through the WHO and through diplomatic pressure on the EU and Australia.
The dossier accuses China of direct hypocrisy: by introducing tough internal restrictions from January 23, China condemned and counteracted similar measures in other countries.
What you need to know
The study of ways to strengthen the pathogenicity of viruses, including their modification, cannot be considered an attempt to create a biological weapon. The evolution of viruses is constantly taking place in nature, and in advance to understand in which direction the disease will develop, means to create a vaccine against it in advance. However, such studies are extremely dangerous - the same United States has ceased to finance them since 2014.
The Western intelligence services agree with the scientific community and do not believe that coronavirus was created artificially, but they consider it quite likely that he was “flowing” from the laboratory in Jun.
Australian intelligence assesses the probability of leakage of only 5%, while the American intelligence services, apparently, prefer this version, writes DT. The United States does not exclude the “natural” infection of the zero patient from a bat on the market in Jun.
Shi Zhengley denied the information that she tried to run to the west with documents on the real state of affairs. She admits that the genome of one of the coronaviruses studied in her laboratory of bats by 96% coincides with the Covid-19 genome, but this is not the same virus.
The main claim of the dossier to China is precisely the misleading of the world community and the concealment of information. Here the rhetoric dossier is tough: we are talking about "a direct demolition of the transparency regime in international relations."
What next?
Trump's threats to strengthen the trade war with China in the election context can translate the U-shaped world depression into L-shaped, writes Bloomberg. The publication of the dossier in the Australian newspaper will be perceived by China as a claim by Australia (whose main trading partner is China) to the role of a shot -arrive in a coronaviral topic and clearly worsen the relations of countries.