Reporter : Li Yun / Editor: Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/01/a103022179.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus) has ravaged the world for more than a year. Recently, a US media reviewed the ins and outs of the virus origin investigation, pointed out that Xi Jinping strictly controlled related research, issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to military scientists studying the origin of the virus, and stipulated that any research published must be approved. This work of the group is directly ordered by Xi.
According to a report by the Associated Press at the end of 2020, an internal CCP document shows that the Beijing government grants hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to military scientists in the south to study the origin of the virus and closely monitors these research results, any data or the release of research must be approved by the central working group established by Xi Jinping's order.
This is a rare leak by the Chinese Communist government. This dozens of pages of internal documents confirms many people's long-standing suspicions: the high-level instructed to strictly control the origin of the virus investigation.
The Associated Press conducted dozens of interviews with Chinese and foreign scientists and officials, and referred to public documents, leaked e-mails, internal data, and documents from the Chinese Communist Party and the China CDC.
These materials reveal the CCP government's model of secrecy and top-down control. Beijing has politicized the origin of the CCP virus, postponed warnings about the pandemic, hindered information sharing with the World Health Organization, and prevented early testing.
A public health expert who often cooperates with the Chinese Communist Party’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said: They only choose people they can trust and people they can control. The military team and other teams are working hard, but it depends on the results.
The origin of the CCP virus
Scientists initially suspected that the virus came from wild animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, such as the civet cats that are related to the spread of SARS.
In mid-December 2019, Jiang Dafa (transliteration), a Huanan merchant, began to find someone sick. The first is a migrant worker in his 60s. Soon, his friend who played chess with him also fell ill. The third was a seafood seller who died later.
The internal data obtained by the Associated Press of the CCP’s China CDC shows that by 10 and 11 January 2020, researchers will sequence dozens of environmental samples in Wuhan. By late January, the Chinese Communist Party media announced that 33 of the environmental samples had tested positive.
In February, the virus continued to spread rapidly. Subsequently, a paper by two Chinese scientists suggested that the virus may have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory near the market. Later, the paper was withdrawn, and it was suspected that the CCP did so in order to control speech.
CCP denies virus detection in Huanan market
On 24 February 2020, the CCP’s CDC laboratory received a notice ordering not to share any virus-related information. On 2 March 2020, all universities, companies and medical research institutions also received orders not to share any virus-related information.
The order stated that under Xi Jinping's instructions, research exchanges and publications must be carefully planned like a "game of chess", and publicity and public opinion teams must "guide publication." It also warned that publishers without authorization should be held accountable for causing adverse social impact.
In the following months, Liu Jun, a researcher from the China CDC, visited nearly 20 times and collected about 2,000 samples, but none of the contents revealed by these samples was published.
On 25 May, Gao Fu, from the China CDC, was interviewed by China's Phoenix Satellite TV. He said that none of the animal samples in the South China Market had tested positive.
The news surprised scientists. They did not even know that the CCP had collected samples from animals.
Scientists turn their attention to bats but CCP obstructed their investigations in China
As the Huanan Market proved to be a dead end to find the origin of the virus, scientists turned more attention to finding the virus in bats, the possible source of the virus.
However, Shi Zhengli, a bat expert at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has repeatedly denied this theory, and the CCP also does not allow foreign scientists to enter China's Yunnan and Guizhou bat habitats for investigation.
The Associated Press reported that deep in the lush valley of Yunnan, there is an entrance to a mine where there is a bat habitat. These bats carry the virus closest to the CCP virus. This area has aroused great interest in the scientific community.
However, for scientists and journalists, due to political sensitivity, it has become a black hole with no information.
Two people familiar with the matter said that a recently visiting bat research team managed to collect samples but was confiscated. CCP virus experts were ordered not to speak to the media. When the Associated Press team was about to go in late November, plainclothes police drove multiple cars to track, and blocked roads and stations.
In December, the BBC team frequently encountered roadblocks on their way to Yunnan to investigate. Plainclothes policemen and officials followed all the way in unmarked vehicles. The BBC team had to give up and were forced to return to the airport.
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