Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Former president Donald Trump said in a statement on 26 November 2021 that he never considered going to war with China.
Trump’s remarks were part of a tirade against Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who told Congress in September that he assured a top Chinese general that the United States was not going to attack China.
“I never had even a thought of going to war with China, other than the war I was winning, which was on TRADE,” Trump said. “I was the only President in decades to not get us into a war—I got us out of wars!”
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Milley’s spokesman, Dave Butler, did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump’s statement on Friday also targeted Bob Woodward, the author of one of the books in which the revelations of Milley’s calls with China were first made.
Milley told the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services in September that he told Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng that he would warn China if the United States was planning an attack. Trump suggested in the statement on Friday that such a call would amount to treason.
Milley told the Armed Services Committee on Sept. 28 that he spoke to Li on Oct. 30, 2020, and Jan. 8, 2021. Eight U.S. officials listened in on the first call and eleven on the second, Milley testified.
“And I told him that we are not going to attack. President Trump has no intent to attack. And I told him that repeatedly, and I told him if there was going to be an attack there will be plenty of communications going back and forth, your intel systems are going to pick it up,” Milley said on 28 September.
“I will probably call you. Everybody will be calling you. We are not going to attack you. Just settle down. It is not going to happen,” Milley added.
Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, who briefly led the Pentagon from late 2020 until January 2021, said he did not authorize the calls between Milley and Li.
Miller said Milley’s actions were “a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the nation’s top military officer.”
Milley told the committee that both calls with his Chinese Communist Party counterpart were coordinated with Miller’s staff “and the interagency.”
“The specific purpose of the October and January calls were generated by concerning intelligence which caused us to believe the Chinese were worried about an attack on them by the United States,” Milley told the senators.
John Ratcliffe, who served as the director of national intelligence during the period when both of the calls took place, refuted Milley’s claim about the “concerning intelligence.”
“There was no concerning intelligence that merited a call to his Chinese counterpart,” Ratcliffe told Fox News after Milley’s testimony in September, adding that he supplied Milley with intelligence.
“The idea that he’d have better or different intelligence, or have concerns about it that he wouldn’t share with me as the president’s principal intelligence adviser, is absurd,” Ratcliffe said.
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Island of Rhesus monkeys in South Carolina exposed as NIAID's source of "excruciating experiments"
Reporter : Matt McGregor, The Epoch Times PREMIUM
A group that investigates taxpayer-funded experiments on animals has disclosed a document exposing the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) “excruciating experiments” on rhesus monkeys.
The monkeys, which are owned by NIAID, are acquired from Morgan Island off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina.
Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy for the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP), told The Epoch Times that the nonprofit taxpayer watchdog group obtained the document in October through the Freedom of Information Act, revealing that the NIAID has spent $13.5 million in taxpayer funding on experiments that involve injecting monkeys with various infectious diseases such as Ebola and the Lassa virus that result in hemorrhaging, pain, brain damage, loss of motor control, and organ failure.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of NIAID, a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH), itself a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“In many of these experiments, Fauci and staff intentionally withhold pain relief, even though these are some of the most excruciating experiments in the federal government,” Goodman said.
WCWP recently exposed the NIAID’s experiments on beagles that involved having sandflies eat the dogs alive, as well as experiments that involved force-feeding 44 beagle puppies an experimental drug before killing and dissecting them.
A federal spending database shows that the Department of Health and Human Services has given Charles River Laboratories $13.5 million out of a potential award amount of $27.5 million since 2018 to breed and maintain the monkeys.
NIAID paid $8.9 million of that $13.5 million.
The island is owned by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and is leased to Charles River Laboratories.
A deeper dive into those separate experiments at NIH led WCWP to discover the source of the monkeys at Morgan Island.
“We started triangulating information about that island with the experiments at the labs, and we found that Fauci’s labs are the single largest supporter of that island,” Goodman said.
In 2020, there were 3,521 monkeys on the island, with 750 born annually.
Between 500 and 600 of the monkeys are shipped to NIH and NIAID laboratories.
The monkeys were shipped from the Caribbean Primate Research Center to the island in 1979.
According to PubMed.gov, the monkeys reestablished their former social groups from the Caribbean research center after being transported to the island.
“Research shows that despite their similarities to us, they are incredibly poor predictors of how vaccines and other drugs are going to act in humans,” Goodman said.
WCWP has exposed six different beagle experiments that Fauci has funded.
In one of the procedures highlighted, NIAID staff performed a “cordectomy,” which involves cutting a dog’s vocal cords so that it can’t bark, howl, or cry during an experiment.
“The reason that the Department of Health and Human Services gives on its website for using beagles is that they are small and docile, meaning they are easy to abuse,” Goodman said.
“White Coats,” Goodman said, “is a reference to those conducting the experiment, and ‘Waste’ is a reference to the horrible return on investment the taxpayers are getting from this type of experimentation that agencies like the NIH admit are incredibly inefficient and rarely improve human health, though the NIH alone continues to spend $20 billion a year on animal experimentation like what’s being done to the monkeys from Morgan Island.”
Dr. Stacy Lopresti-Goodman, a primate expert, psychology professor, and WCWP adviser, said, “Primate experimentation is a cruel and notoriously unreliable way to develop drugs and treatments for humans, and it doesn’t deserve taxpayers’ support.”
Dr. Tiffani Milless, a pathologist and medical adviser to WCWP, said that “infecting nonhuman primates with painful and debilitating illnesses with the goal of curing humans is not just cruel, but it’s incredibly wasteful.”
“The NIH should stop squandering tax dollars on wasteful and cruel primate testing that doctors like me cannot use to actually help people,” Milless said.
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