Free Pressers noted that soon after Xi’s Feb. 14 comments, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: “Instructions on strengthening bio-security management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel Coronavirus.”
All this seems to indicate that the Chinese government has a very real problem securing its deadly pathogens.
Why does China have a high security, Bio-Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory in Wuhan anyway?
Is it part of a secret Chinese bioweapons research program? Is it related in any way to the novel coronavirus outbreak?
According to Nature, this bio-containment laboratory in Wuhan, built with assistance from France, is only three years old. It was cleared by the Chinese government in 2017 to work with the world’s most dangerous pathogens–BSL-4 labs are built to contain highly infectious and lethal agents such as the Ebola, Nipah and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses, as well as SARS, coronavirus, and pandemic influenza virus.
Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is meant to help Chinese scientists “prepare for and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks,” according to a 2019 report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Nature also notes, that some scientists worry about pathogens escaping, and others are concerned these labs could be part of a covert biological weapons program. The plan to expand this lab into a bigger network of labs only heightens these concerns.
Sara says
Because China is a country not to be trusted. They Are working with horrific diseased all the time for warfare
Paul Plante says
Biological weapons have been around for a long time now, and it is a game we play at along with probably every other “advanced” nation on the earth, as we see from our own history, to wit:
MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce.
It is generally reported to be a successor to the MKULTRA project and to have focused on biological projects including biological warfare agents — specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.
During the first twenty years of its establishment, the CIA engaged in various projects designed to increase U.S. biological and chemical warfare capabilities.
Project MKNAOMI was initiated to provide the CIA with a covert support base to meet its top-secret operational requirements.
The purpose was to establish a robust arsenal within the CIA’s Technical Services Division (TSD) of various lethal and incapacitating materials.
This would enable the TSD to serve as a highly maintained center for the circulation of biological and chemical materials.
VA Patriot says
Wake up people and read the writing on the wall. China is not your friend.
Paul Plante says
Wasn’t that one of the lessons we were supposed to have learned from Korea after the Chinese came south of the Yalu in swarms to kick ass and take names, as opposed to bonding with our Marines up around the Chosin Reservoir and giving them hugs to let the Marines know the high esteem the Chinese invaders held them in – that they are not our friends?
I always thought it was, anyway.
I have never mistaken them for being on our side, now have I ever mistaken us for being on theirs, notwithstanding Dick Nixon going to China to foxtrot with Madam Mao and all that.
So what is it everyone is surprised about?
And yes, Mao did respond to our threat back when, the Quemoy-Matsu era, to use nuclear weapons against China by saying that we could kill millions of them, and he would still have many millions left.
Didn’t anyone hear him?
MJM says
They have one there because they want to. They are building more because they want to. Whether we like it or not we can’t stop them from doing so. What are they going to do with what they learn ? Whatever they want, and we can’t affect it. We don’t like it ? Tough.
In my opinion, it is a really good idea to not listen to their press releases as to what they say they are doing there. They state that their research is for dealing with future outbreaks, but it is obvious they have zero plans to help anyone outside of China. They share nothing. You can state that they are now helping Italy and other countries, but that’s after they infected the whole world with this crap. They are probably just trying to save future trade relations. Personally I think they are also there because they know it’s so bad there and want to find out why for their own future plans.