Current Events > China: U.S. Army created COVID

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/06/china/china-covid-origin-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

As Beijing grapples with a worsening outbreak of the Delta variant, an outlandish conspiracy theory linking the origin of the coronavirus to the United States military has gained renewed traction in China.

The wholly unfounded theory, which claims the virus may have been leaked from a US Army lab, has been repeatedly promoted by Chinese officials and state media since March last year.

But over the past week, Beijing has doubled down on the conspiracy, mobilizing its diplomats and vast propaganda apparatus to call for a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The campaign comes after Beijing rejected WHO's proposal for a second-phase probe into the origins of Covid-19 last month. The study would include audits of laboratories and markets in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic. That has drawn the ire of Beijing, with a top Chinese health official accusing WHO of "disregarding common sense and defying science."

WHO released an initial report from its Covid origins study in China in March, concluding the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely." But a growing number of Western nations and scientists have questioned the thoroughness of the original report, accusing China of "withholding access to complete, original data and samples."

In late May, US President Joe Biden ordered American intelligence agencies to redouble efforts to look into how the coronavirus originated, including the possibility it emerged from a lab accident.

The intelligence community was required to report back to Biden in 90 days. Since then, no smoking gun has emerged to support the lab leak theory, and many scientists continue to believe the virus is more likely to have jumped naturally from animals to humans. For now, senior intelligence officials say they are genuinely split between the two theories.
Beijing has emphatically rejected the idea the coronavirus could have been leaked from a lab in Wuhan, alleging that Washington is attempting to politicize its origins. And yet at the same time, it is also aggressively pushing a counter-lab leak conspiracy theory without any scientific evidence.

Last month, the state-run Global Times started a campaign calling for people to sign an open letter to WHO demanding an investigation into the Fort Detrick lab. The letter which only requires a single click online to "sign" has since gathered 25 million "signatures."

At a news conference last week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called for WHO to investigate both the Fort Detrick lab and a laboratory at the University of North Carolina, helmed by leading US coronavirus expert Ralph Baric.

Zhao also suggested American military athletes who attended the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019 could have brought the coronavirus into China reiterating a baseless claim he made on Twitter in March 2020.

China's state broadcaster CCTV, meanwhile, aired a 30-minute report this week titled the "dark inside story of Fort Detrick." On Weibo, China's heavily censored version of Twitter, a hashtag related to the report was the top trending topic on Tuesday morning. It has since been viewed 420 million times.

On social media, some government and state media accounts promoted yet another groundless theory from an obscure Italian tabloid, which alleged the US military had spread the coronavirus to Italy through a blood donation program. "Damning evidence! The coronavirus entered Europe from Fort Detrick via a US army blood donation program," read the headline of a widely read story posted by the Communist Youth League, the youth branch of China's ruling Communist Party.

The concerted propaganda push has further fanned nationalist fury against the US. Some Chinese internet users have accused the US of being "shameless," while increasing numbers have taken to referring to Covid as the "US virus" a dig at the term "China virus" repeatedly used by former US President Donald Trump, who lashed out at Beijing as his administration struggled to contain surging cases and deaths in America.

Beijing's renewed focus on Fort Detrick comes amid the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant across China. Since July 20th, the spiraling outbreak the worst in more than a year has infected more than 500 people in dozens of cities, placing millions of residents under lockdowns and triggering mass travel restrictions.

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so they first blamed it on African immigrants, and now it's the US.

smh...

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what will be Sleepy Joe's response?

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It's China, they're high on Pooh's honey so they'll believe it.

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The only people who hate America more than the Chinese government is America itself

If this was true, wed be all over it like multi on grain

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When the U.S. traces COVIDs origin to China, it is fact. When China traces COVIDs origin to the U.S., its Alex Jones. Thats just science, baby.

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I wouldn't even be surprised if this was some failed US undercover experiment that we're covering up.

But probably not this time.

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if us gov got nothing to hide then just let who investigate their base.

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cool

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Fuck the ccp and their shills

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I keep hearing about this, people say it started in a North Carolina lab

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I knew trump was illuminati
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Covid was created by Heinz in an attempt to bring back green ketchup by the year 2022.

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Covid was created by toilet paper manufacturers to generate demand in lockdown.

Pretty sure it came from china.
The slums in china are third world rate, and they're very close to large cities in china. Slaughtered animals are sold in various wet shops across china... Hell the animals kept in captivity are mistreated and housed in very unsanitary conditions...

How the literal fuck could the who wholeheartedly believe that the disease didn't come from china when diseases like these have been an ongoing issue for decades

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Trelve posted...

Covid was created by toilet paper manufacturers to generate demand in lockdown.

Big TP.

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This honestly makes me more likely to believe it came from China. Projection is a tool of pretty much every first world government at this point; but the timing of a statement like this comes from a government who is perhaps less well practiced in it's proper usage.

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Homeless_Waifu posted...

Pretty sure it came from china.
The slums in china are third world rate, and they're very close to large cities in china. Slaughtered animals are sold in various wet shops across china... Hell the animals kept in captivity are mistreated and housed in very unsanitary conditions...

How the literal fuck could the who wholeheartedly believe that the disease didn't come from china when diseases like these have been an ongoing issue for decades

A. I lived in Wuhan when this happened. The conditions there aren't usually like you are describing. Yes there are places like that all around China, but Wuhan is pretty modern overall. The types of conditions you are describing are usually outside of major cities.

B. The WHO does think it came from China, they want to do a second probe there but the Chinese government doesn't want them to, because they really want to push the it didn't come from here narrative even though no rational person believes it. Nationalism is like a religion, their belief in Chinese supremacy allows them to ignore or dismiss anything bad and the government is all in on increasing and feeding nationalist sentiment.

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Homeless_Waifu posted...

Pretty sure it came from china.
The slums in china are third world rate, and they're very close to large cities in china. Slaughtered animals are sold in various wet shops across china... Hell the animals kept in captivity are mistreated and housed in very unsanitary conditions...

How the literal fuck could the who wholeheartedly believe that the disease didn't come from china when diseases like these have been an ongoing issue for decades

Everyone, including WHO, knows the virus originated in China. Some people are just debating how it originated.

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ssjevot posted...

Nationalism is like a religion

This, the CCP must appear infallible in order to maintain control.

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Shablagoo posted...

When the U.S. traces COVIDs origin to China, it is fact. When China traces COVIDs origin to the U.S., its Alex Jones. Thats just science, baby.

Another hot take on China from CEs resident supporter of genocide

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Shablagoo posted...

When the U.S. traces COVIDs origin to China, it is fact. When China traces COVIDs origin to the U.S., its Alex Jones. Thats just science, baby.

The pandemic itself started in China, so it is more likely the virus came from there than it is that the virus escaped a lab in the US, made its way to china and caused a pandemic.

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The only country that probably believes this is North Korea

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Irony posted...

The only country that probably believes this is North Korea

Like all conspiracy theories driven by the internet, it will spread like a virus. Fenris, Atombender and Shabby will begin posting updates to the conspiracy theory any day soon.

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Shablagoo posted...

When the U.S. traces COVIDs origin to China, it is fact. When China traces COVIDs origin to the U.S., its Alex Jones. Thats just science, baby.

hahaha of course shabbie here would take chinas side.

you better be earning top remnebi for this kind of shitposts

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Does the US have bases in China?

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Teh_Dr_Phil posted...

Another hot take on China from CEs resident supporter of genocide

and now the Shablagoo circle begins :

1 he says he didnt deny a genocide
2 people post the screenshots where he does
3 he ignores those posts and ignores the point
4 maybe he leaves the topic for a while and comes back later

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IfGodCouldDie posted...

Does the US have bases in China?

Yes but all of your base are belong to us

That is actually true as the us has one base I hear.

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Mistere Man posted...

Yes but all of your base are belong to us

That is actually true as the us has one base I hear.

LMAO. +1 at the highlighted.

The U.S. has no bases in China. You heard wrong.

Please spare us the "people are saying" ; "I hear" and "many people" bullshit.

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Chinese government is sounding a lot like a CEman right now.


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It would be a better world without the chinese government

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uwnim posted...

The pandemic itself started in China

No real proof of that, as they discovered there were cases in Europe in the Fall of 2019. Regardless, it shouldnt even matter where it came from as there are labs all over the world which deal with these viruses. I wish U.S. and China could just stop bickering and come together.

Stallion_Prime posted...

It would be a better world without the chinese government

Completely inaccurate.

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limp-bizkit-89 posted...

and now the Shablagoo circle begins :

1 he says he didnt deny a genocide
2 people post the screenshots where he does
3 he ignores those posts and ignores the point
4 maybe he leaves the topic for a while and comes back later

update - the shab cycle has begun


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If the U.S. Army were to create a form of biological/chemical warfare, wouldn't they be more likely to use it on the Middle East? Like, wipe out 60% of Afghanistan's population and set up a permanent residency? I know this is bullshit, but still...

It really is an act of vanity. Both from the people who claim that China is out to get the U.S. and the people who claim the U.S. is out to get China.

LostForest posted...

Chinese government is sounding a lot like a CEman right now.

He's in this topic right now

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Stop the blaming and work on a cure

g0ldie posted...

so they first blamed it on African immigrants, and now it's the US.

smh...

They've actually tried to blame a whole bunch of people. At one point it was the US military, then they tried to claim it originated from italy, then they blamed African migrants, and now I guess they're back to the US military.

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brestugo posted...

LMAO. +1 at the highlighted.

The U.S. has no bases in China. You heard wrong.

Please spare us the "people are saying" ; "I hear" and "many people" bullshit.

You are correct I am very sorry I misread the info on an internet search on if the us had any bases in China. It was actually saying China has one base in some country, and not that the us has one in China. My brain mixed it up, and again I am very sorry for my confusion .

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xXfireglzXx posted...

This honestly makes me more likely to believe it came from China. Projection is a tool of pretty much every first world government at this point; but the timing of a statement like this comes from a government who is perhaps less well practiced in it's proper usage.

This isn't really projection as much as it is whole fucking superpower countries with nukes having a "no u" argument.

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The USA sucks so much it wouldn't surprise me. If the virus were Chinese it would have "started" in the USA.

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Wuhan lab

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China still claims they have only had 4600 COVID deaths too, smh

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

China still claims they have only had 4600 COVID deaths too, smh

There is no covid in ba sing se

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there is no xenophobic propaganda in u.s.a.

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Shablagoo posted...

there is no xenophobic propaganda in u.s.a.

there is no genocide denial in shablagoos posting history /s

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

The only people who hate America more than the Chinese government is America itself

If this was true, wed be all over it like multi on grain

Yeah, I can see that.

If any Republican was directly involved in what the CCP is saying, Democrats would be tripping over themselves to bash them publicly. The reverse is also true, as in the Repubs bashing Dems if Dems were involved.

I dont trust much, but I do trust the USAs two-party mutual animosity far more than I trust that the CCP would ever acknowledge any wrongdoing on their part, like ever.

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From experience the U.S. Army is not capable of pulling off something so coordinated.

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china can point fingers all they like... but it sure as hell didn't originate from the US.

still think it was a lab incident or infected animal to animal transmission.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

I dont trust much, but I do trust the USAs two-party mutual animosity far more than I trust that the CCP would ever acknowledge any wrongdoing on their part, like ever.

how come?

modena posted...

From experience the U.S. Army is not capable of pulling off something so coordinated.

coordination of inadvertently leaking a virus into the public? what?

kingdrake2 posted...

china can point fingers all they like

and so can the u.s.

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