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China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins
The Associated Press ^ | December 30, 2020 | By DAKE KANG, MARIA CHENG and SAM MCNEIL

Posted on 12/30/2020 4:04:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

MOJIANG, China - Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus.

The area is of intense scientific interest because it may hold clues to the origins of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide. Yet for scientists and journalists, it has become a black hole of no information because of political sensitivity and secrecy.

A bat research team visiting recently managed to take samples but had them confiscated, two people familiar with the matter said. Specialists in coronaviruses have been ordered not to speak to the press. And a team of Associated Press journalists was tailed by plainclothes police in multiple cars who blocked access to roads and sites in late November.

More than a year since the first known person was infected with the coronavirus, an AP investigation shows the Chinese government is strictly controlling all research into its origins, clamping down on some while actively promoting fringe theories that it could have come from outside China.

The government is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to scientists researching the virus’ origins in southern China and affiliated with the military. But it is monitoring their findings and mandating that the publication of any data or research must be approved by a new task force managed by China’s cabinet, under direct orders from President Xi Jinping, according to internal documents obtained by The AP. A rare leak from within the government, the dozens of pages of unpublished documents confirm what many have long suspected: The clampdown comes from the top.

As a result, very little has been made public. Authorities are severely limiting information and impeding cooperation with international scientists.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; pandemic; virus

1 posted on 12/30/2020 4:04:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of they are, can’t let anyone confirm that it came out of the Wuhan lab, yo.....


2 posted on 12/30/2020 4:13:40 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has OJ volunteered, yet to help China hunt for “the Real Killers?”

Ralph Baric and the Bat Lady know the “Origin” of Covid-19.

In a virology Lab, in Wuhan, using US taxpayer money, provided by Fauci.


3 posted on 12/30/2020 4:13:43 AM PST by UNGN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A black hole of information...just like Rat Party Headquarters!
4 posted on 12/30/2020 4:22:02 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: UNGN
Obama, Fauci visiting NIH lab in 2014.

......the “Origins” of Covid-19: a virology Lab, in Wuhan, using US tax dollars, provided by Fauci.....

Obama’s admin okayed Fauci sending $3.7M NIH tax dollars to Wuhan Lab

The BIGGER question is how much China sent back to Boobamba:
<><> donations to his tax-free foundation,
<><> donations to his final resting place (presidential library) in Chicago.....
<><> and so on and so forth.

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REFERENCE---The Obama Foundation held its inaugural summit on October 31, 2017, in Chicago.

According to Obama, he intends for his foundation to be central to many of his post-presidential activities, which he sees as having the potential to be more consequential than his time in the White House.

On September 25, 2018, an IRS report revealed that the Foundation no longer identified any possible mega-donors. In 2018, contributions and in-kind gifts totaled $164.8 million, according to its filed annual report in June 2019— a drop of $67.8 million from the record $232.6 million in 2017.

The President of the Obama Foundation is Adewale Adeyemo, a Nigerian Economist ----one of Obama's former senior economic advisers-----and Deputy US National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs.

5 posted on 12/30/2020 4:56:54 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah ok, it was a bio weapon period China needs to be eliminated from this planet


6 posted on 12/30/2020 5:20:15 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But in other news from AP, China is the model we must follow and join in partnership with them so they can overtake this nation, literally.


7 posted on 12/30/2020 6:31:05 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: cranked

Wuhan Lab created this virus-—Bio Warfare-—nothing else.


8 posted on 12/30/2020 7:20:17 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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Act of war in my books.


9 posted on 12/30/2020 7:47:45 AM PST by cranked
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