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Chinese Ambassador Repeats Conspiracy Theory That Pandemic May Have Originated in the United States
Epoch Times ^ | 02/08/2021 | Frank Fang

Posted on 02/08/2021 7:53:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind

China’s ambassador to the United States has renewed the Beijing regime’s conspiracy theory that the CCP virus may have originated in the United States.

Cui Tiankai, in an interview with CNN that aired on Feb. 7, was asked if World Health Organization (WHO) experts who are currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan investigating the origin of the virus, would be granted “full access to China.”

“They are already in Wuhan. They have been in Wuhan for quite a few days,” Cui said. “My question is, will they be allowed to come here [to the United States] to do the same thing?”

Cui also brushed aside theories that the virus may have originated from either a so-called wet market or a laboratory in Wuhan.

“I think when people make accusations, they have to prove these accusations,” he said.

The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, originated in Wuhan, although researchers worldwide are still unclear on exactly when and how the virus first emerged.

Last month, the U.S. State Department said it “had reason to believe” several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-19-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019. The suggestion contradicted a claim by a researcher at the institute who said there was “zero infection” among lab staff and students.

This isn’t the first time China has sought to blame the United States for causing the pandemic. In March last year, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused the U.S. Army of bringing the virus to Wuhan when participating in a military sports event.

On Jan. 18, Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, also suggested that WHO experts should “conduct origin-tracing” in the United States. Beijing also has tried to pin the blame for the pandemic on other countries, including Italy and India.

At a Feb. 5 daily briefing, Wang Wenbin, another spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, suggested that “relevant parties” should invite WHO experts to their countries for an “origin-tracing study.”

In the same CNN interview, Cui also denounced a recent British Broadcasting Corp. report about the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, saying that its sources were “untrustworthy.” The broadcaster had reported that Chinese men engaged in mass rape, sexual abuse, and torture of Uyghur women detained inside internment camps in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, based on interviews with several former detainees and a guard.

Beijing has detained more than 1 million ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz people, in these camps; most of them practice Islam. Beijing claims these camps are “vocational training centers.”

“I even visited some of the vocational training centers. They are just like a campus. Not a labor camp, but campus,” Cui said.

The Washington-based nonprofit Campaign for Uyghurs, in a statement following the BBC report, said, “We hope that leaders and individuals across the world will sit with this painful reality, and search deep in your conscience to respond.”

Ziba Murat, a senior researcher for the organization, said on Twitter: “As a daughter of a #Uyghur doctor who is imprisoned in one of those camps, & as a woman, this is extremely painful to read. Anyone who still thinks this is OK and bowing to #China AND turning their back on #Uyghurs, is equally complicit.” Murat is the daughter of missing Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman told Reuters that the BBC report was disturbing and said China should allow “immediate and independent investigations by international observers.”

In January, then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the Chinese regime’s persecution of Uyghurs and other majority-Muslim ethnic minorities as genocide and “crimes against humanity.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biowarfare; china; coronavirus; origins; pandemic; xi
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1 posted on 02/08/2021 7:53:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Has Xiden agreed with him yet?


2 posted on 02/08/2021 7:55:07 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Beware the media industrial complex )
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s the Chinese word for ‘bullshit’???


3 posted on 02/08/2021 7:56:32 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("Corn Pop was a bad dude. He ran a bunch of bad boys.")
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To: Jamestown1630

I don’t know that big was slinging a lot of it.🐂💩


4 posted on 02/08/2021 7:57:48 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I wouldn’t put it past President Le Petomane....


5 posted on 02/08/2021 7:58:21 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jamestown1630

Same as the Mandarin for “anal swab.” Say, whatever happened to the promised anal swabs anyway? They were all the rage last week.


6 posted on 02/08/2021 7:58:49 PM PST by Blurb2350
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To: BiteYourSelf

That’s supposed to be guy not big.
Durn auto correct.


7 posted on 02/08/2021 7:59:08 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Hmm...well...maybe something got lost in translation. If the chink meant that the US “funded” the Wuhan virus, he likely is correct!


8 posted on 02/08/2021 8:01:38 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: Blurb2350

they were recalled because they were a choking hazard for some folks.


9 posted on 02/08/2021 8:02:28 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind

......... Crazy Uncle Joe will now probably demand a Special investigation into how Trump released the Virus onto the world .... Nancy and Maxine will then demand that Trump be Impeached .... Again ....


10 posted on 02/08/2021 8:03:59 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: SeekAndFind

Did you know that it’s obvious when communists lie? No, it’s not that looking to a side thing.

Their lips are moving ... that’s how you know they’re lying.


11 posted on 02/08/2021 8:05:28 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Jamestown1630; exDemMom

Who ya gonna believe, CCP or Epoch Times ??

It’s natural of course.


12 posted on 02/08/2021 8:06:20 PM PST by A strike ( McConnell and Pence to Gitmo. Barr and Fauxi to Florence supermax. Roberts to Terre Haute.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And sent to China from Amazon to be distributed all over the world.


13 posted on 02/08/2021 8:06:42 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Jamestown1630

RE: What’s the Chinese word for ‘bullshit’???

I hear the Chinese use the word FEI HUA a lot. And that’s just being polite. But if they want to use a term that is similar in vulgarity, they don’t use Bull, but dog, as in “Dogshit”.


14 posted on 02/08/2021 8:06:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, why that is just a bunch of bullcrap. It originated from Wuhan, China, and from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market 武汉华南海鲜批发市场, (which the WTO inspected two days ago and found bat droppings and whatnot). COVID was then exacerbated to the levels of massive deaths by complete incompetence and lack of leadership and a unified national strategy based on solid science, in the United States. But as far as the origin is concerned, it is China.


15 posted on 02/08/2021 8:07:14 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (House lost. Check. Senate lost. Check. White House lost. Check. Twice Impeached. Check. WINNING!)
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To: SeekAndFind

these slopes have a lot of nerve


16 posted on 02/08/2021 8:10:20 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: SeekAndFind

Communist Purge Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

Fine example...

17 posted on 02/08/2021 8:11:00 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. They created it under contract to Dr Fauci, then loaded up some planes with infected people to spread around and give the democraps an excuse for mail in fraudulent votes. Yep. Mission accomplished. The Manchurian candidate got in and Xi has him on a short leash.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 8:12:12 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: Jamestown1630

it’s not China, but when I lived in japan, it seemed like BS was a universal term


19 posted on 02/08/2021 8:13:33 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: AmericanInTokyo

There’s another theory which involves Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which if true, will show a US connection.

See here:

https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-studying-coronavirus/

TITLE: Dr. Fauci backed funding for controversial Wuhan lab studying origin of coronavirus

(EXCERPT):

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the coronavirus task force, had previously backed funding for a controversial lab in Wuhan, China, that has been studying the coronavirus in bats, reports said.

Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had shelled out a total of $7.4 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab — which has become the focus of theories about the origin of COVID-19, according to Newsweek.

The National Institutes of Health, which oversees the NIAID, shut down all funding to the lab last week.

“At this time, NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities,” a deputy director at the agency wrote in a letter obtained by Politico.

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In other words, In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.

Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.

SARS-CoV-2 , the virus now causing a global pandemic, is believed to have originated in bats. U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab.

So, the virus might not have originated in the USA but from the Wuhan Labs, but there *IS* a US connection to it - We provided MONEY for the research.

What the intent was one can only guess.


20 posted on 02/08/2021 8:13:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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