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Pompeo: "There is evidence that the virus is a laboratory in China." Israel today

2020-05-03T15:45:01.443Z


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US Secretary of State Pompeo strongly condemns China's conduct in the Corona crisis

  • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo // Photo: Reuters

  • Laboratory of bats virus experiments in the city of Wuhan // Photo: AFP

  • Chinese soldiers in Beijing // Photo: IP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday attacked the Chinese government and its conduct around the Corona crisis, noting that its country had intelligence indicating that the virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan city. 

In an interview with the American ABC Network, Pompeo said: "The Chinese Communist Party has done everything in its power that the world did not know, at the appropriate time, and there is plenty of evidence. Some of the evidence is visible and the Chinese reports can be seen in the media."

"They left the journalists outside, they made sure to silence the medical people who warned and warned. They did all the things that authoritarian regimes do, this is a classic communist disinformation effort," the secretary of state continued. 

"There is a lot of evidence that the virus originated from a laboratory in the city of Wuhan. The virus has killed tens of thousands of people and thousands of Americans. Me and the president have been very clear on the issue. There will be an American response to be made as we see fit," Pompeo concluded. The Secretary of State declined to state how the U.S. response would look and whether, in accordance with intelligence information he noted, China had deliberately developed and disseminated the virus.

Last week, media outlets in China attacked Pompeo for criticizing Beijing authorities, claiming it was "spreading" a political virus. In the United States, too, there is growing criticism of the Trump administration that uses the verbal confrontation with China as a way to distract the public from its conduct during the Corona crisis. 

"Hiding and destroying evidence" 

China deliberately hid and destroyed evidence of the Corona eruption in its territory, reveals an intelligence report prepared by several Western governments, including the US government and submitted to the country's leaders. The report, part of which is published today by the Australian Daily Telegraph, states that Beijing's government is largely responsible for the outbreak of the Corona virus worldwide and the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

Reportedly, China "jeopardized the citizens of foreign countries" by destroying evidence, silencing doctors and scientists who warned of the virus outbreak and refused to transmit information about the virus's genetic structure until the outbreak was in full swing.

The report suggests that the virus, or a virus very similar to it, was held by Chinese authorities in Wuhan City and that no malfunction in a laboratory or employee infected there is the source of the outbreak in Wuhan City. However, the report does not claim that China developed the corona as a biological weapon or For another reason, or because it was developed in a laboratory in China. 



According to the Australian newspaper, a P4 lab research team in the city of Wuhan discovered a 96 per cent specimen of the corona virus in bovine faeces in Yunnan Province, many months before the onset of the virus. The specimen was transferred to Dr. Xi Zhangli's laboratory in Wuhan City, where he was investigated along with 50 other strains of bats originating from bats. 

Dr. Xi herself expressed confidence, after several tests, that none of the specimens held in her lab were available. 

Source: israelhayom

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