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NEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH AT CHINESE LAB.

🦠📰 @COVID19Up: Newly released documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing the work of EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory.

The documents were released in connection with ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health. The Intercept is making the full documents available to the public.

One of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlines an ambitious effort to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses and people who work with live animals.

The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed, raising additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that EcoHealth Alliance President, Peter Daszak, has aggressively dismissed.

The bat coronavirus grant provided EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.

The grant proposal acknowledges some of the dangers of such expermients: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”

The grant was initially awarded for a five-year period, from 2014 to 2019. Funding was renewed in 2019 but suspended by the Trump administration in April 2020.

The second grant, “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots of Southeast Asia,” was awarded in August 2020 and extends through 2025. The proposal, written in 2019, often seems prescient, focusing on scaling up and deploying resources in Asia in case of an outbreak of an “emergent infectious disease” and referring to Asia as “this hottest of the EID hotspots.”

Biden blamed China for failing to release critical data, but the U.S. government has also been slow to release information. The Intercept initially requested the proposals in September 2020.

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Over 900 pages of newly released documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, which details, specifically, how U.S.-funded research was being conducted on various types of #coronaviruses at the #Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

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Over 900 pages of newly released documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, which details, specifically, how U.S.-funded research was being conducted on various types of #coronaviruses at the #Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

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China's #ThreeGorgesDam sees a 23-year record high water level. #Landslides strike China in at least three areas, destroying homes and killing several people along the way.

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Taiwan arrested two retired air force officers, reportedly had contacts with Hong Kong businessman and spy for China

According to Taiwan media reports, a retired Air Force major general and a retired lieutenant colonel suspected of breaching the Taiwan National Security Act were arrested. They were accused of involving in a spy ring in Taiwan, which were organised by a businessman from Hong Kong, surnamed Tse, appointed by the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission (Guangzhou division). Tse secretly build up relationships with retired military officers, including these two suspects, for China under the guise of doing business in Taiwan. The Taiwan media described this as “the largest espionage case in the history”.

Taiwan Apple Daily quoted source as saying that the investigation unit found that the Guangzhou branch of Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission sent a Hong Kong businessman surnamed Tse to Taiwan since 2012, under the pretext of business but recruiting crews for China intelligence unit in reality. The businessman contacted Chien Yao-tung and Wei Hsien-yi in 2016 and start to cultivate relationships with active and retired senior military officers. Besides of arranging banquets and gifts, the military officers were also invited to visit Guangdong to meet China officials.

Source: Stand News #Aug19

https://bit.ly/3DPVmN3

#Taiwan #Airforce #MilitaryOfficer #China #Spy #Espionage
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Senator Rand Paul says newly public documents revealing the extent of U.S. funding of coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, show that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci lied during his previous testimony to Congress!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-wuhan-documents-fauci-lied
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❗️Infected Wuhan Bats & Humanized Mice - US-Funded Coronavirus Research in China KNOWING Deadly Risks (Report)

Washington funded studies into coronavirus in bats in Wuhan, long before the pandemic according to documents obtained by the Intercept.

More than 900 pages of material related to the research were published on the company’s website, revealing the research of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization’s work with Chinese partners on coronaviruses - especially in bats and mice.

“In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten – and they kept records of everyone who got bitten,” Alina Chan, a molecular biologist told The Intercept.

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China culture crackdown a sign of 'profound' political change - commentary

China's crackdown on celebrity culture and its moves to rein in giant internet firms are a sign of "profound" political changes under way in the country, a prominent blogger said in a post widely circulated across state media.

The Chinese government has recently taken action against what it has described as "chaotic" online fan club culture, and has also punished celebrities for tax evasion and other offences.

In a wide-ranging series of interventions in the economy, it has also promised to tackle inequality, "excessively high" incomes, soaring property prices and profit-seeking education institutions.

Source: Reuters #Aug31

https://reut.rs/2WvtGMV

#China #Crackdown #Profound #Chaotic
Johnson may block Chinese takeover of UK’s largest computer chip maker

Boris Johnson may block a Chinese-owned company from purchasing the UK’s largest producer of semiconductors, a senior government adviser has suggested, as they warned Beijing was on the brink of initiating a new “cold war”.

Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia recruited by Johnson to advise on post-Brexit trade, said he was heartened by a review being launched into the takeover of Welsh microchip manufacturer Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia and suggested it meant the process could be paused.

Johnson had asked his national security adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, to look into the sale after previously being accused of acquiescing to the deal by not scrutinising it more closely, particularly given the semiconductor industry’s geopolitical prominence.

Source: The Guardian #Jul27

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/27/chinese-takeover-of-uks-largest-computer-chip-maker-may-be-blocked

#Johnson #UK #Chip #ColdWar
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Celebrity (born in Canada, holds Canadian passport but works in China): I hereby renounce my Canadian citizenship because I am Chinese!
Chinese netizen: Took u 40 years to find out ur Chinese?
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#NicholasTse #CCP #China #celebrity #canada #passport #entertainment #meme #cheflemon

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hongkong-celebrities-09072021081634.html