Bombshell spy dossier claims China lied to the world about coronavirus and killed thousands with attempted cover-up
A BOMBSHELL spy dossier has claimed China lied to the world about coronavirus by covering up the outbreak - which is killing tens of thousands around the world.
A 15-page document, obtained by Australia's , has laid the foundation for a case being created against China for its handling of the deadly disease.
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It has also been revealed that a laboratory in Wuhan, not far from the now infamous wet market, had been studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses.
The dossier, from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies of the , the , and stated that 's secrecy surrounding the virus led to an "assault on international transparency".
It said: "Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20.
"The World Health Organisation does the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in on January 4."
It has been claimed that:
- China denied the virus could be spread between humans during the outbreak's early stages
- The Communist nation then took weeks to admit it could be passed on in this way
- Doctors who spoke out were silenced or "disappeared"
- A lab in Wuhan had been studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses
- China destroyed evidence of the virus in its laboratories
- It refused to send samples to scientists across the globe working on a vaccine
- Beijing imposed travel bans on its own people but told other nations similar restrictions were not necessary
On January 14, weeks after the alleged evidence, the World Health Organization : "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."
The spy dossier also discussed China's silencing or "disappearing" of doctors who tried to speak out about the virus, the destruction of evidence in laboratories and refusing to provide samples to scientists who were working on a vaccine.
The file specifically details that China began censoring news of the virus from December 31.
According to the document, the country deleted terms including "SARS variation," "Wuhan Seafood market" and "Wuhan Unknown Pneumonia" from search engines.
The paper also discusses how China imposed travel bans on its own people but told other countries restrictions on movement were not necessary.
"Millions of people leave Wuhan after the outbreak and before Beijing locks down the city on January 23," the document states.
"Throughout February, Beijing presses the US, , , Australia, Southeast neighbours and others not to protect themselves via travel restrictions, even as the PRC imposes severe restrictions at home."
The Daily Telegraph also revealed how a team of scientists in Wuhan had been studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses.
It is still the scientific consensus that the virus came from a wet market, but the US’s top spy agency confirmed yesterday that it is looking into whether the outbreak may have been caused by an accident in a Wuhan lab.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence acting director Richard Grenell said: “The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.
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"As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to US national security.
"The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
On Thursday, said the World Health Organization and blasted them as a "press agency" for China.
The President has also to find a way to "punish" China for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Beijing censors crack down on virus reports
- On Monday, Chinese police detained two people who contributed to an online archive of censored articles about the coronavirus outbreak, a friend and a family member of one told Reuters.
- The two - Chen Mei and Cai Wei - have been out of contact since April 19, when cops detained them in Beijing, Chen Kun, Chen Mei's brother said.
- Chen Mei, 27, and Cai, who are old friends, were volunteers with a project called Terminus2049, an open-source archive that keeps records of censored articles from Chinese media on Github, a coding platform.
- In recent months, the project has been active in making records of articles on the coronavirus outbreak.
- The articles gathered on Terminus2049 touch on topics that can be seen as sensitive, including when human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus was discovered.
- The archive was among those that kept in circulation a profile report on a Wuhan doctor and whistleblower, Ai Fen, which went viral.
- People translated the report in various forms including into Braille, Morse code and even Klingon - the fictional Star Trek language - in a defiance of the censors.
Trump and his aides have privately discussed stripping China of its "sovereign immunity," aiming to enable the US government or victims to sue China for damages, according to .
Experts have warned that, if successful, the move will likely shatter the already crumbling world economy and break the strained diplomatic relationship between and Beijing.
The option of cancelling the US debt to China has also been floated.
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Covid-19 has devastated the , having killed at least 63,856 .
The country currently has a total of 1,095,023 .
However, 152,324 have recovered from the disease.
The Sun on Sunday says
IF YOU had any doubts about China’s cynical Covid cover-up, the damning Five Eyes spy dossier should end them for good.
The shock 15-page report says there was evidence in early December that the virus could spread from human to human, but China denied it until late January.
Doctors who spoke out were silenced or “disappeared’’ and two-faced authorities shut down travel in their country while telling the world there was no need to.
Drawn up by the secret services of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the report also shames the World Health Organisation (WHO).
China’s version of events was repeated uncritically by WHO, despite alarm bells.
It may be impossible to know how many more people died because of China’s actions.
But if the accusations against it are true, they surely amount to a major crime against humanity.
Beijing’s obsession with secrecy and saving face kept the rest of the world in the dark for far too long.
Our Government must back calls for the full inquiry that other countries are demanding.
The tragic victims of this merciless killer deserve nothing less.