The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), some Western scientists sympathetic to China and the obsequious media have expended enormous efforts to convince the public that the COVID-19 pandemic is a naturally-occurring outbreak of disease. Included in that effort are restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on academic research related to the origins of…
China’s own scientists have provided evidence that COVID-19 is man-made During a March 15, 2020 interview, beginning at the 27:40 time point, Dr Ralph Baric, noted coronavirus scientist at the University of North Carolina, said the following when asked about the animal origin of the human COVID-19 pandemic: “As far as I…
A thorough, objective investigation of the true origin of COVID-19 is long overdue. The narrative promoted by China as to the origin of COVID-19 and the one quickly adopted by the scientific establishment and the media has always been that COVID-19, while circulating in a bat population, mutated, acquiring the…
On April 30, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued the following US Intelligence Community statement: “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus…
There is no doubt that COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, but from where did it originate? No one knows. There have been hints. Yet, now, for some reason, some of those hints have disappeared from the debate. In the February 3, 2020 article in the prestigious journal Nature, scientists at…
The coronavirus, COVID-19, which originated in China and is responsible for the global pandemic, has a unique structural feature that none of its closest viral relatives yet identified have, a furin polybasic cleavage site. Cleavage sites similar to that found in COVID-19 are present in some naturally-occurring coronaviruses, but in…
Avian (bird) influenza virus and avian infectious bronchitis virus are coronaviruses, which elicit similar symptoms, are major pathogens long-circulating in Chinese poultry populations and have resulted in great economic losses for China due to respiratory disease and reduced egg production. Avian influenza viruses are capable of infecting humans and multiple outbreaks have occurred in…
On Friday April 17, 2020, during President Trump’s daily press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, a reporter asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a question about the origin of CoVid-19. Q: “Could you address the suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow man-made, possibly…
China has the knowledge and the techniques to manufacture new viruses and animal models to test the ability of those new viruses to infect humans. The question remains – is the Chinese virus, COVID-19, the cause of the global pandemic, a naturally-occurring coronavirus that “jumped” from bats to humans within…
US President Donald Trump’s brief, but substantive, visit to India heralds a renewed US-India partnership designed to address the challenges of the 21st century. It is difficult to overstate the importance of this partnership, one that has the potential of having a profound impact on the geopolitical dynamics. Agreements in…
I am not talking about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a program of infrastructure and resource exploitation projects linked to a transportation network that connects China to the Pakistani ports of Gwadar and Karachi on the Arabian Sea, the flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Beijing’s blueprint…