In this @nytimes "interview" with Wuhan Institute Virology scientist Shi Zhengli, she just repeats the usual CCP propaganda while ignoring all questions about her complete lack of transparency or accountability. Zero new information. nytimes.com/2021/06/14/wor…
@nytimes There should be a section of every one of her interviews that mentions that any scientist or doctor who didn't toe the CCP party propaganda line on the COVID story in public got detained or disappeared. She has no ability to speak independently, it's sad but true.
What the CCP propaganda she regurgitates tells us is that the Chinese government is calling the Biden administration liars on several aspects of the COVID origin story, including about the sick researchers and the work they were doing. Both governments can't be telling the truth.
What's significant about the article is merely fact that the CCP would even trot out Dr. Shi for an "email interview" with the New York Times to tell investigators to pound sand and they won't ever cooperate. They are feeling the heat and trying to scare the Biden team off.
Blinken's comments Sunday on various shows about this, punting to the WHO "Phase 2" investigation and refusing to signal pressure, are especially unhelpful at this moment. There has to be a real investigation, led by the US government, whether the CCP likes it or not. Full stop.

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13 Jun
Biden points out that the Chinese labs have zero transparency, which is a huge problem regardless of whether COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab. He also says we need to find out if it leaked from a lab.
.@SecBlinken says on @FaceTheNation the WHO must be able to move forward “with China cooperating” on a Phase 2 report looking at the coronavirus origin. That’s not serious. The WHO has already shown its impotence. If Biden punts to the WHO, that would be negligence.
.@jdickerson points out Beijing has already said it won’t cooperate with the WHO on investigating the Wuhan labs. Blinken says “China has to cooperate with that” but has zero answers for what the US would do to bring pressure. All talk, no action.
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.@SecBlinken on the Nord Stream II pipeline: "The reality is the physical completion of the pipeline is pretty much a done deal." Says we don't want to alienate allies for no gain.
@HouseForeignGOP .@SecBlinken on suspected directed energy attacks on US diplomats: “We do not know what caused these incidents. We do not know who, if anyone, was responsible, state actor or otherwise.” @SenatorCollins doesn't like the "if anyone" part.
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NEW: Biden’s announcement is the beginning, not the end, of a real covid origin investigation washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… by me @PostOpinions
Biden took an important but limited step toward a genuine investigation into the origins of covid-19... But this is just one aspect of a growing U.S. government and congressional effort to finally try to get to the bottom of how the pandemic started. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
“We are not saying that in 90 days we will have an answer or the answer, we’re saying in 90 days we are going to have an update, and then we will see where we go from there,” a senior administration official told me.

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26 May
New: Biden is passing the buck on the covid origin investigation washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… by me @PostOpinions
"The U.S. government is thwarting congressional inquiries while passing the buck to the World Health Organization, which is a recipe for delay and probable failure. This neglect further endangers our national security and public health."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Of course everyone shares the “desire” to solve the covid origin question; that’s not the issue. The question is whether the Biden administration is actually going to do what it can to investigate. So far it seems the Biden team is all talk, no action.

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24 May
Psaki said the Biden admin is "now hopeful the WHO can move into a more transparent Phase 2 investigation." Hope is not a strategy. The Biden administration is passing the buck. The WHO already failed.
Psaki repeatedly ignored the crucial question: At what point does the United States start its own origin investigation instead of calling for someone else to do it, which clearly isn't working?
How can Psaki say the families of the dead deserve answers and then say the United States is leaving it to the WHO to find those answers after 18 months of WHO mess and failure? This is the crucial disconnect of the Biden administration. If you care, take the lead. Now. Please.
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Suffice to say, the US intelligence community doesn’t know much at all, there’s a gap, they weren’t watching these labs. That doesn’t mean the lab leak theory is any less plausible. It just means we need a new, independent investigation into the labs.
The question the intelligence community (and the Biden) administration should be able to answer is: what were the sick researchers working on? Was it bat coronaviruses that infect humans? That would be relevant to me. Also, where are they now? Are they OK?
And why is the Biden administration leaving it to tiny leaks from the intelligence community, which only sow confusion. It’s irresponsible. @SecBlinken and @jakejsullivan should declassify and release the Jan 15 statement underlying evidence now, in the interest of public health.
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