.@RepMcCaul: “It is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early Sept 2019... When they realized what happened, CCP officials and scientists at the WIV began frantically covering up the leak. … But their coverup was too late..." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
.@HouseForeignGOP: “The preponderance of evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory sometime prior to September 12, 2019." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
“We have uncovered strong evidence that suggests @PeterDaszak is the public face of a CCP disinformation campaign designed to suppress public discussion about a potential lab leak,” the @HouseForeignGOP report states.
Without investigating the Wuhan labs and all U.S. collaboration with them, there’s no way to claim we have done our best to learn how the pandemic started, so we can prevent the next one.
It doesn’t matter which “gain of function” definition you prefer... NIH was collaborating on risky research with a Chinese lab that has zero transparency and zero accountability during a crisis — and no one in a position of power addressed that risk.
Fauci is arguing the system worked. It didn’t. Even if the lab leak theory isn’t true, what’s clear is that we need more oversight of this risky research, both in the United States and in China.
It’s bad enough Beijing is forcing Covax to pay for China’s subpar shots. The worst part is that U.S. taxpayers are effectively financing Beijing’s scheme.
.@SenatorRisch said the Covax contract to buy subpar Chinese vaccines is "appalling" and noted "the irony that China has contributed nothing to Covax and yet now stands to profit from it, when indeed, they started this whole mess in the first place.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@washingtonpost In Oct 2019, 9,000 international athletes from more than 100 countries traveled to the Wuhan Military World Games — and many of them later got sick with covid-19-like symptoms. But there has never been a real investigation... washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Nailing down the timeline of the pandemic’s origin is a crucial task. The United States needs to do its best to figure it out, lawmakers are now saying, regardless of where the data leads.
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.
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.
.@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.