"Although assessing China’s military capabilities is notoriously difficult due to the secrecy & opacity its institutions maintain, a combination of historical records, assessments, & studies provide a view of China’s BW programme, this view is unsettling" orfonline.org/expert-speak/a…
An Indian Perspective (Part 1)
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
The Radosavljevic–Belojevic method for outbreak scoring & differentiation shows that the official assumption of its natural origin is questionable and highlights the probability that the pathogen may have been "accidentally" introduced to humans
“The genomic origin of the strain that infected patient zero was a Chinese bat virus that underwent extensive pre-adaptation to humans, including continual transmissibility..
“The open question is how, where, and when such exceptional genomic pre-adaptation took place”
One possibility is that a wild-type virus was 1st propagated repeatedly in human tissue cultures & the resulting spontaneously upgraded virus was then used to experimentally infect monkeys or ferrets—one of which then accidentally infected staff in the lab jns.org/opinion/where-…
An interesting observation
"The WIV has long been routinely supplied with rhesus monkeys from the Macaque Breeding Base in Suizhou City"
The trials were conducted by scientists from Porton Down in Wiltshire. About 3,500 monkeys and guinea pigs were killed after exposure to "plague bombs"
Operation Cauldron, The Stuff of Monkey Nightmares
More Chinese Monkey Research and Breeding Programs to come tomorrow
5 species of primates are used in China for biomedical research
2 species, crab-eating macaque & common marmoset are alien
3 species, pigtail, stumptail & rhesus macaques, are indigenous
Those used for biomedical research are crab-eating & rhesus macaques ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22179…
The following information on monkey breeding centres in China is from 2001.
There have been some changes...
For example, Hubei Topgene Biotechnology, the new supplier to WIV and WIBP was not listed 20 years ago.
Tables in previous tweet are from
Chinese Primate Status and Primate Captive Breeding for Biomedical Research in China
This thread is an investigation of the breeding centres, laboratory research evidence, logistics and locations of possible Biological Warfare research in China using non human primates.
It may lead nowhere or it might lead somewhere, that remains to be determined.
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1. Remote truck drone swarm bombings are here to stay!
The techniques will be improved and nowhere will be safe unless underground.
Questions to consider:
How many panel vans, transit vans and small trucks are there in a big city at any one time?
2. This is a revolution in sabotage tactics
Welcome to the future of air bases!
Without concrete and earth roofed revetments, aircraft are sitting ducks.kyivpost.com/post/53749
3. The "good old days"
"clandestine antiaircraft devices using gallium metal pencils which when applied to aircraft results In destruction due to stress failure at the point of application"
GREAT REVOLT SCHEME. SECRET PLANS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL. BOLSHEVISING BULGARIA. A BALKAN FRONT. SPENDTHRIFT MURDERER. SPENDS AMILLION FRANCS IN FOURTEEN DAYS. MENUS OF LONDON'S ZOO. MR. CHURCHILL'S BUDGET. HAKKAS AND HOKLOS. PITCHED BATTLE AT PING CHAU.
More stories!
CANTON SITUATION. SPORT IN THE FAR EAST. GERMAN DISARMAMENT. BRITISH SILK DUTIES. COTTON SPINNERS. WORKING WEEK DISPUTE NOT YET SETTLED. FATE OF AMUNDSEN. MR. HAMMER IS MAKING PLANS FOR RESCUE. THE SOFIA OUTRAGE. POSITIONS FOR TROTZKY. THE EPSOM DERBY.
In this enlightened year of our Lord 2025 I, a humble observer of mankind’s ceaseless quest for health, find myself much struck by the ingenious practices of the Orient..
🧵2. A Scaly Panacea
...where the pangolin, that scaly denizen of subtropical climes, hath been elevated to a panacea most wondrous.
The Baicao Chinese Medicine compendium, a veritable gospel of herbal wisdom, doth proclaim the virtues of this creature’s scales...
🧵3. Humanity's Salvation?
...harvested with a diligence that would shame the most ardent of alchemists.
I propose, therefore, a modest scheme to amplify this noble tradition, ensuring that the pangolin’s sacrifice might serve the greater good of humanity.
1. What appears wasteful research to you in the present may be of great value to you or others in the future, if it is given the time to develop to its logical end.
Don’t judge the usefulness of your findings too quickly!
2. What appears wasteful or a dead end to you..
May be of immense value to somebody else!
Don’t judge the usefulness:
1. Of other people’s findings based only on your own assessment of them.
2. Of your own findings based only on your own current assessment of them either.
3. What appears wasteful and a dead end to you..
A. May be the raw stuff that new hypotheses and new research directions are born from.
B. Don’t judge the usefulness of your "investigations" until you have given them enough time to surprise you.
-Deliberate release of bioweapon
-Accidental release of bioweapon in development
-Lab accident during genetic engineering
-Lab accident during cell culture
-Lab accident during vaccine development
-Accidental infection that no one knew about
2⃣ WCDC
• Lab worker infected during field animal sampling
• Accident during experimental work
• Accident from exposure to infected waste
• Accident during move to new location
• WCDC gave bat samples to the WIV
3⃣ Virus engineering
•Engineered from RaTG13
•Engineered from pool of bat viruses (Laos)
•Engineered from secret database of bat viruses
•Engineered at UNC & shipped to the WIV
•Engineered hybrid of bat & pangolin viruses🐵
•Synthetic infectious clone engineered in vitro