"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
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"Participant 12" (maybe a soldier at Aldershot). after infection with SC2, over time experienced a substantial number of mutations suggestive of rapid evolution.
Ferdinand de Lesseps's success in building the Suez Canal in 1869 was utterly derailed by the abysmal failure of his subsequent effort to build the Panama Canal due to disease.
Bankruptcy!
800 thousand people had invested their savings in the project!
Good luck using your critical thinking skills to seperate wheat from chaff so that you can decide what is propaganda & what is fact.
Of course the easy options are to dismiss everything as lies or to swallow everything as fact.
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If you are interested in a balanced analysis of the Russian claims and all the detailed evidence presented by Kirillov before his assassination in Moscow, as well as relted topics, then I highly recommend you plough through those threads at your leisure.