#Newspaper

Adviser to Hong Kong on Coronavirus Pulls Controversial Column, Apologizes

//An adviser to the Hong Kong government has withdrawn a column he co-authored in which he said it was acceptable to refer to the coronavirus as the "Wuhan coronavirus" and there was no evidence to support allegations the disease came from the United States.

//Yuen Kwok-yung, a leading microbiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the University of Hong Kong, also described the new coronavirus as a product of China's "poor quality culture" of eating wild animals.

//Yuen’s decision late on Wednesday to retract the article from the website of the newspaper Ming Pao sparked a flurry of debate on social media, where some people said it raised questions over freedom of speech in academia in the Chinese-ruled city.

//Yuen apologised and said he did not want to become embroiled in politics.

//“The expression in the article was inappropriate, wordings were even inaccurate, it's not the original intention. (We) hope the outside world does not involve us in politics and saves us a space for research,"

Source: Reuters
https://nyti.ms/33zfqSm

Further reading
Hong Kong Experts: Wuhan Coronavirus originated from China is an "outcome of Chinese bad habits"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18658

#YuenKwokyung #FreedomOfSpeech #Cersorship #Kowtow #VirusOrigin

Full Translation of Yuen Kwok-yung’s Column
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18857

#OpinionArticle #YuenKwokYung

Outbreak in Wuhan shows that lessons from seventeen years ago are forgotten - David Lung and Yuen Kwok-yung, University of Hong Kong

//As a matter of fact, the disease is named by the WHO and the virus is named by the ICTV; the common name is purely a customary matter and suffices to serves it purpose as long as it is simple and clear. The official names of COVID-19 for the disease, or SARS-CoV-2 for the virus, must be used in scientific and academic discourse. However, the simplicity of the popular designations "Wuhan Coronavirus" and "Wuhan Pneumonia" are far more conducive to daily communication and conversations in the media.

//Seventeen years later, wild animal markets have instead grown unabashed, in flagrant violation of the law. The Chinese people have forgotten the lessons of SARS in their entirety. The glaring appearance of live wild animal markets in city centers, and the egregious acts of selling, cooking, and eating these wild animals, constitute a stunning and blatant disregard for the laws.

//Internet conspiracies of an U.S. origin of the virus is not supported by facts, and only serves to mislead the public.

//The Wuhan Coronavirus is a product of inferior Chinese culture -- the culture of recklessly catching and eating wild animals, and treating animals inhumanely, with an utter disrespect and disregard of lives. This inferior culture of the Chinese people -- specifically the consumption of wild animals to satiate themselves -- is the true origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus. If these habits and attitudes remain in place, SARS 3.0 will certainly happen in a matter of a decade or so.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Outbreak-in-Wuhan-shows-that-lessons-from-seventeen-years-ago-are-forgotten---David-Lung-and-Yuen-Kwok-yung-University-of-Hong-K-03-21

Translation by scientisthk2usa
https://bit.ly/2QAFo2x

Another translation on the internet:
https://telegra.ph/18-Mar-David-Christopher-Lung-Yuen-Kwok-yung-Pandemic-Originated-from-Wuhan-Lesson-from-17-Years-Ago-Forsaken-03-21

#VirusOrigin #ChineseCulture #Conspiracy #WuhanPneumonia #NameOfVirus

#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

How to play this poker game

(15 Mar) The Wuhan pneumonia is globalized. Even the epidemic may subside when warm weather returns, the world will still be disconnected with China and enter an era of "Post Made in China".

It is not the epidemic that is scary, but the habit of how the Chinese government and the Chinese conceal and lie about everything. The Chinese government and its people think they are always right - all faults are on the U.S. side which is the leader of the West. The world has experienced this, and the global pandemic has been confirmed and declared. Where will all the people, except the Chinese, go? This is a very serious problem.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/How-to-play-this-poker-game-03-22

Image: 地瓜熊老六
Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/2U8Ln0K

#Coronavirus #Mulan #ChinaThreat #VirusOrigin

#FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
Script: Yes I have used inappropriate words, I now announce to withdraw the column, I apologize.

Words on the newspaper:
Pandemic Because of Wuhan US, Lesson Learnt 17 years ago Forgotten Entirely

Source: hellowong

Further reading:
Adviser to Hong Kong on Coronavirus Pulls Controversial Column, Apologizes
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18855

#WhiteTerror #VirusOrigin

#NetizensVoice

CCP’s script:

//1. Where is the origin of this coronavirus pandemic?
Fort Detrick in America, the largest base for biological weapons

2. What is the source of origin of the virus?
SARS + HIV + others

3. Is the virus naturally occurring or artificially made?
Artificially edited and synthesized

4. Who were involved in the planning, research and experimentation of the virus?
Both American and Chinese teams

5. Was the virus released on purpose or by accident?
Leaked, infected, transmitted and widespread by accident //

Editor’s Note: The Chinese officials and state media shifted blame to the US for the coronavirus pandemic. The incident started with China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, who accused the US Army for bringing the epidemic to Wuhan on Twitter, without any proof. While the world is busy fighting against the coronavirus, China took advantage of the situation and started a disinformation campaign to blame that the US Army has introduced the virus. Chinese medical leaders, ambassadors, spokespersons and media joined the campaign, along with thousands of posts on Chinese social media echoing this false accusation.

The credibility of the source in the attached news article is questionable, as it is written by an Asian UFO society. And the webpage no longer exists

Source:
http://news.wenweipo.com/2020/03/21/IN2003210009.htm

#ChinesePropaganda #VirusOrigin #US #Coronavirus #ZhaoLijian

#Investigation #SimonShen

China uses an Italian doctor’s speech to propaganda

(25 Mar) A few days ago, Chinese official media, WeChat, and Hong Kong blue media propagated overwhelmingly, "Wuhan pneumonia originates from Italy." The only source is to quote a sentence from an Italian doctor Giuseppe Remuzzi interviewed by the American radio station, and then take it out of context. We explained it yesterday.

A fellow protestor sent an email to Dr Remuzzi to inquire about the truth. From the Italian expert's reply below, we could clearly know his original intention: Not only affirmed that Wuhan pneumonia originated in Wuhan, but he suspected that as early as the end of October, Wuhan pneumonia infection in Wuhan might has appeared, but the Chinese government didn’t announced it. During this period, a large number of Chinese people may have come to Italy from Wuhan, which caused some suspicious cases in Italy. Because all information from China was not transparent, the epidemic was out of control. The whole message is completely contrary to the Chinese official media's propaganda. This clearly showing what fake news is.

Source: Simon Shen’s Facebook
https://bit.ly/2wCxIGe

#ChinesePropaganda #GiuseppeRemuzzi #VirusOrigin #Italy #HongKongProtestors

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#NetizensVoice

(Absolutely shameless!) The CCP's mouthpiece is working at full capacity: "Before the outbreak in China, Covid-19 might have already begun spreading in Italy."

The Global Times stated that experts of a well-known medical institution in Italy found that as early as November and December last year, unknown pneumonia that highly resembles Covid-19 might have occurred in Italy.

Numerous of “Little Pink” (people who support and/or embrace the CCP) then left messages saying "it turns out that the United States was the culprit by spreading the virus and it has nothing to do with China", "Will Italy apologize to China?"

This is why China is disgraceful. It is clear that the Wuhan Coronavirus invaded the whole world but China kept pointing its finger to other countries and lied about the truth!

This fully reflects what a "Chinese virus" really is!

Image: Global Times Weibo
https://m.weibo.cn/status/4484967335326655

Source: 華爾街狠人 Facebook, (21-Mar)
shorturl.at/jpJ18

Further reading:
China uses an Italian doctor’s speech to propaganda
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18972

#ChinesePropaganda #VirusOrigin #Italy #Coronavirus #ChinaLiedPeopleDied #GlobalTimes

#Newspaper #ChinesePropaganda
Chinese Propaganda: Virus Originates from Europe or US? 1/2

On 29 Jan, when Italy detected and isolated its first corona virus cases – two Chinese tourists, 66 & 67 years old couple from Hubei, felt sick at hotel in Rome on 30 Jan and were sent to local hospital to diagnose and receive treatment. Until a 38 years old Italian was confirmed with corona virus in the north of Italy, the country realized the severity of the epidemic and became one of the world’s first to cut transport links with China.

Professor Giuseppe Remuzzi, Director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, said in an interview last week that local doctors 'remember having seen very strange pneumonias [sic], very severe, particularly among old people, in December and even in November.'

Beijing is now rejecting the widely held assessment that the city of Wuhan is the birthplace of the global outbreak, Chinese media outlets have linked the origin of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy after Professor Remuzzi’s statement.

Later, the professor said Beijing’s attempts to twist his words to suggest the coronavirus originated in Italy was a textbook example of “propaganda”. He told the American news organisation NPR: '(My statement) means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.'

Source: Apple Daily #Mar24

Further reading:
How Italy became the ground zero of Europe’s coronavirus crisis
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-italy
The CCP's mouthpiece is working at full capacity
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18990

#VirusOrigin

#Analysis #ChingCheong

Will CCP truthfully accept international community inspection?

We can explore the issue from three perspectives.

It was just a show

//Dr Bruce Aylward slipped of his tongue that they had not visited the dirty district of Wuhan. (note 1) Therefore, the WHO group and their so-called report was a mere formality.

WHO’s report was written to fit CCP’s notion

//did not allow mentioning anything about the possibility of second wave of outbreak... the report did not point out CCP covered up the outbreak of the epidemics and suppressed people who disclosed the truth of the reality.

//this was not a negligence but a deliberate avoidance of Wuhan in order not to embarrass PRC.

CCP wants to make use of the authority of WHO and the report from the investigation team to legitimise their own official notion about the epidemics

1. The covid-19 is a ‘natural’ product and not ‘artificially synthesised’

//The report did not mention a word about the suspicious concerns relating to P4 lab at Wuhan from the international community and the role of the lab in this incident.

2. The virus is not mutated

//It is important as to whether there is any mutation of the virus because it implies whether somebody is developing biological weapons.

//The problem is that the strains were provided by CCP and therefore totally controlled by whatever CCP wanted to provide.

3. WHO helps to sell CCP propaganda of “China experience” in ‘combating’ the pandemics

//they do not only ruin their own reputation, they have become an accomplice of the pandemics.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Will-CCP-truthfully-accept-international-community-inspection-04-04

Excerpt: HKCNews, (4-Mar, updated on 4-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2V0hlLU

#WHO #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #VirusOrigin #BruceAylward #Censorship #SharpPower #Wuhan

#Rumour

Messages from a Wuhan Netizen

Editor’s note: A Taiwanese netizen published a post regarding the origin of the virus on PTT. The post includes a series of screenshots which were from a person living in Wuhan.

(16 Apr) To ensure safety, I won’t use internet censorship circumvention on my computer. I can only use my phone to take pictures on the screen. The image resolution will be low for sure. I will try my best to let you read it clearly.

Around 20 Dec 2019, I read the news of suspected SARS epidemic in Wuhan through Taiwan and International media. (At that time, I didn’t know it was a SARS related virus with a higher threat) I started to be aware of this situation every day. 

On 30 and 31 Dec 2019, I knew that Dr. Li Min Liang as a representative of 8 other doctors were all arrested. The international media also reported a hospital at Hàn Kǒu Jīn Yín Tán in Hubei was overcrowded; Then, I went to buy masks.

I lived in the small community nearby Shí Pái Lǐng in Wuchang. Walk towards the south along the road around a few thousand meters is South Lake District. If you walk a few thousand meters more, you will arrive in Jiang Xia district. The laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology is located in Jin Long Main Street, Jiang Xia.

//The nearest hospital from my house is the People’s Liberation Army’s General Hospital of Central Theater Command. It is opened to the public and located around 20 minutes walk from my residence. After I bought my masks, I didn’t go straight to my house. Instead, I walked to the hospital. In these 20 minutes, there were 3 ambulances with the siren on passed by and 2 of them were labelled as “Jiang Xia First Aid Center”//

Full translation: https://telegra.ph/Messages-from-a-Wuhan-Netizen-04-27

Source: Taiwan PTT (bardah2c)
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1587020308.A.8AD.html

#Wuhan #VirusOrigin #P4Lab #Coronavirus

The search for origins of Wuhan Pneumonia continues

• American documentary filmmaker found recruitment ads for researchers to study new virus found in bats and rodents

• China’s top virologist also questioned whether the virus came from the P4 lab in Wuhan

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Origins-of-the-novel-coronavirus-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-recruited-researchers-to-study-new-virus-from-bats-and-rodents-05-05

#VirusOrigin #Coronavirus

#Newspaper

Trump considers retaliation against China and the WHO after claiming that he has seen evidence that proves the virus originated from a Chinese lab

//Despite warnings from scientists and intelligence professionals that the US may never know the precise origin of the virus...Trump officials have been pushing the US intelligence community to determine the exact origins of the coronavirus outbreak

//The intelligence community made clear Thursday that they have not reached a definitive conclusion beyond ruling out theories that the virus was man-made or genetically modified

//President Donald Trump claimed that he has seen evidence that gives him a "high degree of confidence" the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but declined to provide details to back up his assertion

//The president continues to deflect blame for the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., claiming it would have been less severe if Beijing were more forthcoming with the severity of the virus in China toward the end of last year

//He has also suggested that China compensate the U.S., and possibly other countries, for coronavirus damages

Full Articles: Daily Mail UK & CNN Politics
http://dailym.ai/3foFkxN
https://cnn.it/2KWCodo

#coronavirus #China #WHO #Trump #VirusOrigin

Chinese propaganda 2/2: CCP created fake news claiming “COVID-19 was not lab-made” by altering Nobel prize winner, Luc Montagnier’s statement

Editor’s Note: From google search results, we can see french news has reported that the Nobel Prize winner, Luc Montagnier, says COVID-19 was man-made. However, CCP altered the original France sources, in the same way, that they put words into Italian scientist's mouths regarding the source of COVID-19, through their State Controlled media Xinhuanet, by spreading another version that the "French experts" said that COVID-19 virus was not created in a lab. Xinhuanet's fake news was listed as a very prominent searched display as shown. The question is: Have key search engine providers like Google been manipulated, influenced or even paid for altering their search results for the CCP?

Source: Google, (29-Apr)
bit.ly/2Wr4fb1

#Chinesepropaganda #fakenews #VirusOrigin #LucMontagnier

#Research
A study finds the Wuhan coronavirus strain prevalent in Hong Kong to be less virulent than the European and US strains

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Hong-Kongs-first-genomic-study-of-the-virus-reveals-lower-virulence-than-European-and-US-strains-05-10-2

#Coronavirus #VirusOrigin #HongKong

#Newspaper

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson joined the war of words on the origin of the COVID-19 Urging Pompeo to hire experts to investigate when the virus first appears in the US.

(29 Apr)The US government has publicly accused China of concealing the Wuhan Pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic a few times, while China has continuously responded to the US accusations through the diplomatic "war wolf." Earlier, Zhao, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of China, claimed that the virus first appeared in the US and was brought to China by the US army. Recently, Hua, another spokesperson, repeatedly targeted Pompeo in her speech, urging US experts to look into when the deadly virus first appeared in the US, as US citizens have the right to know.

Since Wuhan Pneumonia started spreading in the United States, US Secretary Pompeo has criticized China for concealing the epidemic several times, be it in public speeches or during media interviews. Recently, he again called on China to be more transparent in the investigation of the origin of the virus.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Hua Chunying, has also targeted Pompeo in her recent speeches. In her tweet on Apr 27, Hua said Pompeo was accusing China of concealing the epidemic again in an interview with Fox and asked who is out there spreading false information. Hua also urged Pompeo to stop playing political tricks to save energy for saving lives.

Today, Hua retweeted Pompeo's tweet of requesting China to be more open and transparent in the investigation of the origin of the virus as US experts aren't allowed to investigate in China. Hua replied that "CPC is open, transparent & responsible in #COVID19 response. 2 US experts were in China on WHO-China joint mission in late Jan". Hua also countered Pompeo's query by stating that US experts should investigate when the virus first appeared in the US because Americans need to know and the world also has the right to know.

Source: Radio Taiwan International
bit.ly/2YR2OWa

#US #Coronavirus #ConcealEpidemic #VirusOrigin #Investigation #Pompeo #Twitter #HuaChunying

#Newspaper

Behind China’s Twitter Campaign, a Murky Supporting Chorus

//Swarms of accounts are amplifying Beijing’s brash new messaging as the country tries to shape the global narrative about the coronavirus and much else.

//No doubt some of these accounts are run by patriotic, tech-savvy Chinese people who get around their government’s ban on Twitter and other Western platforms. But an analysis by The New York Times found that many of the accounts behaved with a single-mindedness that could suggest a coordinated campaign of the type that nation states have carried out on Twitter in the past.

//Of the roughly 4,600 accounts that reposted China’s leading envoys and state-run news outlets during a recent week, many acted suspiciously, The Times found. One in six tweeted with extremely high frequency despite having few followers, as if they were being used as loudspeakers, not as sharing platforms.

//Nearly one in seven tweeted almost nothing of their own, instead filling their feeds with reposts of the official Chinese accounts and others.

//In all, one third of the accounts had been created in the last three months, as the war of words with the Trump administration heated up. One in seven had zero followers.

//It is far from clear that the Chinese government is behind the swarms of accounts helping to spread its gospel on Twitter.

//Twitter last year suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it called a Chinese state-backed operation aimed at discrediting Hong Kong’s protesters

//The Times’s findings add to other recent evidence suggesting that Twitter is being manipulated to amplify pro-Beijing messages. Next Dim, a data firm in Israel, discovered two mundane-looking tweets praising China’s coronavirus response that were liked and reposted hundreds of thousands of times in March, possibly with the help of strategically placed influencer accounts.

//The U.S. State Department found inauthentic-seeming accounts that in April cited a Cambridge University study to raise doubts that the coronavirus originated in China. The most active of these accounts referred to the study in scores of tweets, even though the study’s lead author dismissed that interpretation of its findings.

//The State Department has denounced China’s efforts to burnish its image and drown out criticism during the pandemic, comparing them to Russia’s disinformation campaigns. Both countries are using a range of tools to “shape and tilt any given information environment in their favor,”

//Beijing’s Twitter brigade includes Hua Chunying, the head of the foreign ministry’s information department. Since joining the platform in October, Ms. Hua has attracted more than half a million followers with her feisty put-downs of the United States.

//Public records show that Beijing is trying to expand its influence on the Western internet. China’s internet regulator has sought out contractors to help it “make use of overseas social media platforms to develop online propaganda on major themes,”

Full Article: NTY, (08-Jun)

Further reading:
How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html
#Twitter #ChinesePropaganda #Coronavirus #VirusOrigin #US

#Newspaper

Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier: Researchers

//Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel coronavirus may have been present and spreading through central China long before the outbreak was first reported to the world, according to a new Harvard Medical School study.

//Though Chinese officials would not formally notify the World Health Organization until Dec. 31 that a new respiratory pathogen was coursing through Wuhan, U.S. intelligence caught wind of a problem as early as late November and notified the Pentagon, according to four sources briefed on the confidential information.

//“What we're trying to do is look at the activity, how busy a hospital is,” Brownstein said. “And the way we do that is by counting the cars that are at that hospital. Parking lots will get full as a hospital gets busy. So more cars in a hospital, the hospital's busier, likely because something's happening in the community, an infection is growing and people have to see a doctor. So you see the increases in the hospital business through the cars… We saw this across multiple institutions.”

//The picture painted by the data is not in itself conclusive, Brownstein acknowledged, but he said the numbers are telling.

//Starting with nearly 350 images captured by private satellites circling the globe, Brownstein’s study first examined traffic and parking outside major hospitals in Wuhan for the past two years. Among them were photographs snapped from space approximately every week or every other week through the fall of 2019. From the approximately 350 frames, researchers found 108 usable images, showing locations without obstruction from smog, tall buildings, clouds or other features that could complicate satellite analysis.

//“If you look at all of the images, observations we've ever had of all of these locations since 2018, almost all of the highest car counts are all in the September through December 2019 time frame,”

//the new research suggests that COVID-19, which has already killed more than 110,000 Americans, was likely brought to the U.S. by travelers from Wuhan long before it was detected.

//Brownstein said he and his researchers found the hospital-traffic data to be even more compelling after digging into internet search patterns. Around the time the hospital traffic was surging, there was a spike in online traffic in the Wuhan region among users asking China’s Baidu search engine for information on “cough” and “diarrhea.”

//“While queries of the respiratory symptom ‘cough’ show seasonal fluctuations coinciding with yearly influenza seasons, ‘diarrhea’ is a more COVID-19-specific symptom and only shows an association with the current epidemic,” according to the study. “The increase of both signals precede the documented start of the COVID-19 pandemic in December.”

//“We previously validated this method of indirectly measuring disease activity by monitoring hospital parking lot usage in Chile, Argentina and Mexico,”... “Using the data, we were able to forecast trends in influenza-like illnesses over several years.”

Full article: ABC news, (08-Jun)

Further reading:
Analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in Wuhan China indicates early disease activity in the Fall of 2019
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767

#ChinaLiedPeopleDied #Pandemic #CoronavirusResearch #Wuhan #VirusOrigin

#Newspaper

China's state council's white paper propagandises anti-epidemic "achievements" without acknowledging whistleblower Dr Li Wenliang

(7 Jun)Today, China's State Council Information Office released a white paper entitled "Fighting COVID-19: China in Action", which declared China a "victim nation" of COVID-19 that deserved fair treatment and was "not to be blamed". It expressed firm opposition against the stigmatization and politicization of the pandemic. The white paper claimed that when the pandemic began, China "provided clear and explicit information to the international community". However, it blatantly omitted the fact that Chinese provincial officials prevented hospitals from reporting cases of the virus. It also neglected to mention ophthalmologist Dr Li Wenliang being exposed to the epidemic and reprimanded by Wuhan authorities. This is an obvious cover-up of the situation's reality.

The white paper consists of 35,000 words and is divided into four sections [with the following titles]: "China's Fight against the Epidemic: A Test of Fire", "Well-Coordinated Prevention, Control and Treatment", "Assembling a Powerful Force to Beat the Virus" and "Building a Global Community of Health for All."

//Xu Lin, deputy minister of the Central Propaganda Department, responded to external criticism during the press conference for the [white paper's] announcement. He said that the Chinese media's reports on the epidemic were impartial and based on facts; accusations of false propaganda were inaccurate and totally ill-founded. Xu criticized the foreign politicians and media that politicised the pandemic and sensationalised theories of its "Chinese origin" and "China's cover-up", among others, without any scientific backing.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Chinas-state-councils-white-paper-propagandises-anti-epidemic-achievements-without-acknowledging-whistleblower-Dr-Li-Wenliang-06-21

Source: Apple Daily

#LiWenliang #WHO #Coronavirus #VirusOrigin #WhitePaper #Epidemic #ChinesePropaganda