China News Service, Beijing, August 1st, title: The so-called "secret telegrams" are unfounded. When will political lies cease?

　　Author Bo Wenwen

　　A diplomatic cable about the visit of officials from the US Embassy in China to the Wuhan Institute of Virology two years ago was finally released by the US State Department. Earlier this so-called "secret cable" was hyped up by some American politicians as "evidence" accusing China. However, after the content of the telegram was announced, it became clear to everyone that the so-called "evidence" and "truth" by people with ulterior motives in the United States were nothing but old-fashioned "smears" and "lie."

The so-called "secret electricity" has no proof

　　Since April this year, some high-level US officials have used this so-called "secret cable" to accuse China, claiming that the new coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory.

　　US Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that there is "strong evidence" supporting the origin of the new coronavirus in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. So, what kind of strong confidential document is this "strong evidence that is not allowed to be revealed" among the population such as Pompeo?

Data map: US Secretary of State Pompeo.

　　According to US media reports, the so-called "secret phone" in this announcement is marked as "SBU", meaning that the content is sensitive but not classified. The content of the telegram shows that after visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology in January 2018, officials of the US Embassy in China believed that the institute "severely lacked the technical personnel and inspectors needed to ensure the safe operation of this high-level laboratory."

　　However, reports indicate that the personnel and security issues of the Wuhan Institute of Virology have received support from the United States and France at that time.

　　CNN quoted the content of the telegram as saying that the Galveston Medical Division of the University of Texas was training technical personnel for the Wuhan Institute of Virology to help alleviate the shortage of personnel in the institute. In addition, another telegram concerning the Wuhan Institute of Virology in April 2018 stated that French experts have provided safety guidelines and biosafety training for the laboratory and will continue to carry out these tasks.

The scientific community "doesn't buy it", the intelligence community "plays against the tune"

　　"I don't see any evidence in this telegram to support the claim that the new crown virus was intentionally or unintentionally leaked from the laboratory." Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University "The newspaper" said in an interview, "You can't just convict you, you have to have evidence."

　　Rob Grenfell, director of the Institute of Health and Biosafety of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Australia, also said that the content described in the telegram cannot be used as evidence at all, and the so-called "personnel qualification problem" is also a continuous challenge facing research institutions in various countries. "Almost all such institutions in the world face such problems."

　　Tom Inglesby, director of the Health and Safety Center at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, recently stated that the telegram was sent back two years before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, and that many improvements may have occurred in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the two years. "My judgment is still that the new coronavirus conforms to its natural origin."

　　In addition to the doubts of authoritative scientific experts, the U.S. intelligence community also rarely "sings against U.S. government officials." In May of this year, the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Agency issued a statement stating that the intelligence community agreed with the "broad scientific consensus" that the new coronavirus is not man-made, nor is it genetically modified. Earlier, the "New York Times" reported that senior U.S. government officials had asked U.S. intelligence agencies to seek evidence to support the "baseless theory" that a laboratory in Wuhan was the source of the outbreak of the new crown virus.

　　In addition, the "Five Eyes" countries that share intelligence with the United States also believe that it is "extremely unlikely" that the new coronavirus originated in a laboratory.

When will political lies cease?

　　In fact, when the "theory of the origin of the new coronavirus laboratory" was concocted and hyped, it was quickly rejected by the WHO and many authoritative experts.

　　In April, the WHO repeatedly called for the source of the virus to be based on science and facts. It believed that the existing evidence showed that the new crown virus originated from an animal and not a laboratory man-made, and said on May 1 that the new crown can be determined. The virus comes from nature.

　　"Pompeo have been spreading lies about the origin of the new crown virus to cover up their incompetence. It's enough." An American netizen commented on related reports published by Telegram.

　　In the United States, more than 4.55 million people have been diagnosed with the new crown virus, and more than 150,000 people have died. For the American people, it may be important to analyze the question of "Where does the new crown virus come from", but at present they are more concerned about the question: Why is the current situation in the United States far worse than it was at the beginning of the outbreak? Why has so many months passed and the US is still so weak in responding to the epidemic? Why is it that many countries have resumed economic operations, but Americans are not allowed to enter Europe, Asia and other countries?

　　"For me, I don't care where the virus comes from. What I care about is that the government has not been able to protect the people of this country, but it is still weaving lies one after another." An American netizen said that politicians are addicted to searching. "Scapegoat" routines, but never committed to seeking a plan to control the spread of the epidemic.

　　Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the international medical journal "The Lancet", once stated that accusing China of being the source of the spread of the new crown epidemic "is neither beneficial nor true." "What we really need to do is to calm down and work with the Chinese government to fight the epidemic, and do everything we can to ensure that the epidemic will not return." Horton emphasized. (Finish) '