China News Agency, Beijing, August 1st, title: Who "kidnapped" a WHO expert?

　　China News Agency reporter Bo Wenwen

　　Recently, the Secretariat of the World Health Organization unilaterally proposed the second phase of the virus traceability work plan, in which the hypothesis that "China violates laboratory procedures and causes virus leakage" is one of the research priorities.

This is inconsistent with the conclusions and recommendations of the previous joint study of WHO's international experts and Chinese experts.

　　The inconsistent performance of WHO experts seems to be described by a Chinese internet buzzword: "You blink when you are kidnapped." It means that when the person involved makes a behavior that is seriously inconsistent with the usual performance or deviates from the human setting, other people are right. This behavior expresses doubts and surprises.

　　"To be honest, when I first saw the WHO's second phase traceability plan, I was very surprised." Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission of China, pointed out that the plan will "China violates laboratory procedures and causes virus leakage. "This hypothesis, as one of the research focuses, reveals "disrespect for common sense and an arrogant attitude towards science."

　　In March of this year, the World Health Organization officially released the China-WHO Joint Research Report on the Traceability of the New Coronavirus in Geneva, which clearly came to the conclusion that “laboratory leakage is extremely unlikely”, which has become a general consensus in the international academic community.

Recently, 24 internationally renowned experts issued a joint statement in the authoritative medical journal "The Lancet", emphasizing that there is no scientific evidence to support the "laboratory leak theory". Recent peer review results strongly indicate that the virus has evolved in nature.

　　The rumors surrounding the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been clarified many times.

So far, none of the staff and graduate students of Wuhan Institute of Virology has been infected with the new coronavirus.

Wuhan Institute of Virology has not conducted research on the benefits of coronavirus, and there is no so-called artificial virus.

So where does "violation of laboratory procedures cause virus leakage" come from?

　　More importantly, the WHO expert team has personally visited the Wuhan Virus Institute for on-site investigations and concluded that it is extremely unlikely that the virus will leak from the laboratory.

The members of the expert group come from more than 10 countries including Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. They are all authoritative and experienced experts in various fields carefully selected by the WHO.

　　The second phase of the traceability work plan still insists on "China's violation of laboratory procedures causing virus leakage" as the research focus, but deliberately ignores important research directions such as early global cases and cold chain transmission of viruses, which violates common sense and violates scientific laws. .

Moreover, this second-stage traceability plan was unilaterally proposed by the WHO Secretariat and has not been unanimously agreed by WHO member states.

WHO is led by member states. The draft work plan for the second phase proposed by the secretariat is for discussion by member states, and member states have the right to make amendments.

The responsibility of the secretariat is to facilitate full consultation and agreement among member states, but it does not have the right to make decisions on its own.

　　Why is the WHO suddenly "daunting" in front of science?

Who secretly "kidnapped" a WHO expert?

　　If you think about it carefully, the "Chinese laboratory leak" conspiracy theory has been listed as a research focus despite the existing conclusions, and the lack of transparency in the drafting process has made it doubtful that this work plan is echoing the noise of individual countries such as the United States." Theory of Laboratory Leakage".

　　In fact, many WHO member states, including China, have expressed concern and opposition to the second-stage traceability work plan, believing that this plan has been severely politicized and does not meet the requirements of the 73rd World Health Assembly resolution. It does not conform to the conclusions and recommendations of the China-WHO Joint Research Report on the Traceability of New Coronavirus, does not fully reflect the latest results of global traceability research, and cannot be used as the basis for the second phase of traceability cooperation.

At the same time, 60 countries have also sent letters to the Director-General of WHO, welcoming the China-WHO joint research report and opposing the politicization of traceability issues.

　　"As a biologist, I have witnessed in the past few months how the traceability of the new crown is politicized." A European biologist recently disclosed on social media that there are WHO sources and several people. Researchers complained to them that as long as they support the conclusions of the China-WHO new crown virus traceability study, they will be subject to tremendous pressure from the United States and certain media, and even threats and intimidation.

　　American scientist Peter Dazzak is one example.

In January of this year, Dazak went to Wuhan as a member of the WHO international expert group to conduct a joint traceability study. Because he publicly responded to the smearing argument of “China obstructing the WHO traceability research in Wuhan” by the US media, he was threatened by US politics and had to Withdraw from the research project on traceability of the new coronavirus.

　　Russian virologist and WHO expert Lviv revealed that many WHO experts, including himself, are facing pressure from the United States. "These Americans do not want virologists to tell the truth about the epidemic."

　　Not only WHO experts, but also many international scientists who carry out traceability research in the spirit of science have also encountered political pressure, abuse and threats.

　　According to reports, the American experts in the “Lancet” New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Committee’s Epidemic Traceability Task Force were “threatened” and pressured to abandon the theory of natural origins with sufficient scientific evidence, and instead support the “laboratory leak theory” Rasmussen, an American virologist who openly opposed the "laboratory leak theory", has been constantly exposed to cyber violence, harassment and even personal threats; Australia, who once worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and refuted the "laboratory leak theory" with his personal experience The national scientist Anderson was frequently abused and intimidated.

　　According to the disclosure of international scientists, the United States intends to discredit the qualifications of scientists participating in the China-WHO joint research on the traceability of the novel coronavirus, and attempts to overturn the conclusions of the joint research report.

"The U.S. government is sparing no effort to rebuild U.S. influence in the World Health Organization and is trying to dominate key issues."

　　The United States criticized the WHO's first-stage traceability research team for lack of representativeness, and claimed that the research was interfered by the Chinese government. In fact, it was the United States that continuously pressured the WHO for the purpose of "delineating" its own country and allies. Experts are included in the list of the second phase of the research team.

　　Concocting conspiracy theories, suppressing scientists, and politicizing the source, the United States is undoubtedly the "political kidnapper" trying to reverse black and white.

　　The world has every reason to worry that if US politicians are allowed to "kidnap" WHO experts, the traceability work may only be reduced to a political tool for the United States to "hidden the world", at the cost of the loss of more innocent lives.

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