By Modesto P. Sa-onoy
It had been speculated in international press for some time since the pandemic rearranged our lives and many lost their fortunes. But government and people were too busy trying to stop its spread that the priority was saving lives. Some people dismissed the “conspiracy theory” of a biological warfare.
The theory claimed that China had planned to unleash this virus in the United States, but the virus escaped from the laboratory in Wuhan, China and the first victims were the Chinse there including the doctor who raised the alarm. That doctor was reportedly arrested for shouting out loud about the virus until the spread of the disease could no longer be hidden under Chinese government censorship.
US President Donald Trump had also complained that China did not warn the world on time since November 1919 when it was discovered to have spread. We learned of it only by middle of January. The World Health Organization for weeks did not consider it a pandemic prompting Trump to accuse the WHO for its handling of the spread in apparent defense of China until the virus had infected thousands and gone world-wide.
On its April 30, 2020 issue, LifeSiteNews reported that “the French government has been notably restrained in their criticism of the Chinese Communist Party for unleashing a pandemic upon the world. One possible reason for their reticence is a single, highly embarrassing fact: They essentially built the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 lab in which the coronavirus now sweeping the world was being researched, and from which it escaped.”
The French government had something to do with the invention of this virus. LifeSiteNews explained the French connection.
“That the French delivered the turn-key, high-containment biolab to China has long been public knowledge, but now a German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has added riveting details to the story. The insider information comes from interviews with French scientists directly involved with the effort.”
That establishes the bases of this report – that is not another unfounded theory, false news but fact and thus verifiable.
The German newspaper said that “the lab’s origins and operations is, to say the least, disturbing. The French government agreed to construct the state-of-the-art lab on condition that scientists from the two countries would collaborate on joint research projects there. The French were to have a significant presence. According to the terms of the agreement, no fewer than 50 French researchers were to have taken up residence in the apartment building attached to the lab, where they would work daily.
“The construction of the Wuhan lab was completed by February 2017. This was such an important moment in the history of Sino-French relations that the French premier, Bernard Cazeneuve, personally traveled to Wuhan for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“To the surprise and consternation of the French, that ceremony marked the effective end of the ‘research partnership’ that the opening of the lab was supposed to inaugurate. Now that China had the P4 lab and technology it wanted, it promptly stiffed its foreign ‘partner’ and tore up the agreement it had signed. Top of Form
“Not a single French researcher was allowed residence in the compound and do research at the lab. The Chinese betrayal went largely unremarked by the embarrassed French government. When asked about it on French radio, the former French Health Minister, Marisol Touraine, said only, ‘This is really unfortunate, since we wanted to share our knowledge.’”
It was understandable that France did not expose this embarrassment and France could not have known that the Chinese would develop a virus that can be released on an enemy territory in a what we know as Chemical and Biological Warfare which is prohibited under the Geneva Convention of 1929. Moreover, while China at the time was a democracy, today’s China is a totalitarian communist regime.
One question arises: why are the French into this kind of research and with a communist country at that when it signed the 1929 Geneva Convention?
The German newspaper commented on the French behavior: “You already have shared your knowledge, to the world’s great detriment.”
France was among the first to be hit hard and it kept silent about its connection with the virus. When the conspiracy theory started to get hot, there was a flurry of denials and news from China got scarce. In France it was silence.
Continued tomorrow.
