Chinese government promoting conspiracy theory stating that Covid escaped from an American lab

When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from a U.S. military lab, it had largely stayed on the fringe. Now, the ruling Communist Party has propelled the idea firmly into the mainstream.

This week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman repeatedly used an official podium to elevate unproven ideas that the coronavirus may have first leaked from a research facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Communist Party publication, the Global Times, started an online petition in July calling for that lab to be investigated and said it gathered more than 25 million signatures.

Officials and state media have promoted a rap song by a patriotic Chinese hip-hop group that touted the same claim, with the lyrics: “How many plots came out of your labs? How many dead bodies hanging a tag?”

Ben Reilly wrote:Well, one thing the Chinese officials are offering up as so-called evidence that the outbreak really began in the U.S. is the 2019 outbreak of lung disease in Wisconsin, which has already been shown to have been caused by teenagers vaping black-market THC liquid.

The Chinese are still, therefore, saying that the virus escaped a lab in Maryland and travelled more than 700 miles to Wisconsin before infecting anybody.

eddie wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Well, one thing the Chinese officials are offering up as so-called evidence that the outbreak really began in the U.S. is the 2019 outbreak of lung disease in Wisconsin, which has already been shown to have been caused by teenagers vaping black-market THC liquid.

The Chinese are still, therefore, saying that the virus escaped a lab in Maryland and travelled more than 700 miles to Wisconsin before infecting anybody.

Well, without sounding biased or whatever, the Chinese have always been dodgy.

Ben Reilly wrote:

When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from a U.S. military lab, it had largely stayed on the fringe. Now, the ruling Communist Party has propelled the idea firmly into the mainstream.

This week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman repeatedly used an official podium to elevate unproven ideas that the coronavirus may have first leaked from a research facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Communist Party publication, the Global Times, started an online petition in July calling for that lab to be investigated and said it gathered more than 25 million signatures.

Officials and state media have promoted a rap song by a patriotic Chinese hip-hop group that touted the same claim, with the lyrics: “How many plots came out of your labs? How many dead bodies hanging a tag?”

https://news.yahoo.com/rejecting-covid-inquiry-china-peddles-120412541.html

Nice trick, having the virus escape in America but infecting China before anybody else ...

eddie wrote:That’s Russell Brand. People should start to listen to him.
He’s a well-informed and outspoken guy.

Tommy Monk wrote:This virus could have come from a lab in any country and then just released in Wuhan to make it look like it escaped from a Wuhan lab.

Tommy Monk wrote:I doubt very much it has anything to do with Vladimir Putin or Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Tommy Monk wrote:No, they are not in this scenario.

Tommy Monk wrote:


No.