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Leaked State Department cables add weight to the theory that COVID-19 started in a Wuhan virology lab
The Blaze ^ | April 15, 2020 | Phil Silver

Posted on 04/16/2020 6:17:50 AM PDT by Twotone

In 2018 — nearly two years before the start of the global coronavirus pandemic — U.S. officials in China sent warnings to Washington expressing safety concerns over a Wuhan facility's research into coronaviruses in horseshoe bats, adding weight to the theory that the novel virus originated in a lab and not at a Wuhan wet market.

The news broke in a report Wednesday by Josh Rogin of the Washington Post, who said that he obtained access to the first of two diplomatic cables sent from State Department officials who had visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in January and March 2018.

According to Rogin, in January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing sent American science diplomats to the Wuhan lab, which had in 2017 become the first lab in China to achieve BSL-4 clearance, or the highest level of bioresearch safety. That clearance — granted by a Chinese accrediting agency — allowed researchers at the lab to study the world's most dangerous pathogens.

Evidently, what the U.S. officials discovered during their visits concerned them so much that they proceeded to send two Sensitive But Unclassified cables back to Washington. In the first cable, according to Rogin, the officials warned that inadequate safety measures and risky research could result in a new SARS-like pandemic.

"During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators to safely operate this high-containment laboratory," states the Jan. 19, 2018 cable.

"Most importantly...the researchers also showed that various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus. This finding strongly suggests that SARS-like coronaviruses from bats can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases. "

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1 posted on 04/16/2020 6:17:50 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

So it’s okay to go back to eating bat soup?


2 posted on 04/16/2020 6:20:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Twotone

3 posted on 04/16/2020 6:22:17 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Twotone

I have been posting and talking about this for months with a lot of links. Not sure why media has decided now to focus on this..its not new information. Its been readily available to even the worst internet search ability dummy.


4 posted on 04/16/2020 6:22:17 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: Twotone

No reason for it to go Hot, but we need to go to war against China. We shouldn’t buy from them or sell to them. Economic warfare like we’ve never done before. Tariffs seem like a good way to make trade with China a losing proposition.


5 posted on 04/16/2020 6:23:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Twotone

No doubt it came from the Wuhan Lab. China owes the U.S. taxpayers trillions.


6 posted on 04/16/2020 6:23:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Jeff Chandler
Bat soup had nothing to do with it. The Covid-19 virus is specific to the Horseshoe Bat, found only in remote caves 800 miles SW of Wuhan.

It takes an "Indiana Jones" level of effort to find these specific rare bats in those remote jungle caves. They were brought to Wuhan to study in the bio-labs, not to sell and eat.


7 posted on 04/16/2020 6:24:04 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Twotone

two diplomatic cables sent from State Department officials who had visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in January and March 2018

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Who in the State Department got these cables and what did they do with the info? How long could it possibly take to trace their path? We have a right to know.


8 posted on 04/16/2020 6:25:39 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: RummyChick

While the biolab origin theory has been prevalent on Infowars and The Blaze etc for months, I think this terrific documentary has made a huge impact.

“Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXWGxhd7ic

As the world is gripped by the ongoing pandemic, many questions remain about the origin of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

Join Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Philipp as he explores the known facts surrounding the CCP virus and the global pandemic it caused.


9 posted on 04/16/2020 6:26:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I agree but there are selfish and powerful forces in our country who have financial agendas and don’t want to see that happen. It remains to be seen how much national resolve we have to punish China in a meaningful way.


10 posted on 04/16/2020 6:31:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: RummyChick

its not new information. Its been readily available to even the worst internet search ability dummy.

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Its not so much about “dummies” its also about some Internet search engines “sanitizing” search results, so its not always easy to find exactly what you’re looking for if you know what I mean.


11 posted on 04/16/2020 6:35:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Twotone
Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation LINK

Why was a Chinese scientist stripped of security clearance?

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties LINK

What were the professor's ties to Wuhan lab?

Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market LINK

Selling a lie? The outbreak caused by bat soup?

Steven Mosher: ‘Most Likely Explanation’ for Coronavirus Is Wuhan Bioweapons Lab LINK

Meaning it was created in a lab and weaponized. Why?

Stock Markets Retreat As Nervous Investors Pocket Week's Gains LINK

Follow the money, who's waiting in the wings to profit (As early as January 26th)?

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commits $10 Million to Global Response to 2019-nCOV LINK

Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary LINK

There has been theories that the Wuhan Bio-lab was funded by George Soros

Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers claims Bill Gates and George Soros are behind coronavirus in bid to cull world's population with poisoned antidote in bizarre conspiracy theory LINK

Could that be disinfo to cover the real reasons? Just a motive of tanking global economies and install global governance, or simply to take down a president and return to "business as usual" with DUmocrat puppets? A 2015 documentary from Italia RAI (Italian national public broadcaster) covers a Chinese Lab that's engineering of a new virus combining Coronavirus from bats with SARS LINK

The Lab Experiment of BAT WOMAN LINK

Did she get a case of ARKANCIDE?

The DELIVERY SYSTEM LINK

DEEP STATE strikes back?

Fauci: There will be a surprise outbreak (2017) LINK

Who will PROFIT from chaos?

Bill Gates calls for nationwide social isolation policy to slow virus LINK

So, Bill Gates and George Soros both tag-team to fund a Wuhan bat virus study while combining it to infect humans, then create an "antidote" to sell to solve the problem that they themselves created.

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA

Bill Gates has got a secret!LINK

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA LINK

Bill Gates: Coronavirus Means We Need ‘Digital Certificates’ To Prove Who Received Vaccine LINK

Can I offer you a new tattoo?

Bill Gates, MIT Develop New ‘Tattoo ID’ to Check For Vaccinations LINK

The DELIVERY SYSTEM

LINK

The Laptop

LINK

The Lugi

LINK

The ELEVATOR

LINK

Door Handles

LINK

Chinese Checkers

LINK

Air Mail

LINK

“No more for Americans!”

LINK

12 posted on 04/16/2020 6:38:17 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ClearCase_guy
> Economic warfare like we’ve never done before

Methinks we did something similar with Japan back in the 1930s, and their government wasn’t in the precarious state the ChiComs are in now.

But I do agree with you, even with the real risk of starting a war.

I am more concerned with the Dems and Globalists here who side with the CCP.

13 posted on 04/16/2020 6:39:38 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: Twotone

I see where this is going. President Dr. Trump knew this was going to happen two years ago and did nothing. Just like Bush knew 9/11 was going to happen and did nothing.


14 posted on 04/16/2020 6:41:20 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Starboard

We will have to see which way it all goes but I think the “Deep State/Globalists” in the US will want to maintain the status quo with China.

Dealing with China the foreign aggressor and draining the swamp really becomes the same thing. The reason it’s hard to do, is the reason you have to do it.

But we’ll have to see if we succeed or not.


15 posted on 04/16/2020 6:43:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Texas Eagle

History books will have such nice neatly balanced stories to tell future children about these horrible people called Republicans and why the Internationale is their savior.

(sarcasm off)


16 posted on 04/16/2020 6:52:52 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Our retaliation/retribution options are limited at this time due to our dependence on the China supply chain. Its going to take awhile for us to break that dependency and by that time domestic pressures to retaliate will have subsided.

More likely we’ll see some form of symbolic actions that don’t really punish the Chinese for the damage they’ve done to us.


17 posted on 04/16/2020 6:56:15 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
Fully agreed that the censuring of news is evil on its face, this information didn't need to be "leaked", it was public for years and just needed attention.

Similar to our side raising the specter of Communists already in our government and being called "crazy" amongst other descriptives. Those folks will eventually be exonerated.

18 posted on 04/16/2020 7:02:43 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Twotone

No one wants to mention it, but it is a joint Chinese-French lab.


19 posted on 04/16/2020 7:20:31 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Twotone

JANUARY 2018 : (WUHAN, CHINA : FIRST BIO-SAFETY LEVEL 4 LAB BEGINS OPERATIONS ——See FRANCE)
China’s first bio-safety level 4 lab put into operation [From Jan 2018]
Xinhua News Agency ^ | January 4, 2018 | Editor: Xiang Bo
Posted on 1/30/2020, 12:02:32 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING — China has opened its first bio-safety level four laboratory, capable of conducting experiments with highly pathogenic microorganisms, according to the national health authority on Thursday.
Wuhan national bio-safety level four lab of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Wuhan P4 lab) is part of Sino-French cooperation in prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, said the Department of Health Science, Technology and Education with the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Level four is the highest bio-safety level, used for diagnostic work and research on easily transmitted pathogens which can cause fatal disease, including Ebola virus.
The Wuhan P4 lab will conduct research in anti-virus drugs and vaccines.


20 posted on 04/16/2020 7:24:13 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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