Yao Kun Is Deputy Director of the Institute of World Politics, China Academy of Contemporary International Relations
Recently, the number of new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in the United States has reached a new high, but some American politicians are still obsessed with stigmatizing the epidemic, labeling the virus, and politicizing traceability, deliberately stigmatizing China, and clamoring for the SO-called second-stage investigation of China by the WHO. The United States has taken advantage of the problem of traceability, engaged in political manipulation, and practiced hegemony in the name of science, and what it has done has evolved into "traceability terrorism" to the letter. In detail, there are seven deadly sins:
The first crime: arrogance – ineffective fight against the epidemic and disregard for the lives of one's own people
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the governments of the United States and Western countries have not only failed to follow the WHO guidelines to take effective epidemic prevention measures, but also continued to issue misinformation and guidelines on epidemic prevention measures such as wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. From watching the fire from the other side to waiting for the so-called "herd immunity", US politicians have used a series of lies to paralyze their own people and put political self-interest above people's lives and health, resulting in a rising number of confirmed cases and deaths in their countries. The US media has reported that while telling the public that the epidemic is "preventable and controllable", a number of members of Congress have sold a large number of stocks to "perfectly" hedge through insider trading before the epidemic triggered a sharp decline in the US stock market.
Recently, with the spread of the Delta mutation virus, the new crown epidemic has rebounded in many countries around the world, and the United States continues to act as a disgraceful frontrunner - the number of new cases in the day has reached a new high, with a cumulative confirmed case of more than 35 million, and the number of confirmed cases and deaths ranks first in the world.
Time magazine has pointed out that the United States as a country is "becoming insensitive to tragedy" and that there is a disturbing undercurrent in American attitudes towards the pandemic: willingness to accept mass death is an inevitable part of everyday life.
The second sin: jealousy – an imbalance of mind, insisting on smearing and suppressing China
The United States has successively thrown out distorted theories that slander China, reflecting the deep anxiety about the loss of national credit caused by its own ineffective fight against the epidemic, and also exposing the bad intentions of smearing China for no reason.
After arduous efforts, China has taken the lead in controlling the epidemic, taking the lead in resuming work and production, and taking the lead in achieving stable economic recovery, demonstrating its strong institutional advantages and active foreign aid as a major country. In contrast, many Western countries, at the beginning of the epidemic, were indifferent, underestimated the harm and spread of the virus, and waited for the epidemic to spread significantly in their own countries before suddenly waking up, missing the window period of prevention and control, resulting in a serious situation or even on the verge of getting out of control. Western elites are increasingly worried about how the West will live on its own if countries that claim to be "liberal and democratic" are not governed.
In order to divert the people's accusations of the country's ineffective fight against the epidemic, US politicians, media, and academic circles have successively thrown out distorted theories to cover up their own insufficient response and divert their attention. There were "conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus", "China's responsibility theories" and "China's compensation theories" that reversed black and white, and then two so-called "open letters" were published to arbitrarily misinterpret the scientific conclusions and reports of the WHO joint expert group.
On August 2, the relevant members of the US House of Representatives released an updated version of the so-called "New Coronavirus Traceability Report", repeating the same old tune and continuing to peddle the cliché of the so-called "Chinese laboratory leak theory". Its essence is anxiety about China's rising international discourse power and influence, worry about its "leadership by the wayside", unwilling to let international anti-epidemic cooperation "add points" to China, and deliberately smear and slander And slander China, in order to hedge the positive role and moral effect of China's participation in and leading international cooperation against the epidemic. Allison, a well-known American scholar, said bluntly that during the epidemic, the US political elite targeted China in order to avoid taking responsibility for the failure of the fight against the epidemic.
The Third Crime: Deception – Ignoring the Facts and Repeatedly Concocting "Traceability Scripts"
On May 26, U.S. President Joe Biden asked U.S. intelligence agencies to lead the investigation into rigorous scientific work and give an account within 90 days.
The CIA's "black history" is well known. At that time, they used a small bottle of washing powder as so-called evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and self-directed and self-acted "White Helmets" to pose for the so-called "Syrian chemical weapons attack" video, which were all "masterpieces" of the US intelligence services. Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, who served as director of the CIA, once exposed the dark curtain of the US intelligence service: "We lie, we cheat, we steal." We also have a course dedicated to teaching these. This is the glory of the United States' continuous exploration and progress. The real intention of the US government in handing over such a professional issue of tracing the origin to the intelligence department is nothing more than to regain the usual method of smearing China on Xinjiang-related and Hong Kong-related issues, and to create a momentum of "asking China for responsibility."
The fourth crime: concealment - secretive, silent about the Deburg base
Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory, formerly the center of the United States' biological weapons research program. Public information shows that Fort Detrick is inextricably linked to Unit 731 of the Japanese army invading China.
After the end of World War II, the United States successively sent bacteriological warfare experts from Fort Detrick to Japan within a few years to learn about Japanese biological weapons such as bacteria from the main members of Unit 731, including Shiro Ishii, the leader of Unit 731. On the condition that the United States exempt unit 731 from war criminals of the Japanese army invading China from war responsibility, it obtained data on human experiments, bacteriological experiments, bacteriological warfare, and poison gas experiments of unit 731 to conduct biological weapons research. On the cover of the three human experiment reports of Unit 731,"Anthrax Experiment Report," "Rhinoderma Experiment Report," and "Plague Bacteria Experiment Report," the words "Research and Development Department of the Chemical Corps of the Biological Warfare Laboratory at Fort Detrick Base, Maryland, this letter is returned to the Archives Department of the Post-War Headquarters, and is stamped with a black ink print of the "Technical Library of the D'Dalway Experimental Base.".
Historically, Fort Detrick has caused major crises due to virus leaks on many occasions. In the traceability of the new crown pneumonia, it has once again attracted the attention of the world. The New York Times and The Washington Post have both reported that in August 2019, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly ordered the closure of the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory on the grounds that "wastewater purification systems are ineffective." Almost at the same time, "mysterious pneumonia" appeared in the area around Deburg. The ABC reported in July 2019 that the "Green Spring" retiree community, just an hour's drive from Debourg, had outbreaks of unexplained respiratory illnesses with symptoms including "fever, cough, body aches, wheezing, hoarseness and general weakness," as well as pneumonia.
One can't help but ask how many secrets are hidden in Fort Detrick, where more than 200 biological laboratories in the United States are scattered around the world? In July 2019, there was an unexplained respiratory disease in northern Virginia, and a large-scale outbreak of "e-cigarette disease" in Wisconsin.
The fifth crime: violence – spreading a political virus and inciting hate crimes
During the epidemic, some US politicians spread conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus, hyped up the "Chinese virus theory", and incited xenophobia, which led to a significant increase in hate crimes against Asians.
According to the Center for The Center for Hatred and Extremism Studies, hate crimes against Asian Americans rose 149 percent in 2020 in 16 major U.S. cities compared to 2019. In the first quarter of 2021, the number of reports of hate-Asian crimes received by police in 16 major cities and counties across the United States increased by 164% compared with the same period in 2020.
"White supremacy" is rising and expanding in the dregs of the United States. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group in the United States, white racist organizations in the United States are proliferating at a rate of about 50 percent per year and are becoming increasingly extreme and violent. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said "white supremacy" has become a new "transnational threat" and is using COVID-19 to gain support.
The Sixth Crime: Intimidation – Violating Science and Suppressing Scientists Who Speak Out Objectively
In order to push the "new crown from the laboratory leak" script invented by the United States, the United States coerced, induced and suppressed many professional scientists.
Several WHO people and researchers have revealed that as long as they express their support for the China-WHO study on the traceability of the new crown virus, they will be pressured and even threatened by the United States. Australian virologist Anderson, who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the beginning of the outbreak, refuted the "laboratory leak theory" with her own experience, and as a result, she was frequently insulted and intimidated, and had to call the police for help. Lviv, a Russian virologist and WHO expert, revealed that many WHO experts, including him, are under pressure from the United States, "these Americans do not want virologists to tell the truth about the epidemic." ”
The seventh crime: division – clinging to "vaccine nationalism" and undermining global anti-epidemic cooperation
As the world's largest developed country and a major country that has taken on important international responsibilities for cooperation in the field of global health security, the US government's inaction and chaotic behavior at home and wanton destruction of global anti-epidemic cooperation at home have not only cost the American people dearly, but also posed an unprecedented threat to global health security.
At the beginning of the outbreak, the United Nations, the World Health Organization and other international organizations and agencies have been committed to global epidemic prevention and control and vaccine research and development, and just when they need moral and financial support the most, the United States not only cut off the financial support it should have undertaken, but also owed huge dues. When there was an urgent shortage of epidemic prevention materials in various countries, the United States repeatedly intercepted masks and ventilators and other materials ordered by other countries during international transportation. In April 2020, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency suddenly ordered 3M to stop exporting 3M masks to the Canadian and Latin American markets, and the existing order was temporarily cancelled.
At present, the United States and other developed countries are hoarding vaccines on a large scale, and they adhere to the principle of national priority in vaccine research and development and distribution, which has intensified the "vaccine nationalism" situation of "who develops, who exclusively". The US Biden administration invoked the National Defense Production Act to help domestic vaccine manufacturers prioritize the supply of raw materials, and stressed that vaccines will be prioritized for the use of the American people. In March, the U.S. government locked in 800 million doses of vaccines for Pfizer, Modena, and Johnson & Johnson, far exceeding their 330 million people and achieving supersaturated supplies. The vaccine distribution gap is widening globally.
The above seven deadly sins, pile by pile, are all committed by the United States. Engaging in "traceability terrorism" on the basis of the issue of traceability is a serious betrayal of the scientific spirit, a deliberate sabotage of global solidarity and anti-epidemic efforts, and a challenge to the bottom line of human conscience.
Shady manipulation is ultimately unpopular. Recently, more than 300 political parties, social organizations and think tanks in hundreds of countries and regions around the world submitted a Joint Statement to the Secretariat of the World Health Organization, strongly calling on WHO to objectively and fairly carry out global research on the traceability of the new crown virus, resolutely opposing the politicization of the traceability issue and opposing the United States and other countries to exercise hegemony in the name of science. At present, the global times launched a call for "Chinese netizens asking WHO to investigate the joint signature of the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory in the United States" on July 17, and the total number of signatures has exceeded 25 million. The whole world is waiting for the United States to give an answer. (Editor-in-Charge: Guo Suping)
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