Comprehensive CBS, "The New York Times" and other US media reported on the 18th local time that recently, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., nephew of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy, a candidate for the 2024 US presidential election and nephew of the 35th President of the United States, talked about the view that "the new crown virus targets certain specific races" at a banquet.
According to reports, he declared that "the targets of the new coronavirus are white and black, and the most immune races are Jews and Chinese." He also threw out an even more startling claim, saying that "the United States is developing biological and chemical weapons against China and Russia."
After this private speech was made public by the US media, it quickly set off an uproar in the United States, and many Democrats and Asian and Jewish groups condemned his remarks as "racist" and criticized him as "anti-Asian" and "anti-Semitic".
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On the 15th local time, Kennedy Jr. made this private speech while attending a dinner in New York, and was later made public by the US media "New York Post". He is a well-known anti-vaccine campaigner and conspiracy theorist whose remarks have been repeatedly criticized by public health officials.
According to the video released, Kennedy Jr. claimed that he saw a study that concluded that "the new coronavirus is racially targeted." "There are papers that focus on racial or ethnic differences and impacts of the coronavirus, which disproportionately attack certain races, with whites and blacks most vulnerable, and Jews and Chinese the most immune," he said. ”
He also claimed that both China and the United States are developing ethnic biological weapons, and said that the United States is collecting the DNA of Russians and Chinese to develop biological and chemical weapons specifically for China and Russia.
The New York Post exposed the video
In addition to forcing a series of Democratic leaders to lash out, Kennedy Jr. was strongly condemned by the American Jewish community and anti-Asian hate groups, who accused him of being "anti-Semitic and anti-Asian."
His brother and sister, including his brother and sister, also objected, criticizing his remarks as "pathetic and dishonest" and "they use anti-Semitic myths to foment distrust of Chinese." ”
After causing a huge controversy, Kennedy Jr. criticized the New York Post report on Twitter on the 15th, saying that he was only expounding a report on the effects of the new crown virus on different ethnic groups, as an example to illustrate the concept of this racial biological weapon, supporting his statement that "the United States and other governments are developing biological weapons for ethnic groups."
The next day he released a video statement in which he continued to explain that he also did not believe the virus was "deliberately designed" and that his remarks were only to prove that "biological weapons can be developed to attack certain races."
For Kennedy Jr.'s controversial remarks, on the 17th local time, US White House spokesman Jean Pierre also responded at a press briefing on the same day.
According to the transcript released on the official website of the White House, Jean-Pierre said that countless American families are suffering from the loss of loved ones due to the new crown epidemic, and the statement of Kennedy Jr. in the video is "wrong" and "despicable", and this conspiracy theory from racists and anti-Semites is putting fellow Americans "at risk" and must be vigorously opposed.
She added, "I would like to quote the American Jewish Committee as saying that 'the claim that the coronavirus has been genetically modified to save Jews and Chinese is offensive and very dangerous.'" ”
Jean-Pierre called on the public to make clear and firm opposition when they hear such false statements against Asian-Americans and Jewish Americans, "which is exactly what President Biden and his administration are opposing." Respecting and protecting the dignity of our fellow Americans is important, and it's a core principle of our nation. ”
However, in response to Kennedy's statement that "the United States is developing biological and chemical weapons against China and Russia", neither reporters nor spokespersons mentioned or responded.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, conspiracy theories about genetic weapons have not stopped. In particular, the clumsy performances of the US government and its pharmaceutical capital groups are adding fuel to the conjecture of gene warfare.
China has set an example in supporting research on the origins of the new coronavirus. So far, China is the only country that has repeatedly invited WHO international expert groups to carry out cooperation on the traceability of the new coronavirus in its country, and it is also the only country that has repeatedly organized its own experts to share the traceability progress with the WHO Advisory Group. On the issue of tracing the origin of the new coronavirus, China shared the most data and research results.
The China-WHO joint research report on the traceability of the new coronavirus released in 2021 has reached the scientific authoritative conclusion after field research by experts from many countries - the "laboratory leak theory" is extremely unlikely.
On the contrary, the United States has a bad record on the issue of biological military activities. According to the data, the Fort Detrick base of the US military and the biological laboratories of the University of North Carolina have long been engaged in coronavirus research and synthetic transformation, and the DePauw base was even closed for a time due to serious safety accidents, but the United States has never made a serious explanation to the international community and its own people.
Last year, Russia exposed that the United States has a number of biological laboratories in Ukraine, which attracted international attention. In this regard, Zhao Lijian, then spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, pointed out at a regular press conference that the US biomilitary activities in Ukraine were only the tip of the iceberg, and disclosed for the first time that the United States controlled 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries around the world.
Zhao Lijian said that the United States has always been perfunctory in response to the concerns of the international community, and even described the doubts raised by the international community as "spreading false information." Moreover, for 20 years, the United States has single-handedly obstructed the establishment of the verification mechanism of the Biological Weapons Convention and refused to accept the verification of biological facilities inside and outside its territory, which has further aggravated the concerns of the international community. We once again urge the US side to make a comprehensive clarification of its biological militarization activities inside and outside its territory and accept multilateral verification.
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