China and the United States are in a fierce confrontation on the origin tracing of COVID-19. The United States has accused the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) of coming from China’s Wuhan laboratory, while China has repeatedly called on the U.S. to disclose U.S. biochemical laboratories, including Fort Detrick. Chinese official media revealed the inside story of the U.S. biochemical laboratory through the latest satellite photos.
Chinese media Xinhua News Agency reported on Aug. 11 that Xinhua News Agency’s Xu Zeyu Studio, in cooperation with Xinhua News Agency’s satellite news laboratory, recently launched a video on the overseas social media to “review” U.S. biochemical laboratories from an overhead view, scanning the U.S. biochemical laboratories set up in 25 countries and regions around the world from a viewpoint hundreds of thousands of meters high in space.
The post reads, “For nearly 20 years, the United States has refused to restart negotiations on a verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention. This approach is perhaps the best option for the U.S. to hide its secrets. The U.S. has built biological laboratories in 25 countries or regions and triggered massive outbreaks of measles or other dangerous infectious diseases. Guess how many biolabs the U.S. has built in the world? 200!”
The video begins with a satellite reveal of the layout of the Fort Detrick lab and points out that there are at least 27 U.S. bio-labs in the former Soviet republics and other areas around Russia alone, and even four in South Korea.
The video concludes by asking why the United States has established so many military-led biochemical laboratories around the world. Do these laboratories meet safety standards? Have there ever been any leaks?
The video has reportedly sparked strong interest among overseas audiences. The total number of video views has now exceeded 6 million, with more than 200,000 interactions, and internet users from many countries have expressed surprise and concern about the number and scale of U.S. biochemical laboratories.
The U.S. has recently once again targeted China with the COVID-19 origin hunt. Previously, the WHO went to Wuhan, China, to investigate the origin of the COVID-19 and came to a clear conclusion that the virus could not have come from the Wuhan laboratory, but the U.S. side recently began to hype that the virus came from China, demanding another investigation of China.
The Chinese side, for its part, has demanded that the U.S. military open the U.S. biological laboratories, including Fort Detrick, for investigation by WHO experts, and that the U.S. side discloses the unusual actions of the U.S. military during the Wuhan Military Games in October 2019.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has issued three questions in a row to the United States: “What is the connection between the Fort Detrick biological laboratory and unexplained respiratory diseases such as e-cigarette disease? Why has the U.S. side not invited the WHO to the U.S. to conduct a thorough investigation of Fort Detrick? On the issue of COVID-19 origin tracing, why can’t we go to the United States when we can go to China?”