Concerning! Chinese document claims Chinese military discussed weaponizing coronaviruses back in 2015

New Delhi, May 10: In a major revelation, a document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed, according to the Australian media.

 

 

 

The document named 'The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons' suggested that World War Three would be fought with biological weapons. Along with this, it also stated that Chinese military scientists were discussing the weaponisation of SARS coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was published on news.com.au.

 

 

Peter Jennings, the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), told the news agency that the document is as close to a "smoking gun" as we've got. "I think this is significant because it clearly shows that Chinese scientists were thinking about military application for different strains of the coronavirus and thinking about how it could be deployed," Jennings said.

 

 

"It begins to firm up the possibility that what we have here is the accidental release of a pathogen for military use," Jennings added. He also said that the document may explain why China has been so reluctant for outside investigations into the origins of COVID-19. If this was a case of transmission from a wet market it would be in China's interest to co-operate ... we've had the opposite of that."

 

It should be noted that among the 18 listed authors of the document are People's Liberation Army scientists and weapons experts. Meanwhile, in Beijing, the state-run Global Times newspaper slammed The Australian for publishing the article to smear China.

 

 

An academic book that explores bioterrorism and possibilities of viruses being used in warfare was interpreted as a conspiracy theory by The Australian, which deliberately and malignantly intends to invent pretexts to smear China, Chen Hong, a professor and director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University, told the newspaper.

 

"It is a shame for anti-China forces in Australia to back their own ideology against China at the expense of basic professional journalistic ethics, conspiring to twist the real meaning of the book," Chen said.