"I Am The Target": Silenced Chinese Virologist Tells Tucker COVID-19 Intentionally Released, CCP Trying To 'Disappear' Her

[Marker]

Hours after her unceremonious Twitter ban for, we assume, presenting evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a Wuhan lab, Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," where she told the Fox News host that the virus is a "Frankenstein" which was designed to target humans which was intentionally released.

"It could never come from nature," she Yan - an MD/PhD who worked with coronavirus at the University of Hong Kong

"There is evidence left in the genome" - which Yan detailed in a 26-page scientific paper co-written with three other Chinese scientists. "They don't want people to know this truth. Also, that's why I get suspended [from Twitter], I get suppression. I am the target that the Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared."

When Carlson asked her why she believes the virus made it's way out of the Wuhan lab, Dr. Yan said "I worked in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world at the university of Hong Kong. And the things I got deeply into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak - I had my intelligence through my network in China, involved in the hospitals, institutes and also government."

"Together with my experience, I can tell you - this is created in a lab."

Dr. Yan fled Hong Kong on April 28 on a Cathay Pacific flight to the United States. She believes her life is in danger, and that she can never go back home.

"The reason I came to the U.S. is because I deliver the message of the truth of COVID," Yan told Fox News in July.

As we reported at the time:

Yan said that discussion between colleagues in China about the disease took a sharp turn after "doctors and researchers who had been openly discussing the virus suddenly clammed up." Contacts in Wuhan went completely dark and others warned not to ask them about the virus - telling Yan "We can't talk about it, but we need to wear masks."

"There are many, many patients who don't get treatment on time and diagnosis on time," said Yan, adding "Hospital doctors are scared, but they cannot talk. CDC staff are scared."

"I already know that would happen because I know the corruption among this kind of international organization like the WHO to China government, and to China Communist Party," said Yan. "So basically... I accept it but I don't want this misleading information to spread to the world."

WHO denies that Professor Malik Peiris directly works for the organization, telling Fox in a statement "Professor Malik Peiris is an infectious disease expert who has been on WHO missions and expert groups - as are many people eminent in their fields," adding "That does not make him a WHO staff member, nor does he represent WHO."

When and where the interview was conducted? In USA and in July 2020.

Dr. Li-Meng Yan was acting as a whistle blower whereas she is not. Her interview was full of loop holes.

Being a virologist, a Lab rat, how can she have "an intelligence network in hospitals, institutes and Government". Unless she herself was working in an intelligence agency - CIA.

A CIA stooge, falsely claiming her immediate boss was working in WHO reference lab, whereas WHO is denying it that he worked directly as a staff of WHO.

It appears that she was given money and some sort of incentive to settle in USA by a CIA recruiter and in return she was to narrate this false story of COVID created at Wuhan Lab.

 

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Not even Trump is that dumb enough to endorse her publicly.

 

[beijingwalker]

What is there for Conspiracy. She is virologist from Wuhan. It is coming straight from the horse mouth.

She is from Wuhan?

 

[khanmubashir]

Twitter is controlled by China propaganda machine? LOL

And going by fox so is most of USA media

 

[beijingwalker]

What is there for Conspiracy. She is virologist from Wuhan. It is coming straight from the horse mouth.

Keep lying, who told you she is from Wuhan?

 

[gambit]

It appears that she was given money and some sort of incentive to settle in USA by a CIA recruiter and in return she was to narrate this false story of COVID created at Wuhan Lab.

The genetic codes of the virus is known, so the wise thing to do is to keep quiet about what she claims -- to date -- to know about the origin of the virus. If she comes out and start pointing out certain genetic marker(s) that at least strongly suggests the virus is of manufactured origin, all of you will end up with eggs on your faces. Of course, YOU have nothing to lose since you are just an anonymous face on an Internet forum, but if what she has is true, YOU can just quietly slink away while China struggles with the PR fallout.

 

[TheSnakeEatingMarkhur]

What is there for Conspiracy. She is virologist from Wuhan. It is coming straight from the horse mouth.

Yeah Virologist supported by a fraudster

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

If the story is fake, her career is done for good. No one will give job correct?

She has been exposed as a fraud by Hong Kong investigative journalists.
No. She has never worked in any Chinese biological laboratory before. She is one of those supporters of the fake pro-democracy Black Revolutionary Guards and this is her contribution. Who knows she may be well paid via Benny Lai clandestine organisation.

I would investigate this instead.

https://sgtalk.org/mybb/Thread-Sorry-we-played-an-evil-part-in-the-outbreak-of-COVID-19

 

[Marker]

The genetic codes of the virus is known, so the wise thing to do is to keep quiet about what she claims -- to date -- to know about the origin of the virus. If she comes out and start pointing out certain genetic marker(s) that at least strongly suggests the virus is of manufactured origin, all of you will end up with eggs on your faces. Of course, YOU have nothing to lose since you are just an anonymous face on an Internet forum, but if what she has is true, YOU can just quietly slink away while China struggles with the PR fallout.

Why the world should suspect only China? Why not USA or any other Western Country. The virus if it is engineered, then it could be engineered at Western or US Lab. We all know genetic origin can also be engineered.

There was a strong rumor that the virus was smuggled in China by visiting US soldiers.

By the way who is stopping her to speak out. She is already in US under the protection US Intelligence Agencies.

The interview transcript clearly reveals the level of knowledge she have.

This is what she stated about the virus:
"The virus is a "Frankenstein" which was designed to target humans which was intentionally released."
"There is evidence left in the genome".

 

[bbccdd1470]

So basically she's from Hongkong, not Wuhan. So not an eye witness.

I had my intelligence through my network in China, involved in the hospitals, institutes and also government."

This narrative remind us of Minnie Chan's article in SCMP. Or Youtubers like Serpentza that claim that he still have friends in China.

Her story was reported a month ago, at that time she claimed she was part of the virology team from University of HK and did research there, where it was rebuttal by University of HK later. Even the pro-western Media in HK won't report this anymore due to her credibility since she can lie about her credential, what else she can not lie about. Her story is more likely a propaganda.

 

[tower9]

Why the world should suspect only China? Why not USA or any other Western Country. The virus if it is engineered, then it could be engineered at Western or US Lab. We all know genetic origin can also be engineered.

There was a strong rumor that the virus was smuggled in China by visiting US soldiers.

By the way who is stopping her to speak out. She is already in US under the protection US Intelligence Agencies.

The interview transcript clearly reveals the level of knowledge she have.

This is what she stated about the virus:
"The virus is a "Frankenstein" which was designed to target humans which was intentionally released."
"There is evidence left in the genome".

Considering that the virus came with a whole program of pre-meditated political maneuvers on the part of the Neoliberal deep state, the virus is most likely a covert CIA plot. This isn't the first time the CIA has used bioweapons, along with color revolutions, it is a well known part of their arsenal of tools.

 

[Slav Defence]

Are you referring to same Tucker Carlson who claimed that Facebook recently is "deliberately" putting up "restrictions" on viewership upon his shows on Covid 19?
Grow up man, watch these shows for fun only and do not take literal meanings of everything these people accuse of as if they will not come up with new stories than how their trp will be maintained?

regards

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID, the former top Trump strategist now facing felony fraud charges

The study goes against basically all scientific evidence and expert opinion. But it fits with the former Trump adviser’s anti-China posture.

Adam Rawnsley
Lachlan Markay
Reporter
Updated Sep. 15, 2020 9:25PM ET / Published Sep. 15, 2020 3:16PM ET

A new study purporting to show that the novel coronavirus was manufactured in a Chinese lab was published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Steve Bannon, the former top Trump strategist now facing felony fraud charges.

The study, co-authored by a Chinese virologist who fled Hong Kong this year, claims that “laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CoV-2.” Its findings were quickly picked up by a handful of prominent news organizations such as the New York Post, which hyped the “explosive” allegations that run counter to virtually all existing scientific literature on the source of the virus.


The study is the work of the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, sister nonprofit organizations that Bannon was instrumental in creating. According to documents posted on the Society’s website last year, he served as that group’s chair. The Bannon connection was first spotted by Kevin Bird, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, and shared by Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, who called the study “bizarre and unfounded.”

A search of Google Scholar and the Rule of Law Society and Rule of Law Foundation websites indicates that the organizations have not previously published scientific or medical research, and it’s unclear whether the paper received any peer review. It was posted on Monday on the website Zenodo, a publicly available repository of scientific and academic research to which anyone can upload their work.

Both of the nonprofits behind the study were formed in conjunction with exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, with whom Bannon has collaborated on a number of advocacy efforts targeting the Chinese government and business endeavors that have drawn the scrutiny of federal law enforcement officials.


In addition to their work on the Rule of Law nonprofits, Bannon and Guo have also collaborated on a news website, G News, that has published stories suggesting that the coronavirus was manufactured by the Chinese military.

In July, Bannon appeared to tease forthcoming scientific studies supporting his contention that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. He told the Daily Mail that scientists from the lab had “defected” to the U.S. and were collaborating with American intelligence agencies. On the “War Room: Pandemic” podcast, Bannon has hosted others who have speculated that the virus may have been a Chinese “bioweapon,” but he has said that he believes the most plausible explanation is that it “came out of experiments that were going on” at that Wuhan lab.

That’s a line that has been echoed by some prominent U.S. officials. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both alluded to intelligence reports supporting that theory. “This evidence is circumstantial, to be sure,” wrote Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) in an April column for the Wall Street Journal, “but it all points toward the Wuhan labs.”


While an accidental leak from the virology lab in Wuhan remains a theoretical possible source of the initial outbreak in the city, the vast majority of the scientific literature on the virus has determined that its origins were natural, and that it was not laboratory manufactured. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Trump administration’s coronavirus point-person, has stressed repeatedly that all evidence indicates the virus was not man-made.


The study published by Bannon’s group on Monday is therefore particularly incendiary. “This virus is not from nature,” declared Dr. Li-Meng Yan, one of the scientists who conducted the study, during a Monday appearance on a British talk show. She called reports that the virus originated in a Wuhan meat market “a smoke screen” designed to obscure its true origins.

But other virologists disagree and say the paper makes false claims about a number of basic facts. “Basically, it's all circumstantial and some of it is entirely fictional,” Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, told The Daily Beast of the study.

The paper leads with a claim that the coronavirus' genes are "suspiciously similar to that of a bat coronavirus discovered by military laboratories" in China—an assertion Rasmussen says shouldn’t be surprising because “they are related SARS-like coronaviruses.”


The study’s authors made a similar claim about a portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—which viruses use to breach and infect cells—and wrote that it’s similar to the original SARS virus in a “suspicious manner” and suggests genetic manipulation. “SARS-CoV also used ACE2 as a cellular receptor, as do other SARS-like bat coronaviruses,” Rasmussen says. “It is not suspicious and is in fact expected that the receptor binding domains that bind the same protein would be similar.”

Rasmussen also said that the paper misrepresented basic facts about another part of coronavirus spike proteins known as furin cleavage sites. The authors claim that SARS-CoV-2’s cleavage site is “unique” and unseen elsewhere in nature. But according to Rasmussen, “Furin cleavage sites occur naturally in many other beta-CoVs, including MERS-CoV and other SARS-like bat coronaviruses.”

Yan has said that she fled China to avoid reprisals from the government there over her allegations that it was not being forthcoming about the origin and nature of the virus. She said she warned officials in December that the virus was highly transmissible between humans but that her allegations were ignored.

The University of Hong Kong’s school of public health, where Yan was employed, has disputed her allegations that the university failed to heed her warnings prior to the outbreak in China.

In August, Yan appeared on Bannon’s podcast. During that show, Bannon said that he was “still not in the camp that believes they purposely let it out but I’ve been strongly in the camp from the beginning that it came out of the Wuhan P4 lab.”

Unrelated to his work with the Rule of Law groups, Bannon is also facing felony charges over what federal prosecutors say was an effort to extract millions of dollars from a nonprofit seeking to privately finance the construction of a wall on the southern U.S. border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Following publication of this piece, Yan appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson's primetime program on Tuesday night. After Yan reiterated her claims that the virus was developed in a lab and that the Chinese government released it intentionally, Carlson—who has become one of Fox's loudest coronavirus skeptics—offered up a big caveat at the end of the interview.

“Unfortunately this is not the forum for the details of your research,” he said. "I don’t have the grounding to ask you the right questions but this is where you wish for a functioning media because what you just said completely changes everything we think we know about the pandemic that is wrecking our country.”

Bannon's name, meanwhile, did not come up once in the segment.

Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID

The study goes against basically all scientific evidence and expert opinion. But it fits with the former Trump adviser’s anti-China posture.

www.thedailybeast.com

It is entirely plausible that the virus actually evolved naturally within the phylogenetically diverse and insulated biome that exists on Steve Bannon's perpetually self-renewing skin surface. I hope the WWF moves to preserve his multiple layers of dermatological uniqueness each as its own independent and protected habitat for the future conservation of any novel species types that may emerge therein.

 

[Nan Yang]

Chinese defector's study claiming that Covid-19 was manufactured in a lab was published by groups founded by former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and billionaire Beijing exile

• Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui founded the non-profits in November 2018
• On Monday, study claiming covid was engineered by Wuhan lab was printed
• Global scientific community poured scorn on the non-peer reviewed report
• Comes after Bannon was arrested on fraud charges on Guo's yacht on Aug. 20
• Bannon denies unlawfully raising $25m for the We Build The Wall campaign

By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:06 EDT, 16 September 2020 | UPDATED: 08:28 EDT, 16 September 2020

A Chinese defector's study claiming that Covid-19 was manufactured in a lab was published by groups founded by former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and a billionaire Beijing exile.

The scientific paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, claims the disease was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses and that a spike protein was edited to enhance its ability to latch onto human cells.

Scientists have slammed the report published on Monday as 'unsubstantiated' and said it 'cannot be given any credibility.'

The study was produced by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, sister organisations which Bannon, 66, founded with 50-year-old Chinese fugitive Guo Wengui.

US President Donald Trump (left) congratulates Steve Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (left) and Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui at a news conference on November 20, 2018 in New York

The Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation's report was authored by Li-Meng Yan (giving an interview to British TV last week), who purports to be a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health

The P4 laboratory (C) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. There have been numerous theories that the virus spread from this lab

The study was authored by Li-Meng Yan, who purports to be a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, and who has recently appeared on Fox News in the US and ITV in the UK.

Ms Yan's report has gained widespread public attention, being viewed more than 150,000 times since it was posted on the website Zenodo, which is operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research to promote open scientific data.

Documents posted on the Rule of Law Society's website last year showed Bannon was the New York-based group's chairman, The Daily Beast reported.

Neither the Rule of Law Society nor the Rule of Law Foundation appear to have published scientific or medical research before.

Guo, a real-estate tycoon and member of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, pledged $100 million to the Rule of Law Society to be led by Bannon. The pair announced the endeavour in 2018 and Bannon told the New York Times that he would take no pay.

The charities' stated mission is: 'To expose corruption, obstruction, illegality, brutality, false imprisonment, excessive sentencing, harassment, and inhumanity pervasive in the political, legal, business and financial systems of China.'

Bannon and Guo have also worked together on G News, which publishes anti-Communist Part articles in both English and Chinese, and which has propagated the theory that coronavirus was manufactured in a lab.

The theory was widely reported earlier this year and Trump suggested he had since intelligence reports to support the claims.

Trump continued to make the allusions despite the US national intelligence director's office saying in April that the virus was 'not manmade or genetically modified.'

The White House's chief coronavirus strategist, Dr Anthony Fauci, has also stated emphatically that the virus was not manufactured.

Bannon on Guo's $35 million yacht off the coast of Connecticut before his arrest last month

Billionaire Guo Wengui poses at his New York City apartment on November 28, 2017

Bannon and Guo Wengui (also known as Miles Kwok) appear at a news conference in New York, New York, U.S., November 20, 2018

In July, Bannon told the Mail on Sunday that spies were building a case against Beijing on the basis that the pandemic was caused by a leak from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan and that the subsequent cover-up was tantamount to 'pre-mediated murder.'

But the timing of the Bannon-backed scientific study comes months after Mike Pompeo backed off from the lab idea.

The Secretary of State told Breitbart that 'we know it began in Wuhan, but we don't know from where or from whom, and those are important things.'

He had previously said that there was 'enormous evidence' and a 'significant amount of evidence' that the virus originated in a lab.

In her study, Ms Yan discounts the theory that coronavirus evolved in the wild and was then transferred to humans, claiming it 'lacks substantial support'.

'SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring virus,' she wrote.

'The evidence shows that [the virus] should be a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45 and/or ZXC21 as a template and/or backbone.'

She alleges the virus 'should' have been built using stores of these bat viruses, of which she claims samples are kept in Hong Kong and China.

Ms Yan also alleges that her work shows the virus could be built in just six months in the report's abstract, but she does not return to the subject later in the paper.

Dr Andrew Preston, an expert in microbial pathogenesis at the University of Bath, blasted her report as being 'reminiscent of a conspiracy theory'.

'The author's affiliation is the Rule of Law Society and Rule of Law Foundation, New York,' he said.

'On their website the vision of this organisation is 'to permit the people of China to live under a national system based on the rule of law, independent of the political system of the People's Republic of China' ...

'Given the unsubstantiated claims in the publication, which has not been peer reviewed, the report cannot be viewed with any credibility as it stands.'

It has been alleged that the Wuhan lab in China, pictured above, is where the coronavirus was developed. However, there is no evidence to back this claim

Dr Michael Head, a global health expert at the University of Southampton, said the conspiracy theory peddled by the report has been 'doing the rounds throughout the pandemic'.

'Ultimately, it could be damaging to public health if reported non-critically without looking at the wider evidence,' he said.

'If people are exposed to and then believe conspiracy theories, this will likely have a negative impact on efforts to keep Covid-19 cases low and thus there will be more deaths and illness than there needs to be.

'The genomics of the virus have been disentangled previously, for example a Nature peer-reviewed paper where they state 'Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory constructed or a purposefully manipulated virus'.

'Other evidence also shows that this type of coronavirus has existed in bats for decades. This new manuscript is not peer reviewed and does not obviously offer any data that overrides previous research.'

Ms Yan wrote in her paper that theories the virus is from nature and the meat market in Wuhan are a 'smoke screen', alleging she was told this by CDC scientists working in China.

She has previously accused Beijing of lying about when it learned of the killer infection and engaging in an extensive cover-up.

Ms Yan claims she fled to Hong Kong and escaped to America in April to 'raise awareness' of the pandemic.

Bannon leaving court in Manhattan on August 20, flags of the 'New Federal State of China', founded by Guo, fly behind him

Bannon is surrounded by journalists as he leaves court in Manhattan last month

She claims she was working at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, a reference laboratory for the World Health Organisation, but she was cut off after trying to alert people to human-to-human transmission of the virus in December.

She also claims that before leaving China her information was wiped from the Government database.

The lab has denied that Ms Yan ever 'conducted any research on human-to-human transmission' and said her assertions have 'no scientific basis'.

Bannon, 66, was arrested on Guo's yacht off the coast of Connecticut on August 20.

In an indictment with three others, Bannon is charged with unlawfully raising more than $25 million for the We Build The Wall campaign.

He pleaded not guilty and was bailed.

As he left the courthouse, he shouted: 'This entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall.'

 

[PakFactor]

The genetic codes of the virus is known, so the wise thing to do is to keep quiet about what she claims -- to date -- to know about the origin of the virus. If she comes out and start pointing out certain genetic marker(s) that at least strongly suggests the virus is of manufactured origin, all of you will end up with eggs on your faces. Of course, YOU have nothing to lose since you are just an anonymous face on an Internet forum, but if what she has is true, YOU can just quietly slink away while China struggles with the PR fallout.

Soon she’ll claim CPP was throwing Wuhan babies out of incubators like the Kuwaiti —
What a **** show the US has become.