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The Trump Administration has made cracking down on Chinese academic and corporate espionage a priority, and has made several arrests of Chinese nationals working in critical roles funneling info back to China. But this is probably the most high-profile case to date, since one of the suspects is a pioneering American scientist.

Interestingly enough, not long after news of the arrests hit the press, another report surfaced claiming China had rejected President Trump's offer of assistance to contain the coronavirus - even as Wuhan is in desperate need of supplies.

Is that just a coincidence?

China bribed Harvard Chemistry Head in espionage case; 2 of his staff tried to smuggle biological materials to Wuhan

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-chemistry-chair-2-chinese-nationals-arrested-lying-about-china-ties-smuggling

Harvard Chemistry Chair & Two Chinese Nationals Arrested For Lying About China Ties, Smuggling "Biological Material"

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 01/28/2020 - 13:19

Will this Harvard Chemistry Department Head be remembered as the Aldrich Ames of the modern-day 'Cold War'?

In a shocking revelation made Tuesday afternoon - a revelation that will almost certainly rattle the US-China relationship at an already fragile time - a federal court unsealed indictments against Harvard professor and Chemistry Department Head Charles Lieber, along with two Chinese nationals. One is a Boston University researcher who was once a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army, according to prosecutors, and the second was a cancer researcher who tried to smuggle 21 vials of biological materials in his sock - allegedly. Lieber has been arrested, though it's not clear if he's still in custody.

Though the official charge was lying to investigators, Lieber's actions look like an unvarnished attempt at espionage, complete with an extremely seductive monetary reward.

Lieber was reportedly paid $50,000 a month by Wuhan University of Technology for participating in its "Thousand Talents" program, and was given more than $1.5 million to establish a lab and do research at Wuhan University of Technology, according to federal prosecutors in Boston, according to WSJ.

According to prosecutors, Lieber deliberately lied to defense department officials about his "foreign research collaborations."

When Defense Department investigators asked Mr. Lieber in 2018 about his foreign research collaborations, he told them he had never been asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program, the complaint said. But Mr. Lieber had signed such a talent contract with Wuhan University in 2012, the complaint said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-chemistry-chair-2-chinese-nationals-arrested-lying-about-china-ties-smuggling?fbclid=IwAR1jtoVrID7yk6nJvJwK5xQWFu7_zZIURoIhD08zx4HEy19ccsM3y4jFYJI

China and Viruses: Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and illegal Shipments from Winnipeg to China

https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-biological-warfare/?fbclid=IwAR0GERfYVnCllc48U2QhQjew_B_eS4i865ZFGwJEdA4MHnln9QcDCVU0CYU

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related?fbclid=IwAR3P0K2aOUtAZ7vQ7typ9VSOp6dfueOT5WhfVeiI6IVfLijnC7XQ9yeZjNM

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/?fbclid=IwAR3jAADso8wUCxey-clCtARHR8sNF_6046woA_2rBCZr1BBSCh5eVnsCrDk

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A huge Thank You to Peter Myers for compiling this goldmine of information, material & resources!

1. Director of Wuhan Institute of Virology issued a notice to researchers on Jan. 2 forbidding anyone to release info on COVID19

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1229422827465592832

1. Evidence is presented here that 2019-nCoV Virus was engineered by virologists in a lab:

They are also suppressing evidence of Chinese espionage at Western universities. However, espionage at Harvard University (Charles Lieber and two Chinese nationals) and Winnipeg NML lab (Xiangguo Qiu) is well attested.

In both cases, there was a connection to Wuhan. In Lieber's case, Wuhan University of Technology; and in Qiu's case, Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Nature journal reported in 2015 that a bat virus had been engineered at the University of North Carolina (UNC): "Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells."

One of the leaders in this project was Shi Zhengli-Li; she used to work at the University of North Carolina, and obtained US Research Grants, but then became head of Wuhan BSL-4 Bio-Lab.

Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said that the researchers have created a novel virus that "grows remarkably well" in human cells. "If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," he said.

Now we know.

Zheng-Li Shi (also written Zhengli Shi, Shi Zhengli, and Shi Zheng-Li) is a Professor, and director of WIV's P4 lab.

She and Xingyi Ge (also from WIV) did the genetic engineering for Ralph Baric at UNC, to develop a Coronavirus that could infect humans directly without animal mediation.

The spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV contains a cleavage absent in CoV - showing that it was engineered rather than evolved.

Asians show a similar ACE2 expression to other races; this means that 2019-nCoV will affect all races. Deliberate release is therefore unlikely, because it will spread worldwide.

In Nov 2017, Wuhan Institute of Virology reported 'Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses' (item 9). Zheng-Li Shi is listed in that article as having the role of "Project administration, Supervision".

Scientists from other countries were also involved in the research at Uni North Carolina, and the same would apply to Harvard and Winnipeg. But only Chinese have been implicated in smuggling genetic material to China (in the Harvard & Winnipeg cases).

Only Chinese have obtained Resaearch Grants in the USA, and used that money to promote research in China.

This is a big issue for our Universities, which are hotbeds of Multiculturalism. They have welcomed these Chinese scientists as migrants, and given them full rights, only to have China claim them back via its Thousand Talents Program. China regards all Chinese overseas as Chinese citizens. Its Thousand Talents Program, pitched at universities in the West, is a means of Technology Transfer to China.

Now the Universities are endangering public safety by pressing governments to allow fee-paying students from China to return, despite the risk to the local population.

The SCMP of 27 Feb, 2020 reports that Chinese scientists at Nankai University discovered a HIV-like "mutation" in 2019-nCoV. This recalls Indian scientists' earlier 'discredited' claim that Coronavirus was engineered to incorporate parts of the HIV genome. See item 28 below.

The SCMP report says, "Research by team from Nankai University shows new virus has mutated gene similar to those found in HIV and Ebola."

Ebola was one of the viruses smuggled from Winnipeg to Wuhan Institute of Virology by Dr. Xiangguo Qiu; see items 15 & 16 below.

1. Zhengli Shi links the bio-engineering of a virulent bat-based coronavirus at University of North Carolina (UNC) to the BSL-4 virology lab in Wuhan

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

1. Chinese article tracing Covid-19 to Wuhen biolab, since removed: 'The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus'

ORIGINAL AT https://www.docdroid.net/EZUN6cB/originsof2019-ncov-xiaob-res.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128

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1. Nature journal (2015): Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research; Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research

Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.

The above comments relate to the research at the University of North Carolina, as reported in this paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

http://mailstar.net/coronavirus.html

https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-biological-warfare/?fbclid=IwAR2bQvJ8aoGvXcsC-c4Tk9B_vRcCqkAwO3vQHg8P860SCdrzFpsV1H1kzWY

1. (5) Wuhan Lab (Prof. Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge) did the genetic engineering for Ralph Baric at UNC

https://deplorablecoder.club/index.php?id=10725

Wuhan Lab did the genetic engineering for Baric (publicplace)

Actual website of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (the bioweapons lab) confirming two of their scientists are the ones that did the genetic engineering for Ralph Baric of the SARS virus to make it hyper dangerous to humans (engineered a bioweapon)

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Research2016/Research_Progress2016/201712/t20171215_187953.html

Recently, Prof. Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge from WIV, in cooperation with researchers from University of North Carolina, Harvard Medical School, Bellinzona Institute of Microbiology and etc, examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus..

Here's Baric's paper showing their names: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/

SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose threat for human emergence

Zhengli-Li Shi - Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Xing-Yi Ge - Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

This PROVES - with highly credible references - that the Wuhan lab has actively and successfully genetically engineered and tested SARS contagions specifically designed to create global pandemics capable of wiping out much of the human species.

Comment (Peter M.): "… But they knew that they were playing with fire. Other virologists had sounded the alarm over what they were doing.

The Nature article referenced in item 4above, 'Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research', referring to engineering in which Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge were involved, reports:

'Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that "grows remarkably well" in human cells. "If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," he says.'

1. (6) Prof. Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge from WIV, in cooperation with University of North Carolina

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Research2016/Research_Progress2016/201712/t20171215_187953.html

whiov = Wuhan Institute of Virology; CAS = Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. The spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV contains a cleavage absent in CoV - showing that it was engineered rather than evolved

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166354220300528

1. Wuhan Institute of Virology reports 'Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses' (Nov 2017)

Nearly all of these authors are from Wuhan Institute of Virology (=WIV).

CAS = Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zheng-Li Shi is listed as having the role of "Project administration, Supervision".

Peter Daszak, an American, is listed as having the roles of "Funding acquisition, Writing ­ review & editing".

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698

Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus

10) Professor Shi Zhengli is Director of the P4 lab at Wuhan Institute of Virology

Her photo is at http://archive.is/QIBmE/e4db79e76096564291cea980219a2b374e760304.jpg.

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/ne/201903/t20190308_206697.html

Prof. SHI Zhengli elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

1. (11) Chinese patent for coronavirus S gene (2004)

https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1276777C/en?q=pshuttle-SN&oq=pshuttle-SN

SARS vaccine of adenovirus vector and preparation method, application of coronavirus S gene

1. (12) Chinese Patent genetic engineering protein FSPA relevant to S protein of coronavirus SARS- CoV (2005)

http://europepmc.org/article/pat/CN1990502

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1. Nanoscientist Charles Lieber lied about his involvement in China's Thousand Talents Plan

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-chemistry-chair-charged-on-alleged-undisclosed-ties-to-china-11580228768

Harvard Chemistry Chairman Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China

Charles Lieber is accused of lying to Defense Department, National Institutes of Health about Chinese government funding

The chairman of Harvard University's chemistry department was arrested on charges of lying about receiving millions of dollars in Chinese funding, in an escalation of U.S. efforts to counter what officials said is a plot by Beijing to mine U.S. universities to catapult China to the forefront of scientific development.

A federal criminal complaint alleges that Charles Lieber, a pioneer in nanotechnology, misled the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health about his participation in China's Thousand Talents Plan while the U.S. agencies were spending more than $15 million to fund his research group in the U.S.

Through its government-backed Thousand Talents Plan and hundreds of similar programs, China pays scientists around the world to moonlight at Chinese institutions, often without disclosing the work to their primary employers.

The case was one of three presented Tuesday by federal authorities in Massachusetts, with each underscoring U.S. concerns that the Chinese government is trying to obtain cutting-edge U.S. research by exploiting U.S. universities and their professors and researchers. Prosecutors have brought a series of cases charging Chinese Americans and Chinese nationals working in the U.S., prompting concern in the scientific community that authorities were racially profiling people. Mr. Lieber is among the first non-Chinese scientists and highest-profile targets to date.

As part of the Thousand Talents program, Wuhan University of Technology gave Mr. Lieber more than $1.5 million to set up a research lab in China, according to the complaint. The school also agreed to pay him a $50,000 monthly salary and offered about $150,000 in annual living expenses for "significant periods" from 2012 to 2017, it said.

In exchange, Mr. Lieber was required to work for WUT at least nine months a year by "declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of" the Chinese school, the complaint said.

Mr. Lieber, 60 years old, appeared in court Tuesday and was remanded to federal custody pending a detention hearing set for Thursday.

Harvard Professor Charged With Hiding Ties to China Released on $1M Bond

Charles Lieber, formerly chair of the chemistry and chemical biology department, allegedly agreed to conduct research, publish articles and apply for patents on behalf of China's Wuhan University of Technology in exchange for $50,000 per month and about $150,000 in living expenses

1. Federal prosecutors in Boston also announced charges this week against a researcher at Boston University, who is accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military. Yanqing Ye, who prosecutors say is a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army, lied about her military service to get into the U.S. and researched U.S. military projects and gathered information on two U.S. scientists for the Chinese military, authorities allege.

(20) Also charged: Yanqing Ye (PLA, works at Harvard); Zaosong Zheng (smuggled 21 vials of biological samples)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51288854

US charges three researchers with lying about links to China –28 January 2020

Harvard University described the charges as "extremely serious" The US has charged a Harvard professor and two Chinese researchers based in Boston with assisting the Chinese government. Harvard department chair Charles Lieber is accused of lying about his connections, while the researchers were charged with being foreign agents.

Mr Lieber allegedly accepted more than $1m in grant money from the Chinese government. Harvard University called the charges against him "extremely serious".

In a statement, the university added: "Professor Lieber has been placed on indefinite administrative leave." Who else was charged?

Prosecutors said Yanqing Ye, a Boston University robotics researcher, concealed the fact that she was in the Chinese army.

Ms Ye is accused of falsely identifying herself as a student and also continuing to work for the People's Liberation Army, while completing a number of assignments in the US.

Cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport with 21 vials of biological samples in his bag.

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Professor Francis Boyle, author of the BioWeapons Act, says Coronavirus is a Biological Warfare Weapon

https://greatgameindia.com/dr-francis-boyle-creator-of-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-biological-warfare-weapon/

Dr. Francis Boyle Creator Of BioWeapons Act Says Coronavirus Is Biological Warfare Weapon

TRANSCRIPT: Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle interview with Geopolitics & Empire on Coronavirus

https://greatgameindia.com/transcript-bioweapons-expert-dr-francis-boyle-on-coronavirus/

So a BSL-4 is the most serious type. And basically BSL-4 labs, we have many of them here in the United States, are used to develop offensive biological warfare weapons with DNA genetic engineering.

So it does seem to me that the Wuhan BSL-4 is the source of the coronavirus. My guess is that they were researching SARS, and they weaponize it further by giving it a gain of function properties, which means it could be more lethal. Indeed, the latest report now is it's a 15% fatality rate, which is more than SARS at 83% infection rate. A typical gain of function travels in the air so it could reach out maybe six feet or more from someone emitting a sneeze or a cough. Likewise, this is a specially designated WHO research lab. The WHO was in on it and they knew full well what was going on there.Dr. Francis Boyle: Well, it's criminality. It does appear they stole something there from Winnipeg. This activity that they engaged in clearly violates the Biological Weapons Convention. Research development of biological weapons these days is an international crime, the use of it would be. That was criminal. …leaked out of there and all these BSL-4 facilities leak. Everyone knows that who studies this. So this was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Unfortunately, it happened. The Chinese government under Xi and his comrades there have been covering this up from the get-go. The first reported case was December 1, so they'd been sitting on this until they couldn't anymore. And everything they're telling you is a lie. It's propaganda.

It said Tedros was over there shaking hands with Xi and smiling and yanking it up. The WHO was in on it. They've approved many of these BSL-4 labs., they know exactly what's going on and that is a WHO research-approved laboratory. They know what's going on too. You can't really believe anything the WHO is telling you about this, they're up to their eyeballs in it…" US-China new Cold War, which is currently characterized by economic warfare such as the trade war among other forms of hybrid and technological warfare. Dr. Francis Boyle: They're completely unsafe. BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs are only designed for research development testing of offensive biological warfare agents. A catastrophe waiting to happen. HIV-Like "Mutation" recalls Indian scientists claim: Coronavirus engineered to incorporate parts of HIV genome

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/coronavirus-hiv-mutation-suggests-nearly-1000x-more-likely-sars-infect

Scientists Discover HIV-Like "Mutation" Which Makes Coronavirus Extremely Infectious

While mainstream scientists continue to perform mental gymnastics to insist that the new coronavirus wasn't man-made, new research from scientists in China and Europe reveal that the disease happens to have an 'HIV-like mutation' which allows it to bind with human cells up to 1,000 times stronger than the Sars virus..New research by a team from Nankai University, which writes that COV-19 has an 'HIV-like mutation' that allows it to quickly enter the human body……. Chinese scientists had created an airborne version of HIV…" Chinese scientists: Coronavirus has 'mutated' gene similar to those found in HIV and Ebola

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052495/coronavirus-far-more-likely-sars-bond-human-cells-scientists-say

HIV and Ebola: {Ebola was one of the viruses smuggled from Winnipeg to Wuhan Institute of Virology by Dr. Xiangguo Qiu;

Coronavirus is a Communist China weapon against the US & Western Countries. Planted deliberately?

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Coronavirus has Mutated, Iran attacked by a Different Strain from Wuhan Posted by EU Times on Feb 26th, 2020 https://www.eutimes.net/2020/02/coronavirus-has-mutated-iran-attacked-by-a-different-strain-from-wuhan/

Coronavirus: Italian strain isolated at Sacco hospital 27 February 2020 http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/02/27/coronavirus-italian-strain-isolated-at-sacco-hospital_986ff0c2-7bd6-49fe-bbef-b3a0c1ebd6f4.html

Engineered pandemic ushers in New World Government? PNAC's advocacy of biological weapons, but also notes that Epoch Times reported China's Defense Minister Chi Haotian giving speeches advocating such weapons:

https://ahtribune.com/world/3930-who-or-what-started-the-wuhan-coronavirus.html

https://rense.com/general85/China'sPlanToConquer.htm

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/war-is-not-far-from-us-and-is-the-midwife-of-the-chinese-century.30888/

https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/stock-news/81966875/strategic-partnership-with-china-lies-at-root-of-i

"Iranian officials trace the origins of the country's coronavirus Qom,.. China Railway Engineering Corp. is building a $2.7 billion high-speed rail line through

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-vows-put-end-lab-leakage-pathogenic-samples

Strategic Partnership With China Lies at Root of Iran's Coronavirus Outbreak.

China's Communist Party has issued a serious "Wartime Order" demanding more care and containment be taken with virus handling.

https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=2&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://www.yangtse.com/zncontent/276541.html

Beijing CDC Party Committee Issues Wartime Status Order 2020-02-13

Wartime Status Order

Party Committee of Beijing Centers for Disease Control: In order to further discipline, compact responsibility, and ensure that all prevention and control work is carried out in an efficient and standardized manner, the Party Committee of the Beijing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a wartime state order, requiring its party members and employees to fully recognize the "critical period", "critical moment", and "key points". The urgency and importance of the moment, consciously established a "very conscious" and entered a "wartime state."

The first is to insist on using "state of war" to lead the thinking. […]

The second is to insist on strengthening implementation with "wartime standards." […]

The third is to strictly control contact with "wartime thinking." […]

The fourth is to insist on strict management with "wartime thinking."{…}

Fifth, we must adhere to the "wartime need" service guarantee. […]

Sixth, we must adhere to "war discipline" and take it seriously. […] ==

Francis Boyle update Update on Coronavirus, March 8, 2020 (video): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fEZr2psMQ ==

original: https://thesaker.is/continuation-of-the-kinda-open-thread/

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This is a goldmine of information and sources…down load before it disappears like so much information.

http://mailstar.net/coronavirus.html

A huge Thank You to Peter Myers for compiling this goldmine of information, material & resources!