{"id":1372166,"date":"2022-03-11T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1372166"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:16:08","slug":"deep-think-china-says-america-drawn-to-bat-coronavirus-research-because-of-vampire-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deep-think-china-says-america-drawn-to-bat-coronavirus-research-because-of-vampire-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Think: China Says America Drawn to Bat Coronavirus Research Because of Vampire Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeep-think-china-says-america-drawn-to-bat-coronavirus-research-because-of-vampire-movies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1372166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s state-run\u00a0<em>Global Times\u00a0<\/em>propaganda newspaper mused on Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus may have originated in America because Americans love \u201cvampire-themed movies,\u201d leading them to have a \u201ccultural\u201d inclination to experiment with bat coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1254577.shtml\">editorial<\/a> by the Communist Party propaganda site made the assertion in a discussion on unsubstantiated accusations by the Russian government against America, accusing the United States of experimenting on \u201cbat coronavirus\u201d in laboratories in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, but greatly expanded its war on that country on February 24 and has since seized significant blocks of territory in the country. Moscow claimed this week that it captured a biological laboratory in the country funded by America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian government used its leverage at the United Nations Security Council to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/551668-russia-un-ukraine-biolabs\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">call<\/a> for an emergency meeting Friday to discuss alleged American \u201cmilitary biological programs\u201d in Ukraine, according to Russian government site RT.<\/p>\n<p>While the Russian government has not openly accused Ukraine or the United States of being the origin country of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, China has been much more liberal in making the suggestion. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/09\/russia-silent-on-wuhan-claims-american-labs-were-making-biological-weapons-in-ukraine\/\">called<\/a> for a global investigation into the alleged Ukrainian laboratories this week, calling them \u201cthe tip of the iceberg\u201d of supposed American biological weapons research. The\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> compared the alleged laboratories to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a viral research laboratory located in the origin location of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/03\/30\/w-h-o-chief-tedros-w-h-o-probe-into-wuhan-lab-not-extensive-enough\/\">called<\/a> to investigate more thoroughly for clues regarding how the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> expanded its unsubstantiated argument blaming America for the Wuhan pandemic by claiming Americans have a \u201ccultural\u201d interest in experimenting with coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is no smoke without fire. Some netizens commented that the Americans seem to have a special preference for making vampire-themed movies, and the prototype of the vampire comes from bat,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> declared.\u00a0\u201cThe Americans\u2019 experiments with bat coronavirus have cultural origins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS officials and media accused China of pushing conspiracy, but it is the US that is the No.1 player of conspiracy,\u201d the editorial continued. \u201cIn 2020, the Trump administration and conservative US media made the conspiracy theory of [Chinese coronavirus] escaping from China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The hype of the lab leak theory has been an integral part of the US\u2019 overall China containment strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the revelation that US-funded biological labs in Ukraine were conducting experiments with bat coronavirus samples, the US owes the world an explanation,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The state newspaper editorial followed an alleged revelation by the Russian Defense Ministry that Russian soldiers had found coronavirus samples in a seized Ukrainian laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the documents [obtained in the seized laboratories], the American side planned to conduct work on pathogens of birds, bats, and reptiles in Ukraine in 2022, with a further transition to studying the possibility of carrying African swine fever and anthrax,\u201d Ministry of Defence Major General Igor Konashenkov, a top spokesman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/11\/russia-stokes-chinas-conspiracy-theories-claims-u-s-linked-ukrainian-labs-housed-bat-coronavirus\/\">claimed<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cThe purpose of this \u2013 and other Pentagon-funded biological research in Ukraine, was to create a mechanism for the covert spread of deadly pathogens.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian state outlet Sputnik claimed that Konashenkov listed \u201cbat coronavirus\u201d among the discovered pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States does not own or operate any chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine, it is in full compliance with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention, and it does not develop or possess such weapons anywhere,\u201d State Department spokesman Ned Price said in response to the original accusations that America possessed a biological laboratory in Ukraine on Wednesday. \u201cIt is Russia that has active chemical and biological weapons programs and is in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The day before, U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518355-1\/secretary-state-political-affairs-testifies-ukraine&#038;live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0in a Congressional hearing that the U.S. had funded biological research in Ukraine but was not directly involved. She said her agency was \u201cquite concerned\u201d Russia would use laboratory contents for a biological attack.<\/p>\n<p>The official position of the Chinese government, as articulated by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, is that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/03\/12\/chinese-foreign-ministry-might-u-s-army-who-brought-epidemic-wuhan\/\">began<\/a> in Maryland as a result of an alleged laboratory leak at the U.S. Army\u2019s Fort Detrick facility. Beijing has held this position even while promoting the W.H.O.\u2019s conclusions, following an investigation largely contained by China in Wuhan, that a laboratory leak causing the pandemic was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/30-03-2021-who-calls-for-further-studies-data-on-origin-of-sars-cov-2-virus-reiterates-that-all-hypotheses-remain-open\">extremely unlikely<\/a>\u201d (Tedros criticized this conclusion, saying the investigation into the WIV was not \u201cextensive enough\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>No evidence exists of any Chinese coronavirus infections in humans prior to November 17, 2019, the date that leaked Chinese government documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/03\/13\/report-chinese-regime-data-puts-first-wuhan-coronavirus-case-in-november\/\">identify<\/a>\u00a0as when doctors diagnosed the first case in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located. No evidence suggests any coronavirus infections occurring in either Ukraine or the United States before then, or anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zhao and other Foreign Ministry spokespeople, such as top mouthpiece Hua Chunying, have argued that America obscured its early coronavirus cases by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/07\/09\/chinese-foreign-ministry-coronavirus-vaping\/\">diagnosing<\/a> them as e-cigarette lung injuries. The Chinese coronavirus is a highly infectious disease, while injuries are not transmissible from person to person. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has yet to explain why no health workers or others exposed to those diagnosed with lung injuries did not \u201ccontract\u201d lung injuries from exposure, if these injuries were, in fact, coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>China appears to be promoting the Fort Detrick conspiracy theory allowing with demanding an investigation into coronavirus \u201corigins\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding US bio labs across the world, many questions remain to be answered. The international community has no idea whether the US\u2019 336 overseas bio labs and the labs on its soil such as Fort Detrick conform to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC),\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> claimed, \u201cwhile what is conducted inside these bio labs involves human security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhao, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202203\/t20220310_10650654.html\">demanded<\/a> simultaneous international investigations into Fort Detrick and Ukrainian labs during Thursday\u2019s regular press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has no knowledge about what the US has been doing at Fort Detrick on\u2002its territory and the 336 biological labs overseas, or whether the activities conform to the stipulations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC),\u201d Zhao said, a remark the <em>Global Times<\/em> echoed almost verbatim. \u201cThis is not something you can muddle through in a few words. It is even irresponsible to dismiss the concerns of the international community as \u2018disinformation.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe once again urge the US to earnestly fulfill its international obligations, give a clear account of its bio-military activities both at home and abroad and accept multilateral verification, and complete the destruction of its chemical weapons arsenal as soon as possible,\u201d Zhao said, not directly mentioning the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646741052292000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3Jkadm_idMfRvYD7Dxb3RK\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646741052292000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0YtInSFC5lkse_UNb1Eg2K\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run\u00a0Global Times\u00a0propaganda newspaper mused on Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus may have originated in America because Americans love \u201cvampire-themed movies,\u201d leading them to have a \u201ccultural\u201d inclination to experiment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}