{"id":538302,"date":"2021-05-24T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538302"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:50:23","slug":"pompeo-chinese-still-doing-disease-research-like-before-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-chinese-still-doing-disease-research-like-before-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo: Chinese Still Doing Disease Research Like Before COVID"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpompeo-chinese-still-doing-disease-research-like-before-covid%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=538302&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-167.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Chinese continue to&nbsp;conduct disease research in their laboratories like they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, so the United States has a responsibility to demand that the Chinese Communist Party disclose what it knows about the deadly virus and its beginnings, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party knows what happened here and where it began,&#8221; Pompeo, now a Fox News contributor, said on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221; &#8220;This is dangerous. We could end up with something much like this again being set up on the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments come after a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report revealed over the weekend that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/wuhan-lab-leak-accident\/2021\/05\/23\/id\/1022443\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">three researchers <\/a>from China&#8217;s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 outbreak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo pointed out that he, other members of the Biden administration, and conservatives were warning about the likelihood that the novel coronavirus had come from a Chinese lab.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spent a lot of time working on this problem, and in January, we were able to declassify a lot of material I knew about much earlier,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It was outrageous to see scientists, even government, U.S. government scientists denying this when they have surely must have seen the same information I saw. That includes Dr. [Anthony]&nbsp;Fauci as well. We need to know what happened here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo said that eventually&nbsp;there will be a straight answer about how the pandemic started, but it won&#8217;t come soon enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody will have worked in that laboratory and decide they can sneak out of China and tell the truth, I&#8217;m convinced,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Sadly, I don&#8217;t think it will happen in a timely fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he slammed the Biden administration&#8217;s moves to rejoin the World Health Organization &#8220;that rewards the Chinese,&#8221; in a reversal of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They colluded to keep this information out of the hands of the world,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;There are many things the United States government could do to impose real costs on the Chinese Communist Party until they come clean. We know they covered up this virus. I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;ll find the evidence consistent with a lab leak and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll see. If I&#8217;m wrong I hope the Chinese Communist Party will come forward and make a fool out of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo recalled that in early January 2020, the then-administration was working &#8220;so hard&#8221; to get information &#8220;when we were trying to figure out what was about to hit the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party had gone completely dark,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;They wouldn&#8217;t take phone calls or answer our questions. We sent inquiries. We couldn&#8217;t get a straight answer. Our ambassador couldn&#8217;t get a straight answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that China&#8217;s government&nbsp;&#8220;knew they had the problem and didn&#8217;t want the world to know it. They still have a problem and they still don&#8217;t want us to know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary of state also commented on reports about the forced diversion of a Ryanair plane to Belarus and the detention of an opposition journalist who was on board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are &#8220;lots of things&#8221; the Biden administration can do in response, Pompeo said, but there are also other entities like the European Union and NATO that could take &#8220;real action to impose costs on the Belarus leadership that demanded this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is outrageous to pull a commercial airplane out of the air just to get your hands around the journalist,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t like there was a terrorist on the plane or an immediate threat to anybody on the airplane. 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