{"id":566620,"date":"2021-06-17T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566620"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:36:21","slug":"former-state-dept-investigator-says-if-chinas-not-asking-for-help-they-probably-know-covid-19s-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-state-dept-investigator-says-if-chinas-not-asking-for-help-they-probably-know-covid-19s-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Former State Dept. Investigator Says If China\u2019s Not Asking For Help, They Probably Know COVID-19\u2019s Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fformer-state-dept-investigator-says-if-chinas-not-asking-for-help-they-probably-know-covid-19s-origins%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=566620&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-17-at-9.36.21-AM-e1623939095843.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former State Department coronavirus investigator Dr. David Asher said Thursday he believed China probably knew the origins of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Asher spoke with anchors Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom,\u201d and he argued that if China was not actively seeking help from other nations to root out the source of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/covid-19-david-asher-mike-pompeo-world-health-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19<\/a>, they most likely reason for that was that they already knew.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/chinese-feel-pain-economically-david-asher-investigator-covid-commission-david-asher\/\">(RELATED: \u2018The Chinese Need To Feel The Pain Economically\u2019: Former State Dept. Investigator Wants COVID-19 Commission)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hemmer noted that Fox News White House correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/biden-balks-peter-doocy-chinese-president-xi-old-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Doocy<\/a> had pressed President Joe Biden on the issue, asking what the Biden administration planned to do to get answers \u2014 or at the very least, cooperation \u2014 out of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/13\/g7-nations-world-health-organization-investigation-covid-19-origins-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beijing<\/a> as they continued to search for the origins of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He turned the question to Asher, pointing out the fact that he had not received much cooperation from Beijing when he was a part of the investigation and asking what he expected in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll get zero answers out of Beijing in the future,\u201d Asher replied. \u201cIf they were willing to cooperate they would have done so a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asher went on to say that, in the cases of previous outbreaks, China had actively sought outside help to find the origins of viruses \u2013 and their refusal to do so in this case suggested that they already had the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would have thought that if they didn\u2019t know exactly where this thing came from they would ask us for help to try to figure it out \u2014 and the world community \u2014 like they did in SARS, MERS, and the avian flu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hemmer shared a tweet from Josh Rogin, who argued that Biden did not seem willing to put real pressure on China in order to get answers. \u201cBiden doesn\u2019t seem willing to do anything concrete to pressure China to allow a real covid origin investigation. Says China is not really trying to figure it out, but nothing on what he will do to figure it out,\u201d Rogin tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.439215686275\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden doesn\u2019t seem willing to do anything concrete to pressure China to allow a real covid origin investigation. Says China is not really trying to figure it out, but nothing on what he will do to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin\/status\/1405223041911623682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Asher agreed with Rogin\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless we adopt a much more coercive strategy, unless we put on sanctions economically, civil litigation and other special measures against the Chinese government\u2019s intransigence, I don\u2019t expect them to offer any cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Department coronavirus investigator Dr. David Asher said Thursday he believed China probably knew the origins of the novel coronavirus.Asher spoke with anchors Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280560,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-17-at-9.36.21-AM-e1623939095843.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former State Dept. 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