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The French World News cover, dated April 28, focused on the situation in Alsace, France, where the pneumonia epidemic (Covid-19) in Wuhan was severe. Le Monde also reported that the European Union report on spreading false news in Beijing had withdrawn some criticism under pressure from Beijing. The report also revealed that Serbia was a tool for Beijing; Le Monde’s long-term investigation in Wuhan’s P4 lab revealed that Shi Zhengli was also anxious. It is noted that there are a large number of interns inside and outside the laboratory. It cannot be ruled out that some people made mistakes, but there is no evidence.
Serbia is China’s tool for the latest news
The French newspaper Le Monde reported that the European Union is “self-censoring” under pressure from Beijing, postponing the publication of the report and removing the words about spreading false news in Beijing. The EU report, which was supposed to be released on April 21, was postponed until April 21. Le Monde quoted the New York Times as saying that the European External Action Agency (SEAE) found that Beijing had published hundreds of false news around the world, aiming to ignore the responsibility of the Chinese authorities for the pandemic, praising its achievements. in the fight against the epidemic and criticizing the West. The country has not responded to the epidemic, criticized France for its slow response, etc. The false information was detected by the European Union’s foreign action genre via the Serbian online platform, some conspiracy theory social media and some official or semi-official news agencies, which are associated with Russia, Syria, Iran and China.
The New York Times revealed the original version of the EU report saying that Serbia, struggling to join the EU, has become a tool for China to spread false news. However, the news did not specify how Serbia used Beijing as a tool, only that the country has freely regulated the Internet. Some Chinese work directly there.
An email analyst from EU Foreign Action said the EU’s self-censorship set a “terrible precedent” that would encourage Beijing to continue to raise such obstacles in the future.
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Shi Zhengli anxious and insomnia, worried about laboratory leaks
Le Monde published an investigation at the Wuhan Virus Laboratory on April 25. The two authors are Raphaelle Bacque and Brice Pedroletti.
According to this survey, Shi Zhengli, director of the Wuhan P4 Laboratory virus infection center, felt anxiety and fear when Wuhan pneumonia broke out in December last year. He said that he had not closed his eyes for several nights and repeatedly recalled every investigation and every move of hers. Still wondering if the virus leaked from our labs?
Shi Zhengli studied at the University of Montpellier in France for several years. That’s because in addition to being able to speak a little French, the French Minister of Science and Technology awarded him an award, and everyone didn’t know much about it. But her popularity in China is very high, due to her achievements in bat research, she was hailed by the media as “Bat Girl”. In 2005, it identified two coronaviruses close to the SARS virus.
She has resumed research in recent years. She was extremely concerned that the genetic sequence would show that the killer (virus) in Wuhan was leaked by her department. She told Jane Qiu, a reporter for the American Science Monthly, “It is really ruining my mind and closing my eyes.”
The Le Monde survey also indicated that there are multiple Virus Research labs in Wuhan, and that Shi Zhengli’s research requires labs with security levels P3 and P4. The Sino-French cooperation P4 laboratory is located about 30 kilometers southwest of Wuhan, a light gray bunker flanked by towers and office buildings. Behind the laboratory is the forest. At first there were no other buildings around. Later, a nearby student dormitory was built.
The address and location of this P4 lab are hard to find. Both the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Google Maps incorrectly place it on the campus of the former virus research institute near East Lake.
P4 is the highest level of security and studies highly deadly viruses like Ebola. The lab was completed and accepted in 2017 and was put into use in early 2019.
Shi Zhengli is not the only one concerned with the safety of the laboratory. According to the Washington Post, US diplomats have also been concerned about the safety of this laboratory after visiting in 2018. It is believed that properly trained researchers and investigators are missing.
However, it is suspected that the Chinese first leaked the virus in the laboratory. Since the January low of this year, the Chinese Internet has been boiling. Netizens doubt the P4 lab and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control Center near the seafood market. The laboratory’s level of security is low. Expert Tian Junhua’s video of catching bats in a cave once circulated online. The French newspaper Le Monde quoted Chinese media as saying that in the past 12 years, Chinese researchers have found about 2,000 viruses, while other countries in the world have only found 284 viruses in the past 200 years. China is a world leader in basic virus research. The expert later admitted that the exposed skin was infected by the bat’s excretion and caused the infection, and he himself was isolated by touching the bat’s urine.
In addition, people are also concerned about the fate and whereabouts of Huang Yanling, an inmate at the Wuhan Virus Institute. Part of his resume was deleted on the virus institute’s website.
Famous host Cui Yongyuan tweeted a 10-day poll. Of the 10,000 people who responded, 51% believed that Wuhan’s pneumonia virus was accidentally leaked from the lab, 24% thought it had spread intentionally, and only 12% thought it was from nature.
The top level of the Chinese communist regime has also made an important decision: Major General Chen Wei of the PLA Chemical Protection Army arrived in Wuhan on January 31. At that time, the official media offered her “the same” passionate articles, describing her as the “goddess of war.” The official statement is that Major General Chen Wei went to the P4 laboratory to develop a coronavirus vaccine, but World News noted that if the top authority of the Chinese Communist Party does not doubt the Wuhan P4 laboratory, it would not send such a comprehensive envoy to research …
According to a survey by Le Monde, around six people in the Wuhan P4 laboratory had received training at the Merato Laboratory (Laboratoire Jean-Mérieux) in Lyon, France, for three weeks a few years ago. According to Branka Horvat, an immunovirologist in this laboratory, they practiced wearing protective clothing to dive thousands of times, learning how to manage breathing, calculating movements, cutting or connecting the gas supply valve, before starting the experiment each time. Be prepared carefully to avoid forgetting.
Le Monde said the Wuhan-P4 laboratory, which cooperates with France, has multiple pressure reduction locks that must be protected by a card reader system to open the door. Finally, there is an antifouling shower at the exit.
Le Monde said there were many more laboratory leaks than people thought, for example, in 2014, there were 2,349 samples of the SARS virus that were not found at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Fortunately, these samples are only part of the virus, which did not cause serious consequences. In 2014, some samples of anthrax not living in the United States were mistakenly shipped to all parts of the United States …
In Wuhan, as the epidemic spread worldwide, the laboratory leak hypothesis became a political problem. Four days after the Washington Post reported that US diplomats were concerned about the safety of the Wuhan P4 laboratory, Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan P4 laboratory and the “owner” of Shi Zhengli, said the virus could not come from here. Because there are very strict and clear regulations to prevent virus leakage. Yuan Zhiming is a microbiologist trained in China, France, and Denmark, and he only defends the reputation of the entire Chinese scientific research community. He is aware of local and foreign rumors about his laboratory, and the large number of students who enter and leave his laboratory. Its researchers sometimes take 20 students at the same time. (And a French researcher can bring up to three students). Yuan Zhiming’s eyes blinked to rule out the possibility of accidents for the inmates. He said with certainty that none of our students and researchers were infected.
There are many coronaviruses studied by the virus. Shi Zhengli and some of his team conduct “gain-of-function” experiments, which involves remodeling the viruses to make them more infectious, and then identifying weaknesses to test the treatment. Furthermore, Shi Zhengli published a result of the new virus genome on January 20 of this year, which showed that the virus that has not been recognized so far has 96% similarity to the RaTG13 bat coronavirus.
Compared to Chinese bigotry, the French side hesitated to book. The risk of biological contamination always worries observers looking at Chinese research. In particular, laboratories in all fields of research in China are competing. And China’s scientific research must first be a powerful tool for the country. French neuroscience expert Gernan Alexis Génin is interested in China as a scientific adviser to the Dafoh Anti-Smuggling Organs Association. He said that China’s scientific research projects are opaque and overly carried out, and sometimes do not comply with scientific medical ethics, which can lead to deviations.
He also said that in the quest for high productivity, many young researchers took turns experimenting, increasing the risk of operational errors and infections. As to whether the virus remodeled in Wuhan’s lab will leak, he said that only sending experts to the lab to verify and review the lab’s virology notebook can clarify this point. Epidemics often play the role of “whistleblower.”
The suspicion of the Wuhan P4 laboratory shows the difficulty of cooperation between France and China. So far, in France, there have been some disappointed companies, a small team of diplomats, and several senior Defense Ministry officials have protested extreme nationalism and China’s opaque behavior.
Insider of Franco-Chinese cooperation
Le Monde said the epidemic caused people to suddenly discover the internal history of cooperation between France and China. After the construction of this Wuhan P4 laboratory, in addition to March 2019, the French consulate in Wuhan visited here (the photo is on the wall as evidence), in fact, France was quickly excluded from the scope of the “laboratory” Outside.
Although Shi Zhengli and other Chinese researchers were received by the P4 laboratory in Lyon, France, “peer-to-peer” cooperation between the two countries is far from being realized. Even industrialist Merillo, which actively promotes cooperation with China, was evacuated after the Chinese side accepted the Wuhan P4. During the 18-month (non-poisoned) trial period before the opening of the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, Dr. René Courcol, a French infectious disease scientist, was sent to Wuhan by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Your task is to ensure that the P4 lab procedures are completed correctly. Are you really allowed to enter Wuhan P4? What advice do you have for Wuhan P4 today? A concern? He refused to answer Le Monde’s questions.
In fact, France has no idea what happened in the Wuhan P4 lab that was built. Hervé Raoul, director of the P4 laboratory in Lyon, who has participated largely in this Franco-Chinese cooperation project, said: “The design of the laboratory looks good, but to be sure, it depends on how it is in operational mode. I’ve been there. Several times, but I didn’t see it work. ” Mr. Raoul admitted that there are no French investigators at Wuhan P4. He said: I can’t think about how this lab works.
Le Monde said that, in general, the bilateral relationship that Jacques Chirac concluded in 2004 has become unilateral. This situation is typical in Franco-Chinese cooperation, and almost all Franco-Chinese cooperation projects in China have become like this.
