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As each thread of the Wuhan coronavirus link is pulled, coincidences mount (or,
It doesn’t seem to be Soros, but you can see him from here)
By J.E. Dyer April 5, 2020

What a year 2015 was. It carried a lot of freight for the melodrama of Spygate
and the U.S. 2016 election. But it was also a big year for the Wuhan Institute
of Virology; for a biotech company that works with the biosafety level-4 lab there; and for
the exotic realm of gain-of-function research into coronaviruses – in particular those in the SARS family (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome viruses), like COVID-19.

As is so often the case, we’re back looking at 2015 because of what’s happening in 2020. The course of communal human life has been brought to a screeching halt across the entire planet by the eruption among us of the COVID-19 coronavirus. In a
mere eight weeks, the U.S. has gone from a roaring economy to a ghost town, uneasily aware that as things get worse, the system we’ve lived in for decades doesn’t have a way to combat-bridge us to a future of reliable expectations.

There are too many tremendous implications to get into all of them. Ironically, China is the last nation you want to be if U.S. tax receipts are about to crash and burn bigger than any such historical conflagration, ever. If our tax receipts tank, it’
s not servicing debt that our federal government is going to prioritize.

Which compounds the irony and, let us say, the quizzy face we may wear when contemplating all the coincidences attending the new melodrama – which at some point we’re going to give a -gate handle to. Will it be Virusgate? Maybe Wuhangate? (“
Chinagate” has been done.)

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It won’t be possible, ultimately, to ignore it. The coincidences are just too many. It isn’t being conspiracy-minded to notice them; it’s merely sane.

To date, the excellent work of others, like Jim Geraghty at National Review, has turned up the following.

A parade of lies

First, China has been lying about the COVID-19 coronavirus from the beginning.
The biggest of the lies seems to have been that China wasn’t seeing human-to-human transmission of the virus. Yet according to information recorded by Chinese specialists
at ground zero, in Wuhan, human-to-human transmission had been detected by early December 2019.

Chinese authorities asserted explicitly, as late as 15 January 2020 – six weeks later, and after multiple instances of virtually certain human-to-human transmission had been seen – that human-to-human transmission had not been seen.

Even when China dropped this categorical pronouncement, the authorities there began implementing restrictive measures on the population without giving a straight story to either their own people or the WHO and other countries. Rather than acknowledging
human-to-human transmission, they addressed it only in vague terms, or not at all, while silencing doctors and researchers who knew the truth.
Pixabay

China is also, of course, suspected of vastly understating the infected population and death toll in China from COVID-19. That is a garden-variety cover-up in the playbook of communist dictatorships. But the refusal to publish the truth about the
transmissibility of the virus smacks of something else.

If the Chinese government had no consciousness of guilt about the virus, there wouldn’t seem to be any reason to lie about its transmissibility among humans. There’s no need to assume the transmissibility is China’s fault.

Indeed, China is not being accused on that head by anyone in foreign leadership. Plenty of people are accusing China of lying about it, which effectively set back other nations in their level of alertment and planning for
weeks. But no one is accusing
China of having somehow made the virus humanly transmissible.

China seems to have lied where there was no need to lie. So that is an interesting data point. (It’s one of Dyer’s Axioms of Intelligence that doing the unnecessary is a reliable sign of being on offense. Being on defense
is about doing what’s
necessary. To go beyond that is to signal that you are taking initiative.)

A trail of dots to Wuhan labs

There are also good reasons to doubt the working theory that COVID-19 made the jump from common animal host – bats – to humans via a Wuhan “wet market.” For one thing, although bats are sold in wet markets in China, it appears that bats are not
on offer at the supposed ground-zero wet market in Wuhan, which is a seafood market.

But a more compelling point is that the bats that carry the virus aren’t indigenous to the Wuhan area. The closest ones are hundreds of miles away, and
very unlikely to be harvested for sale in a wet market located such a distance from their habitat.

Jim Geraghty, again, has an invaluable summary. The evidence for bat-to-human transmission via a wet market is lacking. But the circumstantial evidence is striking that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was heavily engaged in studying SARS-like
coronaviruses in bats, at just the time when the Wuhan outbreak began.

Moreover, researchers at the WIV were reported to have been splashed with bat blood and urine, and in the course of trapping bats (in their distant habitat),
or working with them to extract fluids, may have suffered scratches as well. If someone was
going to contract a particular coronavirus from a bat, it seems likeliest that it would be a human researcher and a bat population with interactions fitting that description.
Bats doing what they do. Pixabay

Again, none of this implicates China in anything nefarious. (It may implicate their lab managers in poor security practices.) Combining it with the record of Chinese authorities lying about other things, and suppressing counter-narrative reporting from
researchers and physicians, is what makes it look suspicious.

One point Geraghty spends some quality time on is the fate of WIV researcher Huang Yanling, who is thought by many to have been Patient Zero. That would have put her at the WIV in the fall of 2019. She is unaccounted for at this point, and presumed
dead by those who think she was Patient Zero.

China has denied this, and the WIV has said only that she has left the institute and they don’t know where she is now.

Geraghty notes in passing that the last published paper available by Huang Yanling is from 2015. Her work up through February 2015 doesn’t seem to indicate a connection with coronavirus research (the last paper is on bacteria,
not viruses).

But the timing of the cutoff of professional information about her is what’s important, perhaps more so than we would realize from the facts so far. And that brings us to our increasingly remarkable year.

The Year of the Goat

We get to 2015 by way of both the coronavirus and the recent, widely shared report that a Chinese biotech firm, WuXi Pharmatech, has a subsidiary in Wuhan called WuXi AppTec, in which George Soros was an investor about 10 years ago.
A Nubian goat. AMI, YouTube

Although it’s rarely meaningless from a political-strategic standpoint to probe what Soros is investing in, the real harvest in this case comes from discovering why he can no longer be a holder of publicly traded shares in the WuXi AppTec he bought a
decade ago.

It’s because in 2015, our year of freight and interest, parent company WuXi Pharmatech was taken private.

It had been traded on the NYSE since 2007. The WuXi AppTec subsidiary had been
formed when WuXi Pharmatech bought out a U.S. company, App Tec, in 2008.

But in April of 2015, a consortium of Chinese investment companies, led by a little-known firm named Ally Bridge Investments Group, came together to execute
a take-private buyout of the public shareholders.
Wikipedia. By Government of Thailand – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link

The privatization of WuXi created a bit of a stir at the time, given its size and successful record in the NYSE. But there doesn’t seem to be any English-language commentary from the time on the most significant aspect of this buyout, which is that
the investors’ consortium is a Who’s Who of Chinese Communist Party connected investment companies.

What China was doing was taking WuXi out of any effective oversight by foreign shareholders and tucking it firmly under the wing of the CCP.

Ally Bridge itself, headquartered in Hong Kong (but incorporated, like WuXi, in
the Cayman Islands), is under the leadership of Mr. Frank Yu (AKA Yu Fan), who seems to have no biography other than his last three or so jobs with big investment houses like
Goldman Sachs. If he is a native of anywhere on Planet Earth, his English-language biographies don’t mention it. That’s a common sign of a government asset.

Others in the buyout consortium include the Hillhouse Capital Group, whose CEO Zhang Lei attended Renmin University as an undergrad – the prestigious Chinese university that turns out senior CCP officials and Politburo members. Zhang later did
graduate work at Yale and has recently become a major donor there. At The Epoch Times, Annie Wu and Nathan Su provide details like this about Renmin:

The university is also an active participant in the CCP’s overseas propaganda operations, having established 12 Confucius Institutes overseas, according to the school’s website.

Another member of the buyout consortium was the Boyu Group, formed by one of the chief “princeling” sons of the CCP elders, Jiang Zhicheng. In the West
he goes by “Alvin Jiang”; in China, he’s the grandson of Jiang Zemin, whom you’ll
remember as the General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1989 to 2004. (General Secretary is the title formally held by the national leader, or premier, now Xi Jinping.)

Ping An is another CCP-linked investment group; its CEO Ma Mingzhe is a member of the CCP, and as Reuters demurely reports, “Ping An’s earnings reports sometimes discuss key Chinese Communist Party meetings and emphasise how the company furthers
politically popular objectives.”

It’s not without interest, incidentally, that the Reuters article, from March
2019, was about Ping An buying up a sizable chunk of its own shares, which are traded on the Chinese market. None of China’s financial moves lacks a geopolitical – and
national-strategic – motive. And that observation, which we may leave for a moment as regards 2019, goes double for 2015.

A biosafety lab’s opening is celebrated

The most obviously important development in 2015 was the formal inauguration of
the WIV’s Wuhan Biosafety Level-4 Lab on 31 January of that year. Just over a month later, according to Ge Li, the CEO of WuXi Pharmatech, the idea to take
his company
private sprang from his brow. By 30 April, he and Frank Yu at Ally Bridge had put together their proposal for the buyout from the NYSE.

I have a hard time seeing this as mere coincidence. WuXi subsidiary WuXi AppTec, whose services are conveniently located in Wuhan for the WIV, could hardly fail to be affected by the opening of China’s only BSL-4 laboratory down the road. If ever
there were a time for WuXi to move away from foreign investors holding their shares under the rules of the U.S. SEC, and into the secretive fold of the CCP,
it was the beginning of 2015.

But the beauty of the move for WuXi was that it didn’t change WuXi’s overseas access, facilities, or employment of foreign talent (at least not necessarily). WuXi continued in theory to be the same company it was before privatizing, with offices and
labs around the world.

A veil, however, was dropped over its corporate governance and relationship with national strategic and military operations in China. That this happened just as the Wuhan BSL-4 was standing up is … eye-catching.
Chinese People’s Congress celebrates removal of term limits for Xi Jinping (center, second row). (Image: Screen grab of UK Guardian video)

Speaking of early 2015, meanwhile, February 2015 qualifies: the date of the last paper now available online from Huang Yanling, the missing WIV scientist.
That could have no meaning. Or – perhaps consonant with her being Patient Zero – it could mean
that Huang’s research work moved behind a locked biohazard level-4 door in Wuhan, and Huang herself didn’t ultimately make it out.

This seemingly minor detail highlights, however, another relevant event in 2015: publication of a study of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats which postulated a “potential for human emergence.”

Two scientists from the WIV participated in the study, which was done at the University of North Carolina. One WIV participant was Shi Zhengli (or Zhengli Shi, as she is listed, Western-style, among the study’s authors). Shi is the
Director of the
Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center at the WIV, and has international fame as a top expert on bat virology. The other participant was Ge XingYi.

The most notable thing about the study is that its purpose was to deliberately increase the infectiousness of the pathogen to ensure useful reactions in test subjects (in this case, mice), with the ultimate goal of better detecting and treating the
resulting disease. To this end, the study used “gain-of-function” measures
to basically make the virus more virulently infectious.
A coronavirus. CDC: Dr. Fred Murphy & Sylvia Whitfield

A bat-virus study whose title conclusion is about the “potential for human emergence” must obviously grab attention. I suspect the non-experts who are interpreting this as evidence that the COVID-19 virus (which comes from the same SARS family) was
engineered are oversimplifying the matter, and I stipulate that I don’t have the expertise to judge one way or the other. I am not assuming it here.

But as the study itself acknowledges, the gain-of-function approach does produce exceptionally hazardous viral cultures. In fact, the study sponsors had to get approval from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to continue it,
because in October 2014,
while the study was underway, the U.S. government imposed a broad halt on gain-of-function studies due to their inherent dangers.


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