China’s new ‘bio hazards’
Adding ‘3 virus labs’
China is building three more labs like the one now under investigation by US intelligence agencies for being the possible origin of COVID-19, author Steven Mosher says.
Mosher’s “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics,” set for publication in March, says that China “is moving forward with plans to greatly expand its technological capacity to carry out what it called ‘biosecurity research.’ ”
And while Chinese officials claim the work is intended to combat future deadly diseases, Mosher writes that “the worry is that this is merely civilian cover for a further, and major expansion of China’s biological weapons program,” according to an excerpt obtained by The Post.
Last year, Mosher wrote an opinion column for The Post in which he suggested that SARSCoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — “may have escaped from” China’s Wuhan Institute for Virology, which contains the Communist country’s “only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronavirus.”
Facebook moved to limit sharing of the op-ed from the account of Mosher’s nonprofit Population Research Institute by obscuring it with a “false information” label — only to reverse course and remove the label without explaining why.
When President Biden on May 26 ordered a 90-day probe into whether the virus developed naturally or emerged from the Wuhan lab, the social media giant caved even further and ended a ban on posts that say it was manufactured.
Biden’s directive marked a dramatic about-face after Democratic lawmakers for months downplayed the notion of a lab leak.
In his forthcoming book, Mosher writes that a new Chinese “biosecurity law” enacted last year “provides the legal basis for the establishment of many more bio labs in the country as evidence grows that COVID-19 originated from just such a laboratory in Wuhan.”
“Xiang Libin [China’s deputy minister of science and technology] said that the ministry has already examined and approved the construction of three biosafety level-4 labs, or P4 labs modeled on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and 88 biosafety level-3 labs, or P3 labs,” according to the excerpt.
That’s on top of two P4 labs and 81 P3 labs that Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has said were either in operation or approved for construction, meaning that “these new labs will more than double Beijing’s ability to work on dangerous pathogens,” according to Mosher.
Mosher’s book, which is being released by Regnery Publishing, will reveal “mountains of evidence” that the pandemic began in the Wuhan lab, according to its Amazon page.