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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing for a defense meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Blinken is the highest-ranked official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office. Both sides agreed on the need to stabilize relations between China and the U.S. and discussed topics including military communication, human rights and the economy.
A conspicuously missing topic was the origins of COVID-19. Straight Arrow News contributor Larry Lindsey questions whether stabilizing relations between China and the U.S. is even possible if these meetings ignore such vital topics.
Interestingly, just before Blinken left, there were numerous reports that the U.S. government had determined by name, the first three victims of COVID. They were Ben Hu, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu.
Now, these gentlemen all checked into hospitals on November 2019. You might remember that COVID story actually began — the wet market story that we all know — in January 2020. So this is two months before that, at least. Well, it turns out that Ben Hu was the director of the investigation of trying to make viruses more lethal at, you guessed it, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So were Yu Ping and Yan Zhu. In fact, some of them had written papers together on the subject — and again, they were hospitalized in November of 2019.
In December, in fact, Dec. 30, to be precise, a gentleman named Li Wenliang, who was one of the head doctors in the city, was arrested and brought in and forced to recant warnings he had said by internet throughout the city, that a new virus was spreading and was very, very dangerous and should be watched. Well, he was arrested, forced to recant, saying he was spreading malicious rumors … well, Li Wenliang died on Feb. 4.
