Anti-Virus Cooperation Is a Must

By Lan Xinzhen

U.S. intelligence agencies failed to reach a conclusion on the origin of the COVID-19 virus within 90 days as demanded by President Joe Biden， another solid piece of evidence that the U.S. is politicizing virus origin tracing in a game of deflection. Based on the report released on August 27 by the Office of the Director of U.S. National Intelligence through an inconclusive and unclassified summary， the U.S. intelligence community was fundamentally unable to come to a firm conclusion on where the virus came from. How can intelligence agencies fix a biological problem that to this day bewilders scientists？ By allowing intelligence to interfere with virus origin investigations， the U.S. Government does not really intend to uncover the beginnings of the pandemic， but purely aims to discredit China.

The report， in typical U.S. manner， accuses China of obstructing international investigations and refusing to share information and blaming other countries.

Presuming that the virus came from China and then directing the intelligence community to search for evidence denotes a presumption of guilt， which is illegal in both China and the U.S. That the Biden administration tries to trace the virus origin via dishonest means is in itself a sin， trampling on the spirit of science and the rule of law. Also， it constitutes a blow to the U.S. Governments international credibility and cachet.

By doing so， the U.S. is hindering the international communitys antivirus cooperation as well as the exploration into public health security.

Vital openness

China was the first to report novel coronavirus cases to the World Health Organization （WHO）， but this does not mean that the virus originated from China. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic， China has operated in a transparent， open and cooperative manner by warning the rest of the world about the virus and offering crucial information on its genetic sequence. During the WHO missions two visits to China， China accommodated them with anything they required. The experts visited whatever places they wanted to， met all people they needed to see， and checked any data they had to look into. Their conclusion was that a COVID-19 virus lab leak was “extremely unlikely.”This conclusion obviously ran counter to American objectives， and thus they thrust aside science and invited in the intelligence to start scripting a new virus-tracing story.

More and more information indicates that before China first reported the coronavirus， several cases had already emerged in the U.S.， Italy and Spain. More importantly， before cases emerged in China， the U.S. had already experienced a public health emergency in the form of an unidentified viral infection. The symptoms presented by patients infected with this unidentified virus were very similar to those of the novel coronavirus. Even so， the U.S. still refuses to be investigated. Its current behavior undoubtedly triggers wider international suspicions regarding the roots of COVID-19 and the U.S. has gone on to become the biggest stumbling block in origin-tracing research.