How the Chinese Communist Party's Coverup Led to a Global Pandemic

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How the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup led to a global pandemic PUBLISHER STEPHEN GREGORY AMERICA STILL A PRAYING NATION P. 52 PAST PANDEMICS AND EPIDEMICS P. 54 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JASPER FAKKERT GENEROSITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS P. 58 CHINA EDITOR FAITH, NOT FEAR P. 58 Publisher’s Note ANNIE WU Content LIFE & TRADITION EDITOR TRAVEL EDITOR I HOPE THIS FINDS then perhaps we will have found a CHANNALY PHILIPP you and your loved blessing in this chaos. MIND & BODY EDITOR ones well. We live in The immorality of the Chinese CHRISY TRUDEAU challenging times, regime helps explain the fundamental FOOD EDITOR and this special edi- reason we must deal with a pandemic. CRYSTAL SHI tion is meant to explain If the CCP had shown compassion for ARTS & TRADITION EDITOR why we find ourselves facing difficulty. the people it rules and if it had acted SHARON KILARSKI Daily life in the United States has honestly and openly, much of China, CONTACT US been upended, as governments seek and the world, could have been spared EPOCH TIMES INC. GIVING THE RIGHT NAME SILENCED: Stories of Citizens CCP ATTEMPTS TO SHIFT to stop the spread of the CCP virus this calamity. 229 W. 28TH ST., FL. 7 to the Virus Causing a Suppressed for Speaking the BLAME for Virus to US (see “Giving the Right Name to a Virus A study by the University of South- NEW YORK, NY 10001 Worldwide Pandemic Truth About the CCP Virus 212-239-2808 4 20 38 Causing a Worldwide Pandemic” on ampton finds that if “non-pharma- ADVERTISING Page 4). The virus is highly transmis- ceutical interventions—such as early [email protected] sible, and no one knows how deadly it detection, isolation of cases, travel SUBSCRIPTIONS may be here in the United States. The restrictions and cordon sanitaire ... [email protected] experience of China, which has expe- could have been conducted one week, GENERAL INQUIRIES rienced a death toll far higher than the two weeks, or three weeks earlier, [email protected] Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has cases could have been reduced by 66 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR admitted, is highly concerning. percent, 86 percent and 95 percent, [email protected] Businesses have been shuttered and respectively—significantly limiting the large numbers thrown out of work with geographical spread of the disease.” HOW CHINA’S COVERUP THE MYSTERIOUS TIME HAS COME to Remove almost no notice. While the federal In fact, the CCP, out of concern for Led to a Global Pandemic Origins of the CCP Virus the Cancer of the CCP government is scrambling to provide its power, censored knowledge of this 6 26 42 aid, many households are suddenly new, highly transmissible, SARS-like facing economic uncertainty, if not illness for six weeks, allowing millions hardship. to travel out of the epicenter in Wuhan Some of the small businesses that to the rest of China, and from there to SUBSCRIBE have closed may not be able to reopen. the rest of the world. With the stock market responding to Now, the CCP is waging a propagan- the virus with a devastating crash, da campaign to claim it is a model for TODAY ordinary households have seen retire- fighting the disease, which, it now says, ment savings threatened. originated in the United States. America’s Fastest- These are times that test us. In nor- This special edition sets the record Growing Newspaper TIMELINE CHARACTERISTICS SEVERE SUPPLY mal times, we may tend to focus on the straight. If the world understands why of CCP Coverup of Virus and Symptoms DISRUPTIONS Could Speed day to day. In abnormal times such as the CCP virus has wreaked such havoc, Delivers Truth and Demise of Globalization these, we may find our thoughts turn- then it will understand the need to ILLUSTRATION) (PHOTO TIMES EPOCH THE EGON999/SHUTTERSTOCK; COVER: Tradition 12 33 44 ing to what is fundamental. reject the CCP and its contagion of lies Ultimately, character counts; moral- and selfishness, and lust for power. ity counts. If our encounter with the SUBSCRIBE AND GET CCP virus pushes us to look inside and STEPHEN GREGORY THE INSIGHTS ONLY THE EPOCH TIMES ask how we can become better people, Publisher, U.S. Editions CAN PROVIDE, DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR EVERY WEEK. Accuracy The Epoch Times was founded in 2000 as an independent newspaper with the goal of restoring accuracy and integrity in media. We have received numerous awards for our reporting, including from the Society of & Integrity Professional Journalists, the Society for News Design, and the New York Press Association. 21 MILLION FEWER WHERE TIES WITH TELLING CHINESE PEOPLE ReadEpoch.com CELLPHONE USERS COMMUNIST CHINA the Truth About the CCP in China May Suggest a Are Close, the CCP Virus 917-905-2080 High CCP Virus Death Toll 16 Follows 34 48

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EDITORIAL GIVING THE RIGHT NAME TO THE VIRUS 4 CAUSING A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC 5 for its wanton disregard of human life and consequent spawning of a pandemic The name 'CCP virus' holds the Chinese regime that has put untold numbers in countries around the world at risk, while creating accountable for its wanton disregard of human life widespread fear and devastating the and consequent spawning of a pandemic that has economies of nations trying to cope with put untold numbers around the world at risk. this disease. After all, CCP officials knew in early ted pathogens that can cause fatal illness. victims from the victimizer. The people December that the virus had appeared in As the official narratives offered for the of Wuhan and of China are the victims of Wuhan, but they sat on the information source of the virus have been disproven, the CCP’s arrogance and incompetence, for six weeks. They arrested those who questions have been raised about wheth- expressed in this viral pandemic. tried to warn of the danger, accusing er the CCP virus leaked from the institute. The name CCP virus also sounds a them of spreading “rumors,” and em- In any case, as questions about the or- warning: Those nations and individuals ployed the regime’s rigorous censorship igin of the virus have gone unanswered, close to the CCP are the ones suffering the to prevent media coverage and to delete the CCP has begun throwing out wild worst effects from this virus, as is seen in any mentions of it from social media. charges that the United States is respon- the raging infections in the CCP’s close What might have been contained was al- sible. This will be met around the world ally Iran and in Italy, the only G-7 nation lowed silently to spread, showing up in all of with perplexity, if not ridicule. President to sign onto the Belt and Road Initiative. China. Individuals who might have protect- Donald Trump has pushed back by refer- Taiwan and Hong Kong, which have ed themselves became victims, in numbers ring to the “Chinese virus.” rejected the CCP—Taiwan in a recent far greater than the CCP has admitted. By But the CCP likely intends these landslide national election and Hong late January, there were reports that all of charges of U.S. responsibility for its do- Kong in months of massive demonstra- the crematoria in Wuhan were operating 24 mestic audience. The CCP has victimized tions—have had relatively few infections. hours a day, seven days a week to deal with the Chinese people in its first denial of the Finally, the CCP virus reminds the the crush of dead bodies. virus and now seeks to victimize them people of the world that the source of the Meanwhile, the measures taken to again by shifting responsibility for its virus is itself evil. This is a communist quarantine and treat the population of actions to others. virus, and with the name CCP virus, The Wuhan were grotesquely inhumane. And this points out why the name Epoch Times reminds the world of the Apartment buildings were welded shut. “CCP virus” is needed, to distinguish the cure: ending the CCP. Temporary “hospitals” were created that actually served as jails for those believed CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES to be sick with the virus. Locked into these places with no medical treatment and little food, the unfortunates were A CHINESE BOY hugs a relative as she leaves to board a train at Beijing Railway Station on Jan. 21, 2020. trapped there until death. In lying about the danger facing China, EDITORIAL BOARD the CCP was acting according to its usual script. The CCP’s dominant narrative here has been controversy is that the Party is “great, glorious, and recently about what to call correct.” The presence of the deadly CCP Giving the Right the virus that has unleashed virus in Wuhan, or, in 2003, of the SARS a worldwide pandemic. The virus, doesn’t fit the script. As with SARS, TChinese Communist Party (CCP) prefers the first response was denial. Name to the Virus “novel coronavirus.” Others have re- But in dealing with this virus, denial is ferred to it as the “Wuhan virus,” after its not acceptable. The world needs to know place of origin, as is common in naming its origin, and the CCP has refused to Causing a Worldwide diseases. cooperate. Outside experts have not been The Epoch Times suggests a more allowed into Wuhan. accurate name is the “CCP virus,” and And there is understandable concern Pandemic calls upon others to join us in adopting about the activities of the Wuhan Insti- this name. tute of Virology, China’s only P4 lab, one MEDICAL STAFF move a patient infected with the CCP virus from an ambulance to a hospital in The name holds the CCP accountable meant for working with easily transmit- Seoul, South Korea, on March 9, 2020.

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How China’s Coverup Led to a Global Pandemic

NICOLE HAO break, choosing to keep silent until it was too late to contain the virus. he global pandemic now rav- A recent study published in Science aging the world—disrupting magazine examined data from 375 everyday life, overwhelm- Chinese cities, and estimated that ing hospital systems, and 86 percent of all infections in Wu- Tkilling thousands—began as a small han were left undocumented prior outbreak in the central Chinese city to travel restrictions and lockdown of Wuhan. measures enacted by local author- When 27 people were hospitalized ities on Jan. 23. This contributed to with a mysterious pneumonia in early the virus’s quick global spread, the December 2019, eight doctors tried to scientists concluded. warn their colleagues on social media. When the online posts went viral, they were deleted by censors. Then, Initial Response local police summoned the doctors In its initial report confirming the for a verbal warning, requiring that presence of a new virus outbreak, the they sign a statement promising not Wuhan health commission originally to engage in any more “rumor-mon- stated that the first patient exhibited gering.” symptoms on Dec. 12, 2019. The com- Thus began the Chinese Commu- mission later revised the date to Dec. nist Party’s (CCP) coverup of one of 8, without explanation. But a study the most deadly outbreaks in recent based on data from Wuhan hospi- history. tals published in The Lancet medical Revelations from recent medical journal revealed that the first patient studies, media investigations, and presented symptoms on Dec. 1. Chinese government officials them- The Wuhan health commission HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA IMAGES GETTY selves illustrate how the Chinese didn’t reveal the outbreak to the pub- Communist Party’s deceit and mis- lic until Dec. 31. management allowed the disease to Meanwhile, authorities down- spread, first across the country, then played the threat of the virus. OFFICIALS IN PROTECTIVE SUITS check on an outside its borders to more than 185 Wang Guangfa, one of China’s top elderly man who collapsed and died on a street countries and territories. respiratory specialists within Chi- near a hospital in Wuhan on Jan. 30, 2020. Authorities failed to disclose to Chi- na’s National Health Commission, nese citizens the severity of the out- assured the public that the dis-

STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES event. People shared the dishes family-style, using their chopsticks to pick up The World Health Organization, citing Chinese food from the same plates. Baibuting residents later told The Epoch research, stated on Jan. 14 that there was ‘no clear Times that scores of people contracted evidence’ of human-to-human transmission.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the vi- SCREENSHOT VIA YOUTUBE rus, after attending the banquet. But authorities knew of the virus’s po- Resident Mr. Wu said that three of his tential to spread much earlier. family members were quarantined in a In December, a woman who had never hotel after showing symptoms. He also visited the Wuhan food market—which had symptoms of the virus, but his health authorities initially linked to the out- recovered. break—was diagnosed with the disease “The outbreak [in my neighborhood] is after her husband, who worked at the very severe. Lots of people died,” Wu said. A banquet attended by more than 40,000 market, contracted the virus. In preparation for Lunar New Year fes- families to celebrate the Chinese New Year is The husband, who died on Jan. 9, was tivities, many Chinese, unaware of the held in the Baibuting community of Wuhan on China’s first confirmed death related to virus’s contagiousness, traveled across Jan. 18, 2020. the virus. the country or abroad to spend time with the disease could be transmitted between In early January, health authorities in their families. humans. the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen The city mayor revealed that in the peri- The World Health Organization (WHO), also knew of a family who quickly infect- od before the Jan. 23 lockdown, 5 million citing Chinese research, stated on Jan. ed each other. residents had left Wuhan. 14 that there was “no clear evidence” of Zhang Jing, a Shenzhen resident, visited Laurie Garrett, an expert on epidem- human-to-human transmission. Wuhan with her parents, husband, and ics and former Pulitzer Prize-winning Days later, on Jan. 20, the Chinese re- two children at the end of December. On journalist known for her coverage of the gime finally admitted that the virus was Jan. 3, the family returned to Shenzhen. 1995 Ebola outbreak, believes Chinese contagious. On Jan. 10, Zhang’s parents visited authorities had the chance to contain the HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES spread in the first week of January. Had Chinese authorities been more transparent and taken swift action with A PATIENT ASSISTED BY MEDICAL STAFF members gets off an ambulance in Wuhan on Jan. 26, 2020. no attempt to conceal the outbreak, it “could have been controlled fairly easily,” ease could be contained, in a Jan. 10 inter- The city didn’t screen passengers and compound in Jiang’an district organized she told The Epoch Times in an interview view with the Chinese Communist Party’s check body temperatures at airports, a large-scale dinner in advance of the in late January. mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily. railway stations, intercity coach stations, Lunar New Year on Jan. 18, with more By the time the Chinese regime enact- Most Wuhan residents were unaware of and maritime passenger terminals until than 40,000 families participating. ed lockdown measures in Wuhan, it was the perils and went about their daily lives. Jan. 14. From the photos shared by the local already too late, she said. “By the time it’s “I suspected the virus was very severe The city also allowed large-scale gath- government and netizens who attend- a few hundred cases, you lost—it’s over. but the government said it wouldn’t be erings to go on. The Baibuting residential ed, nobody wore a protective mask at the You’re now dealing with an epidemic and transmitted between people, so I enjoyed your whole strategy of outbreak control my normal life at the time,” Wuhan res- has been defeated, and it’s defeated be- ident Wei told The Epoch Times. “I went A recent study published in Science magazine cause of your own ... unwillingness to to a bar on the evening of Jan. 18. Since take seriously the first seemingly very then, I have had symptoms [of the virus].” estimated that 86 percent of all infections in small number of cases,” she explained Wuhan were left undocumented prior to travel in a February interview. Lack of Precautions The Wuhan government did business as restrictions and lockdown measures enacted by Human Transmission usual. local authorities on Jan. 23. Chinese authorities initially denied that PEOPLE WAIT IN LINE at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital on Jan. 24, 2020.

HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES a local hospital after having a fever. the outbreak began; some were working Soon after, they were diagnosed with around the clock in order to cremate the COVID-19. Zhang, her husband, and her bodies coming from local hospitals and MEDICAL STAFF son were later diagnosed as well. private homes. treat a CCP virus patient at a hospital Zhang’s mother-in-law, who had nev- Most recently, The Epoch Times ob- in Wuhan, Hubei er left Shenzhen, also started to exhibit tained internal data from the Wuhan Province, China, on symptoms on Jan. 14. health commission showing that on March 19, 2020. Garrett, the health policy analyst, said March 14, the city found 91 new sam- that such a “coverup has put the people ples that tested positive during nucleic of China at risk and put the whole world acid testing. In Wuhan, samples are only at risk.” taken from a throat swab. Thus, these 91 She added that the Chinese regime samples can be understood as 91 new similarly covered up the 2002–2003 patients. SARS (severe acute respiratory syn- That day, Chinese authorities reported drome) outbreak. As the initial infec- just four new cases in Wuhan. tions coincided with the timing of the Some officials also publicly revealed CCP’s leadership transition, the Party how Party politics stymied their initial wanted to assure that “nothing shall MEMBERS OF A FAMILY wearing protective masks are seen in a neighborhood on the outskirts of responses to the outbreak. rock the boat,” she said. Wuhan on Jan. 27, 2020. During a Jan. 28 press conference, the The Chinese regime did not share key It took another three days for the Chi- covered up data. Party boss of Wuhan, Ma Guoqiang, said information about SARS with the WHO nese regime to share the genetic data In Shandong Province, the local CDC the central government didn’t allow the until April, after Hu Jintao was appointed with the WHO and make it public to re- kept an internal tally of the number of Hubei CDC to diagnose the disease un- Party leader during a March meeting of searchers around the world. samples that tested positive for the virus til Jan. 16; previously, patients’ samples the Party’s rubber-stamp legislature. during nucleic acid testing. had to be sent to Beijing for testing. Even Coverup In February, the daily number of sam- then, the Hubei CDC only had enough Genetic Sequencing Since the beginning of the outbreak, the ples that tested positive was consistently capacity to run about 300 tests per day, Mapping out a virus’s genetic makeup is Chinese regime underreported infection lower than the officially reported number he said. critical for researchers to understand the and death toll figures. of cases published by China’s National Similarly, Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xian- pathogen’s traits. In mid-January, Wuhan authorities Health Commission. wang blamed his superiors for misman- Chinese media Caixin published a Feb. reported just 41 cases as Thailand and In Liaoning Province—in the country’s aging the crisis. 26 expose detailing how authorities hid Japan reported their first cases of infec- northeastern region, thousands of miles During a news program tahat aired on information about the virus from the tions—from people who had traveled to away from the virus epicenter—author- state broadcaster CCTV on Jan. 27, Zhou public. After interviewing researchers Wuhan. ities instructed their city governments said the central government made the at three of China’s top gene-sequenc- The number of infections in Wuhan, to destroy documents and data related decision to withhold information about ing companies, Vision Medicals based meanwhile, stayed unchanged between to the outbreak. the outbreak. in Guangzhou city, Beijing’s CapitalBio Jan. 12 and 16. Officials were also required to sign “Disclosures about the outbreak were MedLab, and the Beijing Genomics In- Researchers at the time analyzed that letters promising that they would delete not timely. ... As the leader of a local gov- stitute, Caixin reported that all three given the number of foreign cases at the relevant documents from their personal ernment, I could only publish informa- companies received samples of the virus time, Wuhan infections would be sub- devices and pledge to not share the con- tion after I received permission from and mapped out its genetic sequence in stantially higher than officially reported. tents of the documents with any party. the authorities [central government],” December. The Epoch Times also obtained inter- The Epoch Times also interviewed staff Zhou said. The companies reported the results to nal documents from different local gov- at funeral homes in Wuhan, who revealed In a recent press briefing, U.S. Presi- China’s National Health Commission ernments in China, revealing how they that their intake had skyrocketed since dent Donald Trump criticized the Chi- and the Chinese Center for Disease Con- nese regime for failing to share prompt trol and Prevention. information about the virus. It wasn’t until Jan. 9 that the Chinese “The world is paying a very big price for regime announced that sequencing was Since the beginning of the outbreak, the Chinese what they did,” he said. “It could have been complete. regime underreported infection and death toll figures. stopped right where it came from, China.”

EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 ALL IMAGES BY GETTY IMAGES & SHUTTERSTOCK EXCEPT WHERE NOTED WHERE EXCEPT & SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGES GETTY BY IMAGES ALL Rather than using best practices, this outbreak Timeline of CCP Coverup in Wuhan was covered up. ... It probably cost the world community two months to respond. the early stages of the viral By the time authorities implemented the first containment THIS TIMELINE CHRONICLES ROBERT O’BRIEN U.S. national security adviser outbreak in China and the Chinese regime’s coverup. Despite measures on Jan. 23, it was too late. The disease had already the evidence, Chinese authorities played down the severity of spread around the country and overseas. the outbreak for weeks, while suppressing vital information Less than two months later, the outbreak has morphed into a about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. pandemic, spreading to more than 185 countries and territories.

NOV. 17 DEC. 1 MID-DECEMBER DEC. 27 DEC. 30 DEC. 30 DEC. 30 DEC. 30 2019 SHUTTERSTOCK; THE EPOCH TIMES EPOCH THE SHUTTERSTOCK; NIAID/RML The earliest documented patient, a man in his 70s who was bedridden from a stroke, falls ill. He has no connection with the Wuhan seafood market. This case is one week earlier than the official account, which says the first patient appeared on Dec. 8. The first person is First evidence appears A Chinese lab sequences Dr. Ai Fen, a director of the Dr. Li Wenliang of Wuhan Later that day, Wuhan Wuhan Health Commission Infected—a 55 year-old from of human-to-human most of the virus genome emergency department at shares the report with his Central Hospital transmits issues an urgent notice, Hubei Province—according transmission among close from samples from a Wuhan Central Hospital, former medical school a notice from the Wuhan asking hospitals to report any to the South China Morning contacts, according to a 65-year-old patient, and shares a report of a classmates on WeChat, Health Commission that “pneumonia patients with Post, citing government study published in The New reports the findings to Wuhan contagious, SARS-like virus warning them to take warns health workers not to unknown causes.” documents. England Journal of Medicine health officials and state- in her department group chat precautionary measures. spread information about the on Jan. 29. affiliated Chinese Academy on WeChat, a Chinese social “unknown pneumonia,” or of Medical Sciences. media platform. She is later face potential penalties. reprimanded by her hospital for “spreading rumors.”

DEC. 31 2020 JAN. 1 JAN. 2 JAN. 3 JAN. 4 SCREENSHOT Wuhan Health Commission The PLA Naval University confirms 27 cases of an of Engineering in Wuhan, unknown pneumonia disease, a military university, bans but said it was “preventable entry to visitors whose and controllable.” It also body temperature is over says that there have been no 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, infections of health workers, according to a leaked internal and no apparent evidence notice. that the disease can spread between people. Officials close Huanan A Hubei Provincial Health Local police summon eight Government-run Wuhan Local police call in Dr. Li Hong Kong activates Seafood Market, which they Commission official tells a Wuhan medical workers virology lab obtains the Wenliang and reprimand him “serious response” level to Chinese authorities believe may be a source of genomics company to stop who had shared information full virus genome. This for “rumor mongering.” the outbreak. notify the World Health the outbreak. testing virus samples and to about the virus online, and information is not made a team of Organization (WHO) about destroy all existing samples. reprimand them for “rumor public until seven days later. Beijing sends medical experts to Wuhan. the outbreak. mongering.”

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Li contracts the virus while Xu Jianguo, a lead expert Chinese health authorities Two important CCP Thailand confirms its first treating an infected patient. in the response team, tells share the genome sequence conferences are held in infection—a Chinese tourist He later dies on Feb. 7. Chinese state media that with the WHO. Wuhan. On Jan. 11, Wuhan who traveled from Wuhan—in researchers mapped the health officials report a drop the first known case outside Chinese leader Xi Jinping full virus sequence two days in the number of infections. China. gets involved in response by earlier, and believe it’s a new For the remainder of this TIMELINE CONTINUES issuing the first containment coronavirus. period, they report no new ON NEXT PAGE order. This isn’t made public cases. until February.

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The person who will become the first confirmed U.S. patient, a man from Washington state, returns from Wuhan.

Chinese officials say that the risk of human-to-human infection is low. The WHO says that Japan reports its first Local officials hold a large Famed Chinese doctor By the end of the month, South Korea reports its Chinese leader Xi Jinping Chinese authorities had case—a Chinese national annual potluck banquet Zhong Nanshan, who is part more than 3,000 health first case, a 35-year-old makes his first public found no clear evidence from Wuhan—becoming the in Wuhan’s Baibuting of China’s response team, workers will be infected in Chinese woman who traveled remarks about the disease, of human-to-human second country outside China community for 40,000 confirms that the disease Hubei Province, as revealed from Wuhan. calling on authorities to transmission. It also notes to confirm an infection from families, despite a request by can be spread from human by a Chinese official on take swift action to combat “limited human-to-human the virus. The man tested committee staff to cancel it. to human. He notes that one March 6. the outbreak, in a speech transmission, potentially patient had infected 14 health reported by Chinese state positive between Jan. 10 and Beijing dispatches a second among families” is possible. workers. Jan. 15. panel of health experts to media. Wuhan.

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Thirteen other cities in Authorities in Hubei Province Hubei Province (whose say they will free up 100,000 capital is Wuhan) are placed hospital beds for patients. under lockdown. Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang Hubei authorities announce concedes that disclosures of the a bid to build a temporary outbreak were not timely, but hospital in days. attempts to shift blame to the Chinese Lunar New Year central government, saying he The United States, the Wuhan imposes a lockdown. By then, around 5 million people festivities begin. Prior to needed permission from higher- first country outside of Asia, had left the city without being screened for the virus. A study that, hundreds of millions ups before releasing information. U.S. Health and Human Services The WHO declares the confirms its first case. The published in Science magazine on March 16 estimates 86 of Chinese travel around Secretary Alex Azar says Beijing declined outbreak a global health Seattle man tested positive percent of all infections were undocumented prior to the Jan. the country to celebrate the Beijing extends the New Year an offer to send a team of health experts to emergency. on Jan. 20. 23 travel restrictions. occasion with family. holiday to Feb. 2 and closes China. On Feb. 7, he says the United States schools indefinitely. had been offering for more than a month.

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Countries around the world start imposing border closures and travel restrictions.

A nurse wearing a protective mask and gear comforts another as they change shifts at the Cremona hospital, in Italy’s northern Lombardy Patients lie in bed inside the new coronavirus intensive care unit of the Poliambulanza hospital in Medical staff treat CCP virus patients at a hospital in Wuhan on March 19, 2020. region, on March 13, 2020. Brescia, Italy, on March 17, 2020.

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21 Million Fewer Cellphone Users in China May Suggest a High CCP Virus Death Toll

NICOLE HAO China introduced mandatory facial scans on Dec. 1, 2019, to confirm the he number of Chinese cellphone identity of the person who registered the users dropped by 21 million in phone. As early as Sept. 1, 2010, China the past three months, Bei- required all cellphone users to register jing authorities announced on phones with their real identification, TMarch 19. Deaths due to the CCP virus by which the state can control people’s may have contributed to the high number speech via its large-scale monitoring of account closings. system. Cellphones are an indispensable part Furthermore, Chinese people’s bank of life in China. accounts and social security accounts “The digitization level is very high in are bundled with their cellphone plans; China. People can’t survive without a apps on Chinese phones check SIM cards cellphone,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based against the state’s database to make sure China affairs commentator, told The Ep- the number belongs to the user. och Times on March 21. “Dealing with Beijing first launched cellphone-based the government for pensions and social health codes on March 10. All people in security, buying train tickets, shopping China must install a cellphone app and ... no matter what people want to do, they register their personal health informa- are required to use cellphones. tion. Then the app can generate a QR “The Chinese regime requires all Chi- code, which appears in three colors, to nese to use their cellphones to generate classify the user’s health level. Red means a health code. Only with a green health the person has an infectious disease, yel- code are Chinese allowed to move in low means the person might have one, China now. It’s impossible for a person and green means the person doesn’t. to cancel his cellphone.” Beijing claimed that the health

The Chinese regime requires all Chinese to use their HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA IMAGES GETTY cellphones to generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese allowed to move in China now. It’s impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone. A WOMAN CHECKS her cellphone in Shanghai on March 17, 2020. TANG JINGYUAN China affairs commentator

EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 DEATH TOLL DEATH TOLL 21 MILLION FEWER CELLPHONE 21 MILLION FEWER CELLPHONE USERS IN CHINA MAY SUGGEST A USERS IN CHINA MAY SUGGEST A 18 HIGH CCP VIRUS DEATH TOLL HIGH CCP VIRUS DEATH TOLL 19

NOEL CELIS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES codes are intended to prevent the spread had two cellphone numbers before. One of the CCP virus, commonly known as If only 10 percent of the cellphone accounts were is from their hometown, and the other novel coronavirus. is from the city they work in. In Febru- closed because the users died because of the CCP ary, they might close the number in the 21 Million Cellphone Users virus, the death toll would be 2 million. city they work in because they couldn’t China’s Ministry of Industry and Infor- go there,” Tang said. Typically, migrant mation Technology (MIIT) announced on TANG JINGYUAN China affairs commentator workers would have gone to their home March 19 the number of phone users in city for the Chinese New Year in January, each province in February. Compared January 2020 and 7.254 million in Feb- January 2020, but gained 1.962 million and then travel restrictions would have with the previous announcement, which ruary 2020. users in February 2019 and 2.763 million prevented them from returning to the city was released on Dec. 18, 2019, for Novem- China Mobile’s performance in the users in January 2019. where they held a job. ber 2019 data, both cellphone and land- same months in 2019 was markedly dif- China allows each adult to apply for However, because there is a basic line users dropped dramatically. In the ferent; it gained 2.411 million more ac- at most five cellphone numbers. Since monthly fee to hold a cellphone account same period the year before, the number counts in January 2019 and 1.091 million Feb. 10, the majority of Chinese stu- in China, the majority of migrant work- of users increased. more in February 2019. dents have taken online classes with a ers—the lowest income group—are likely The number of cellphone users de- China Telecom is the second-largest cellphone number due to their schools to only have one cellphone account. creased from 1.600957 billion to 1.579927 carrier, holding about 21 percent of the being ordered to stay closed. These stu- China had 288.36 million migrant billion, a drop of 21.03 million. The num- market. It gained 1.18 million users in De- dents’ accounts are under their parents’ workers as of April 2019, according to ber of landline users decreased from cember 2019, but lost 0.43 million users names, which means some patients the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. 190.83 million to 189.99 million, a drop in January 2020 and 5.6 million users in needed to open a new cellphone ac- On March 17, Meng Wei, spokesman of 840,000. February 2020. count in February. of China’s National Development and PEOPLE WALK DOWN the street in Shanghai on Feb. 21, 2020. In the previous February, the number In 2019, it gained 4.26 million in January Reform Commission, said at a monthly increased. According to MIIT, the num- and 2.96 million in February. Analyzing the Numbers press conference in Beijing that except also suggests the Chinese death toll is sig- coronavirus, which causes the disease ber of cellphone users increased in Feb- China Unicom, which hasn’t yet pub- The big question is whether the dramatic for Hubei, all provinces reported that nificantly underreported. Italy adopted COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the ruary 2019 from 1.5591 billion to 1.5835 lished the data for February, shares the drop in cellphone accounts reflects the more than 90 percent of their business- similar measures to those used by the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup billion, which is 24.37 million more. The same experience as the other two tele- account closings of those who have died es resumed operations. In Zhejiang, Chinese regime. The CCP virus death toll and mismanagement allowed the virus number of landline users increased from coms in January 2020 and in early 2019. due to the CCP virus. Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangxi, in Italy of 4,825 translates to a death rate to spread throughout China and create a 183.477 million to 190.118 million, which The company lost 1.186 million users in “It’s possible that some migrant workers and Chongqing, almost all businesses of 9 percent. In China, where a much larg- global pandemic. is 6.641 million more. resumed production. er population was exposed to the virus, NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES According to China’s National Bureau If both the number of migrant workers the reported death toll of 3,265 translated of Statistics, the country’s population at and the level of employment are accurate, to a death rate of only 4 percent, less than the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger more than 90 percent of migrant workers half that reported in Italy. than in 2018, reaching 1.40005 billion. have gone back to work. Activities in the outbreak epicenter of The 2020 decrease in landline users The economic dislocation caused by Hubei Province seem to contradict the may be due to the nationwide quarantine shutdowns in China may have also led reported death toll in China. The seven in February, during which small busi- some people who have an extra cell- funeral homes in the city of Wuhan were nesses were shut down. But the decrease phone to cancel it. With business poor reported to be burning bodies 24 hours in cellphone users can’t be explained in or stopped, they may not want to carry a day, seven days a week in late January. this way. the extra expense. Hubei Province has used 40 mobile cre- According to the operation data of all “At present, we don’t know the details mators, each capable of burning five tons three Chinese cellphone carriers, cell- of the data. If only 10 percent of the cell- of medical waste and bodies a day, since phone accounts increased in December phone accounts were closed because the Feb. 16. 2019 but dropped steeply in 2020. users died because of the CCP virus, the Lacking data, the real death toll in Chi- China Mobile is the largest carrier, death toll would be 2 million,” Tang said. na is a mystery. The cancellation of 21 holding about 60 percent of the Chinese The reported death toll in China doesn’t million cellphones provides a data point cellphone market. It reported that it line up with what can otherwise be deter- that suggests the real number may be far gained 3.732 million more accounts in mined about the situation there. higher than the official number. A VENDOR USES her cellphone as she waits for A SECURITY GUARD is reading his cellphone, while securing the entrance of a nearly empty customers in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China, December 2019, but lost 0.862 million in shopping mall, in Beijing on Feb. 27, 2020. A comparison with the situation in Italy The Epoch Times refers to the novel on March 6, 2020.

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CCP Virus CATHY HE & EVA FU ture. Fang, who recorded the incident, Citizen Reporters said his temperature was normal and asked them to come back with an inspec- Fang Bin tion warrant. The men forced their way a Wuhan into his house, confiscated his electronic clothes salesman, began devices, and took him to a police station. filming his trips to hospi- There, police questioned him about his tals around the locked- videos, Fang later recounted. down city and posting the Less than two weeks later, Fang went videos online in late January. missing. His friends told The Epoch The scenes showed long lines outside Times that Fang had been detained. hospitals, patients clinging to life, and distraught family members. Chen Qiushi In one video that went viral, Fang counts eight body bags in a van a 34-year-old lawyer- parked outside a hospital. “So turned-citizen-journalist many dead,” he says with a sigh. from eastern China, arrived “This is too many.” Fang then walks in Wuhan on Jan. 24, a day into a room in the hospital, where doc- after the city was placed under tors are seen working around a patient lockdown. Armed with a who had apparently just died. smartphone, he said he wanted to “Who is he?” Fang asks the man. document stories about the city’s “My father,” the man cries. residents. “He’s gone,” Fang says, after speaking “What sort of a journalist are you if you to the doctors. don’t dare rush to the frontlines?” he said That evening, around half a dozen in his first video in Wuhan, filmed with masked men in hazmat suits knocked on a selfie stick, from the railway station his door, demanding to take his tempera- where he had just disembarked.

MARK RALSTON/AFP VIA IMAGES GETTY Without media to represent people’s interests and report on the truth, people are left to the harms of A MEMORIAL FOR DR. LI WENLIANG, who sought to warn colleagues about the both the virus and a seriously diseased system. emergence of the CCP virus that originated in Wuhan, outside the University of California–Los REN ZHIQIANG real estate tycoon Angeles campus on Feb. 15, 2020.

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NOEL CELIS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES On March 12, Ren became incommu- I'm not afraid of dying. Why should I be afraid of nicado. you, Communist Party? He’s not the only one recently punished for criticizing the authorities’ outbreak CHEN QIUSHI citizen journalist response. Xu Zhangrun, a legal scholar at the prestigious Tsinghua University, “I don’t want to shut my eyes and ears. graduated from ... and this country,” he was placed under house arrest after he ... I’m doing this so that more young peo- said shortly before he opened the door published an article, titled “Angry People ple like me can stand up,” Li, 25, said in and let the police in. The police confis- Are No Longer Afraid,” in early February, a passionate speech live-streamed on cated his phone and laptop, and cut off denouncing the regime’s hypocrisy. YouTube, before police entered the hotel the signal. “It is true that the present level of pop- and presumably detained him. ular fury due to the handling of the epi- Li arrived alone in Wuhan by train on Businessman demic is volcanic; people thus enraged Feb. 12, tracing the steps of Chen Qiushi may, in the end, also cast aside their and Fang Bin, who had been arrested by Ren Zhiqiang fears,” he wrote. local police. It was “not by coincidence”— he said in his first YouTube video—that Dubbed by Chinese the first hotel he checked in was right media as “the can- Whistleblowers next to where Chen had stayed. non” for his fierce, Over the two weeks, before the police unreserved criticism, Li Wenliang got him, he visited the Baibuting resi- 69-year-old Chinese real dential compound, where many became estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, a 34-year-old ophthal- infected after attending a large-scale went missing days after he took aim at the mologist at the Wuhan banquet, interviewed a funeral home Beijing regime. Central Hospital, was worker, and went to a local train station In a scathing article published online among the first people where migrant workers were said to be in early March, he criticized authorities to publicize information stranded. for their handling of the outbreak and the about the outbreak in Wuhan. On his way back from visiting a local censorship of internet information. “Seven ‘SARS-like’ cases from the Hua- virology lab, however, he realized he was “This outbreak of the Wuhan pneumo- nan seafood market have been confirmed,” being chased. nia has verified the reality: when all me- he wrote on Chinese social media app “I’m driving really fast. ... Please help me,” dia ‘take on the surname of the Party,’ the WeChat, in a chat group with hundreds of POLICEMEN, WEARING PROTECTIVE facemasks, patrol around Beijing Railway Station on Jan. 30, 2020. he said breathlessly from under a mask. people are abandoned,” he wrote. his former medical school classmates. He Hours later, plainclothes police “Without media to represent people’s attached a screenshot of a diagnosis report. In just over two weeks, he published “He has already passed,” she said. On Feb. 7, his mother, in a video shared knocked on his hotel door. interests and report on the truth, people That was Dec. 30, 2019, a day before Wu- more than 100 posts on his YouTube and The work took a toll on Chen. on his Twitter account, said Chen had He at first refused to let them in. He are left to the harms of both the virus and han health officials acknowledged that Twitter accounts—both platforms are “I’m scared. In front of me is the virus. gone missing the day before. turned his camera on, and began al- a seriously diseased system.” there was a mysterious viral pneumonia banned in China—that drew millions of Behind me is China’s legal and admin- Chen’s friend Xu Xiaodong, a promi- luding to the student-led Tiananmen Ren criticized the Chinese Commu- outbreak. views. He filmed interviews with locals istrative power,” he said in an emotion- nent mixed martial arts fighter, later said pro-democracy protests in 1989, which nist Party for praising its achievements Despite Li’s reminder to not “spread it who had lost loved ones, patients lying on al video, recorded in his hotel room on in a YouTube video that Chen had been came to a bloody end after Beijing de- during a February teleconference with externally,” screenshots of the conversa- temporary beds lining hospital hallways, Jan. 30. forcibly quarantined, but didn’t show ployed tanks and guns. Li lamented the top leaders. tion showing his full name quickly pro- and, according to Chen, a body left under Authorities have harassed his par- signs of symptoms. ignorance of Chinese youth to recent “The truth as seen from the outbreak is liferated on the internet. On Jan. 3, police a blanket outside an emergency ward. ents, who live in eastern China, history, the protests being a heavily cen- that the Party is defending its own inter- reprimanded him along with seven other In one hospital, a woman in a protective probing for his location, Chen Li Zehua sored topic in China. ests,” he said. medical professionals for spreading “ru- mask holds up the body of a relative in a said. Then, he said through a former anchor for “I feel that it’s unlikely that I will not be “There was no investigation into the mors” online. wheelchair, whose head is seen drooping tears, while pointing at the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, taken away and quarantined. But I want causes of the outbreak, no one reflecting The police statement said he had violated downward. camera: “I’m not afraid of dy- was the third video blogger ar- to make this clear: I am not ashamed to and taking on the responsibility. Instead, the law. “What’s wrong with him?” Chen asked ing. Why should I be afraid of rested in the outbreak epicenter of face myself, nor my parents, the Com- they attempt to cover up the truth with all “The public security department hopes the woman. you, Communist Party?” Wuhan. munication University of China where I kinds of grand accomplishments.” you can proactively cooperate with our

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work, listen to the urging of the police, and stop illegal activities from now. Can I'm not afraid of dying. Why should I be afraid of you achieve that?” He wrote “yes.” you, Communist Party? “Don’t go against the authorities, don’t wear masks, don’t make careless re- CHEN QIUSHI citizen journalist marks,” hospital colleague Zhao Chen recalled a department director as saying, after Li was summoned by police. Zhao told state media in a since-deleted interview that the hospital originally planned to fire Li. Days later, Li contracted the virus while operating on an asymptomatic patient for glaucoma. He died on Feb. 7, leaving behind a pregnant wife and a young son. Shaken by his death, Chinese netizens held vigils in mourning and began a wid- er call for free speech. At least 200 health workers at Li’s hospital have contracted the virus. Three of Li’s colleagues have died. On March 19, Wuhan police withdrew the statement about Li and issued an apology, saying they will “carefully draw a lesson” from the incident.

Ai Fen an emergency surgeon at the hospital, later revealed that she was the “whistle provider” who gave the diagnosis report to Li. Realizing that the virus could be contagious, she required everyone in the emergency department to wear masks. Police didn’t go after Ai, but she received an “unprecedented, very harsh admonition” from her superiors. “Many, many times, I thought how nice it would be if we could turn back the clock,” she told Chinese magazine Por- trait, adding that she regretted not telling more doctors about the danger. “If I knew what it would be like today, no matter if I got criticized or not, I would have spread it all around,” she said. “Someone has to stand up and tell the A LOCAL VOLUNTEER disinfects the truth. ... There has to be different voices common areas of a residential compound in this world, right?” in Beijing on March 5, 2020.

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PETR SVAB exacerbated much of the grief and uncer- the most crucial data—tests of animals tainty in its wake. from the epicenter of the outbreak in the our months into the worldwide The lack of evidence on the origin of central Chinese city of Wuhan—isn’t outbreak of the novel corona- the virus is especially troubling. Several forthcoming. To date, the CCP has shown virus, its origin still remains previously known animal viruses have no indication that it intends to provide unknown, fueling speculation been found to be genetically similar, but the data, or even collect it. Fand complicating efforts to counter it and not similar enough. Virologists seem to prevent its recurrence. agree that there’s still a missing link—the Lab Versus Natural Origin In fact, it’s better understood as the original source of the virus that may still When Chinese researchers examined CCP virus, since the Chinese Communist be out and about, carrying with it another the genome of the virus, they found Party’s coverup and lack of transparency potential global upheaval. similarities to two coronaviruses found regarding the outbreak have caused or Experts agree more data is needed, but in bats that were reported several years ago by Chinese military scientists—not JOHANNES EISELE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES in Wuhan, but in Zhoushan, almost 500 miles away. The CCP virus was an 88 percent match for the two from Zhoushan. In particular, two parts of the Wuhan virus—the nsp7 protein that aids its rep- lication and the envelope (E) protein that helps it overcome the immune system— were a 100 percent match for one of the Zhoushan bat viruses. This is unusual, because previous research has shown that each coronavirus strain seems to have its own version of E protein. A 100 percent match would be unusual between two viruses that each affect a A COLORIZED SCANNING electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (in green) heavily infected with the different species, Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin, a CCP virus particles (in purple), isolated from a patient former U.S. Army microbiologist, told The sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the Epoch Times. NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md. “It is a very small protein, but it involves viral particle assembly and interactions

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virus jumps host species (zoonotic [transmission]), it won’t keep the same The original story pushed by the CCP was that sequence,” he said via email. Some experts have voiced skepticism the virus originated at Huanan Seafood Market in of a lab origin. Wuhan, but there’s no indication that any of the A team from Columbia University, animals from the market were tested or have been University of Edinburgh, University of Sydney, Tulane University, and Scripps taken for testing. Research Institute compared the CCP virus to a number of other coronavi- Pangolin Spikes and let the body of the virus to invade the ruses, including a recently publicized As the Nature paper noted, much of the cell and destroy it. bat virus (called RaTG13) as well as sev- CCP virus genome matches the RaTG13 While the pangolin viruses aren’t as eral coronaviruses found in pangolin virus, but one crucial part doesn’t—the close a match for the CCP virus, their lizards. The RaTG13 was a 96 percent “spike protein.” spike proteins are nearly the same, in- match for the CCP virus, while the pan- This protein makes up the “little mush- cluding amino acids at all six of the most golin viruses were about a 90 percent rooms” attached to the surface of the vi- crucial positions in the gene sequence, match. rus, making it the most important tool for the paper stated. STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES A MEDICAL WORKER treats a patient infected by the CCP virus, at a hospital in Wuhan on Feb. 22, 2020. “It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 the virus to invade human cells. The cells The authors argued that because this emerged through laboratory manip- of human lungs and other organs are cov- kind of spike protein developed natural- ulation of a related SARS-CoV-like ered with membranes called ACE2. The ly in pangolins, this is evidence the CCP has a potential to work on humans would er than reported in these studies before rus against coronaviruses discovered in coronavirus,” the team concluded in spike protein has the ability to interlock virus also developed naturally. Further- be taken from a pangolin or a bat virus the host can be identified,” the magazine the past. the March 17 paper published in the with the membranes, allow the shell of more, the paper noted, the spikes on the and grafted onto a different animal coro- reported, referring to comments by Arin- Scientists have repeatedly stressed the journal Nature Medicine. the virus to fuse with the cell’s surface, CCP virus don’t bind to human cells as navirus. The virus would then be allowed jay Banerjee, coronavirus researcher at importance of animal testing to better effectively as those of the SARS virus. If to infect cells in lab setting “to select more McMaster University in Hamilton, Can- understand the origin of the virus. The JANE BARLOW - WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES the CCP virus was made artificially, why infectious clones” and then injected in ada. “He notes that the SARS virus shared authors of the Nature paper also ac- would it use a spike protein that works lab animals and allowed to further mu- 99.8% of its genome with a civet coronavi- knowledged as much. worse than another, already known one? tate “to select strains that are of higher rus, which is why civets were considered “More scientific data could swing the This question is actually not that hard transmissibility,” Lin said. the source. If pangolins are the origin of balance of evidence to favor one hypoth- to answer. The Nature paper describes a pro- the current outbreak, says Banerjee, it is esis over another,” they said. “Obtaining Creating artificial viruses with new or cess for how this could theoretically be not the pangolins in these studies.” related viral sequences from animal enhanced capabilities—“gain-of-func- done, but adds that these particular ex- The original story pushed by the CCP sources would be the most definitive way tion” research—has been done for a va- periments haven’t been publicized be- was that the virus originated at Huanan of revealing viral origins.” riety of purposes and not necessarily to fore. Moreover, the CCP virus’s body, or Seafood Market in Wuhan. At the end It could hardly be a lack of resourc- create the most efficient virus. It can be “backbone,” doesn’t exactly match “any of December, the market was closed, es stopping China from robust animal used to probe what new viruses can po- previously used virus backbone”—more but there’s no indication that any of the testing. In fact, one laboratory that has tentially emerge and what would be their evidence to support a natural origin, the animals from the market were tested. experimented with bats in the past is pandemic potential. authors said. There’s also no indication that any an- only about 400 feet from the Wuhan “It really depends on how the exper- This view, however, rests on assump- imals from the Wuhan area have been market. Another laboratory, at the iment was designed. What’s their ob- tions of transparency, something sorely taken for testing. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), is jective in this kind of gain-of-function lacking on Beijing’s part, Lin noted. The genetic comparison papers re- a two-hour drive away. study?” Lin said in a phone call. leased so far have matched the CCP vi- In addition, Chinese virologist Shi Moreover, despite making the opposite No Animal Testing conclusion, “this [Nature] paper’s argu- None of the animal viruses so far report- ments actually suggested a potential path ed are close enough to be a direct progen- The genetic similarity should be higher than of lab-engineering,” Lin told The Epoch itor of the CCP virus, according to Nature A TECHNICIAN EXTRACTS VIRUSES from swab samples so that the genetic structures can be reported in these studies before the host can be analyzed and identified, in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in Times via email. magazine. Glasgow, Scotland, on Feb. 19, 2020. In the lab scenario, a spike protein that “The genetic similarity should be high- identified.NATURE MAGAZINE

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KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES ing new in China. In January, biologist Li Ning of China Engineering Academy was sentenced to 12 years in prison for selling experimental pigs, cows, and milk from his lab to local markets. Wang denied that such a thing happened at WIV, and Chen put out a statement saying her identity has been stolen and denying responsibility for the online posts. Shi denied any connection of the CCP virus to the lab in a statement to Chinese media. “I pledge with my life that the 2019 novel coronavirus has nothing to do with our lab,” she said. “This virus is a punishment imposed on mankind from nature, to condemn mankind’s uncivilized way of living. Those of you who believe rumors or so-called scientific analysis by unqual- A CHINESE WORKER has his temperature checked in a nearly empty and shuttered commercial ified researchers, I advise you to shut your street in Beijing on Feb. 12, 2020. [expletive] mouths!” But in a country accustomed to seeing Zhengli, who is based at WIV, is one of are often unflattering to the regime. forced confessions on television, the de- the world’s preeminent authorities on Some claimed that a female graduate nial failed to quell the questions. bat coronaviruses and reported the 96 working at WIV, Huang Yanling, was “For such a huge calamity that may percent match with the RaTG13 bat virus. patient zero and had died. WIV denied take countless lives, give us facts and ev- The WIV is also the only lab in China it, saying she’s lived and worked in oth- idence, not pretentious statements such certified to handle the most dangerous er provinces since her 2015 graduation. as pledging with your life,” one netizen viruses, such as Ebola or SARS. But Huang’s photo, bio, and thesis were commented. The CCP is usually eager to boost its im- all removed from the Institute’s website, age by portraying government workers leaving only her name. She also never No Bats, No Pangolins as heroes in a crisis. This time, howev- emerged to dispute the rumors. One reason why many Chinese have been er, WIV has remained unusually quiet An online profile using the name and skeptical of the official explanation—that throughout the epidemic. An internal photos of WIV researcher Chen Quan- the infection transferred to humans from directive leaked online stated that WIV jiao accused the director-general of the bats at the Huanan market—is the appar- workers were forbidden to talk about the institute, Wang Yanyi, of “frequently” re- ent lack of bats on site. Not only were no CCP virus, even to Chinese state-run selling lab animals at the Huanan market bats found at the market, but any bats media. and thus possibly leaking the virus from living in the area would have been in hi- It’s possible that China is conducting the lab. bernation at that time of year. the animal tests, but if it is, it’s keeping The mishandling of lab animals is noth- No pangolins were found at the the results secret, Lin said. WIV Accusations This [Nature] paper’s arguments actually suggested In the absence of solid evidence, Chinese a potential path of lab-engineering. netizens have come up with their own ex- planations for the virus’s origins, which DR. XIAOXU SEAN LIN former U.S. Army microbiologist

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EARLY DECEMBER 2019 WUHAN, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA of people recover First cluster of patients Place of origin from the virus without special treatment.Still others become For such a huge calamity that may take countless HUBEI infected and might lives, give us facts and evidence, not pretentious PROVINCE 80 be contagious but CHINA statements such as pledging with your life. PERCENT don’t develop any symptoms. CHINESE NETIZEN market either. The scaly lizards are a pro- The controversy provided an incentive Wuhan tected species, so it’s possible that sellers to Shi or other researchers following in disposed of them before authorities closed her footsteps to keep any further gain- the market; so far, there’s no indication of of-function research under the radar. In pangolins being found anywhere in Wuhan. that case, a likely client for such research Moreover, the viruses with the match- would have been the Chinese military, ing spike protein were found in pangolins according to Lin. smuggled from Malaysia to Guangdong A post on Chinese social media Dou- Province, 500 miles south of Wuhan. The ban said that Chen Wei, the People’s Lib- RaTG13 bat virus was found in Yunnan eration Army’s “top biochemical weapon -4 in 6 Province, 900 miles from Wuhan. expert,” recently took over the WIV lab. The report remains unconfirmed. DAYS become seriously ill and have di culty Dangerous Experiments Shi and WIV didn’t respond to emailed breathing. Older people and those with Shi has a history of experimenting with questions from The Epoch Times. Estimated incubation underlying medical problems have a mutated coronaviruses, including com- However, the lab has had a military period for the virus higher chance of falling ill. bining multiple viruses to change the connection since its inception. (most common is five resulting virus’s capability to infect a The lab was developed with the help days). different species. of the French government after the 2003 In a 2010 paper, she explored manipu- SARS outbreak. Originally, a French ar- lating a bat’s ACE2s to make the animal chitect was supposed to design it, but susceptible to SARS. In a 2015 paper, she Chinese authorities switched the work and other researchers used a bat virus to a local Wuhan architect. French in- spike protein that didn’t work on humans, telligence found the Chinese architect FEVER TIREDNESS DRY COUGH grafted it onto SARS, and found that it was company, IPPR Engineering Interna- then capable of infecting humans while tional, had close ties to a Chinese mil- March , Unknown also being resistant to treatment. itary subsidiary that used to be on the are the most common symptoms. Shi is not the only one doing such ex- CIA’s blacklist, according to Challenges, periments. But it’s a dangerous business. a French business magazine. The lab be- Other symptoms such as aches and pains, 2020 Origin “If the new virus escaped, nobody came operational in 2017. could predict the trajectory,” said Simon Whatever the origin of the virus, there congestion, sore throat, and diarrhea can WHO declares the The CCP virus is a coronavirus, meaning Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in still isn’t enough evidence to say for sure, occur as well, mildly at first. outbreak a pandemic. it likely spreads from animals to humans France, commenting on Shi’s 2015 paper. according to Lin. What is clear, however, and is transmitted generally by In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama is that the lack of evidence can be large- human-to-human contact through paused funding for gain-of-function rely blamed on the CCP, while the whole respiratory droplets. search, wary of its danger to biosafety. world bears the consequences.

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CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES and geopolitical affairs. Deceiving the world with a narrative of “China’s peaceful rise,” the communist regime has lured foreign governments and international firms to invest in China’s rapidly developing markets. But the CCP has never abandoned its ideological tenets of class struggle and totalitarian control. In the 30 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, and from the start in 1999 of the persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong to today’s systematic persecution of all faiths and independent thought, the state of human rights in the PRC has only worsened. The true nature of the CCP and communism has long been known to readers of The Epoch Times. Fifteen years ago, The Epoch Times published the editorial series “Nine Commentar- MEDICAL STAFF move a patient infected with the CCP virus in Seoul, South Korea, on March 9, 2020. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES ies on the Communist Party,” igniting a grassroots movement in China to reject its weakening economy, Italy has also the PRC. The Islamic Republic allowed communism. Since 2004, more than sought to capture the Chinese market flights in and out of four major Chinese Where Ties With Communist China 350 million people have renounced for selling its luxury goods. cities until the end of February. their ties to the Party and its affiliated With the outbreak forcing Rome to On-the-ground footage taken by youth organizations. put the country under lockdown, such Iranian citizens is reminiscent of the Are Close, the CCP Virus Follows Seen in conjunction with the CCP-hi- prospects have been put on hold. tragedy playing out in Wuhan, with jacked geopolitical environment of Italy also has signed scores of sis- overworked medical staff, despondent Severe COVID-19 outbreaks highlight different countries’ entanglements with Beijing today, the geographical distribution of ter-city agreements with China, with patients, and body bags lining hospital what the World Health Organization the cities of Milan, Venice, and Berga- floors. (WHO) now calls a coronavirus pan- mo included among them. These are And while official figures released EDITORIAL BOARD borders is now in the hundreds of outside China all share a common demic highlights the ultimate peril the areas hardest-hit by the virus. by the Iranian authorities show deaths thousands, with thousands having thread: close or lucrative relations with facing those who align themselves with In the Middle East, Iran has seen a and confirmed cases trailing behind n the final weeks of 2019, a novel succumbed to the virus. The stock the communist regime in Beijing. the specter of communism. surge in the number of infections, par- Italy’s numbers, it is likely that the real coronavirus outbreak occurred in market has plunged as experts warn of Outside China, the spread of ticularly among government officials. scale of the outbreak remains grossly the city of Wuhan, in central Chi- a possible economic recession. Medical Crisis COVID-19 was most severe in Italy, The Iranian regime has had a com- underreported. Reviewing available na. As the world welcomed a new A variety of factors have facilitated Under political or economic influence Iran, South Korea, and Japan. Later, Ja- prehensive strategic partnership with data, an epidemiologist cited by The Idecade, the Chinese Communist Party the rapid spread of the virus, officially from the People’s Republic of Chi- pan and South Korea were surpassed by China since 2016, and its ties with Bei- Washington Post on March 5 estimated (CCP) opted to suppress information termed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease na (PRC), many foreign entities and Germany and France, respectively. Not jing began years before that. In viola- that the actual number of people infect- about the emerging crisis until it could that it causes, COVID-19. In light of politicians, including international all of these countries are located near tion of international sanctions, Iran has ed in Iran could have been up to 28,000, no longer remain hidden. the CCP’s role in allowing the virus to organizations, have been swayed to China, but all have extensive interests imported embargoed materials from nearly five times what the regime had Nearly two months after mainland spread throughout China and create the extent that they take the side of the in the PRC. China, while continuing to sell oil to reported at the time. The official Chinese authorities acknowledged a global pandemic, The Epoch Times CCP, accommodating the pernicious Italy, the most heavily affected the outbreak and the existence of the refers to the pathogen as the CCP virus. communist system and turning a blind country outside China as of March contagious virus, the crisis had spread Globalization has brought the peoples eye to unspeakable crimes committed 20, was the first (and only) G-7 nation The heaviest-hit regions outside China all share a around the globe, assuming epidemic of the world into closer contact, mak- by the mainland Chinese authorities. to sign onto the PRC’s Belt and Road proportions in multiple regions. The ing it easier for contagious diseases Recent decades have seen the PRC Initiative (BRI, also known as One Belt, common thread: close or lucrative relations with number of infected beyond China’s to spread. Yet the heaviest-hit regions greatly expand its power in economic One Road). In an attempt to prop up the communist regime in Beijing.

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CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES MEHDI BOLOURIAN/FARS NEWS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES count for Iran as of March 20 stood at technology and jobs to mainland nearly 20,000. China in an onslaught abetted by In South Korea, the public has grown opportunistic profit-seekers, who increasingly critical of President Moon compromised America’s conscience. Jae-in for refusing to ban Chinese tour- Recently, the CCP has attempted to ists at large and instead only barring portray its draconian handling of the entry for those who recently traveled epidemic as a triumph for the Party’s to Hubei Province, the epicenter of the authoritarian system, going so far as to epidemic in China. pin the blame for a disaster of its own More than 1.4 million people have making on the United States. Misled by signed a petition to the Presidential the CCP’s propaganda machine and a Blue House calling for Moon to be left-leaning domestic media environ- impeached. The petition text reads, ment fixated on the failures—whether “Seeing Moon Jae-in’s response to the real or imagined—of the U.S. system, new epidemic, we feel that he is more many Chinese residing overseas have of a President for China than Korea.” made the decision to return home. But the Chinese historical record is Political Peril more sobering. Throughout the cen- Taiwan, despite its proximity to and turies, plagues and other calamities extensive business with mainland signaled the downfall of imperial China, has seen a relatively small dynasties. And at present—with growing DISINFECTION professionals spray antiseptic solution at a market in Seoul, South Korea, on IRANIAN DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER Iraj Harirchi wipes the sweat off his face, during a press number of infections. Feb. 26, 2020. conference in the capital Tehran on Feb. 24, 2020. Iran's deputy health minister confirmed on numbers of whistleblowers standing up On Jan. 26, Johns Hopkins University Feb. 25, that he has tested positive for the CCP virus, amid a major outbreak in the country. to contradict official figures that down- identified Taiwan as having the sec- February, Taiwan banned entry to and rule of law since last year, the out- play the mainland epidemic—the CCP’s ond-highest risk of epidemic spread out- foreign nationals who have traveled break has been similarly subdued. claim that it has curbed the virus rings side China. However, robust prevention to the PRC. As of March 20, there were By contrast, Japan, albeit not geostra- been sickened in the rest of Europe. In the late 1970s, in the early days as false as the lies it deployed last year to measures there have proven effective. just 135 confirmed cases in Taiwan. tegically aligned with the PRC, placed As with Italy, many of these coun- of the CCP’s deceptive economic cover up the initial outbreak in Wuhan. Taiwan officials began to board The self-ruled island has been held as profit over prudence. With millions of tries have unwisely—and against reforms, it was the port of Seattle that Taking history as a mirror, as ancient planes and assess passengers on Dec. a model for epidemic control, despite Chinese traveling to Japan for shop- admonishment by U.S. officials over welcomed the first Chinese cargo Chinese scholars did, it is apparent 31, 2019, after Wuhan authorities being repeatedly denied participation ping and sightseeing annually, the the past few years—persisted in their ships. In the years since, with increas- that the pandemic is a calamity linked first confirmed the outbreak. In early in the CCP-friendly WHO. country was slow to close its borders to flirtations with the PRC. France and ing enthusiasm from local politicians with the CCP and its 70 years of brutal As China affairs commentator Heng mainland arrivals. Japan was among Germany serve as typical examples, and businesses, Seattle has hosted all rule. And today, the world is an inter- SCREENSHOT He put it, Taiwan has a clear under- one of the first countries to report cas- having not taken seriously the risks four of the PRC’s heads of state, from connected community. Any country, standing of the communist regime es outside of China, and the number of of inviting the PRC-controlled Hua- Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. community, or organization that keeps and may be the only state that learned infected is now in the thousands. wei to take part in the construction of The decades since saw the CCP too close to the CCP and falls for its de- the lessons of the 2003 SARS outbreak, More than 256 Japanese cities and 190 their 5G infrastructure. wage a secret Cold War against the ception will taste the bitter fruits of that which also began in China. in South Korea have twinning agree- United States, funneling America’s involvement. In Hong Kong, which has seen mil- ments with cities in mainland China. The Root of the lions of residents stand up to Beijing’s With the CCP virus’s surge in Italy, Epidemic Is the CCP encroachment on the city’s freedoms more than a hundred thousand have In the United States, one of the earliest- and worst-hit places was the Taiwan, which has seen a relatively small number Seattle area in Washington state. By of infections, has a clear understanding of the March 20, the state had seen 74 deaths A SCREENSHOT from footage of bodies at communist regime and may be the only state that Behesht-e Masoumeh morgue in Qom, Iran, It is apparent that the pandemic is a calamity from the virus, around a third of the posted on social media. linked with the CCP and its 70 years of brutal rule. national total. learned the lessons of the 2003 SARS outbreak.

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CCP Attempts to Shift Blame for Virus to US Chinese communist regime launches global disinformation campaign

BOWEN XIAO increasingly been a target of its propaganda. And some in the United States are sprawling and aggressive buying it. disinformation campaign “Deception, disinformation, manipu- unleashed globally by the lation, distortion of the facts, obscuring Chinese Communist Party their true intentions, and the patient A(CCP), sparked by a motley mix of inter- steady erosion of the will to resist on nal failures, aims to upend the narrative the part of others is something that very over the pandemic—and it’s happening much feeds into the global ambitions of in real time. the Chinese Communist Party to dom- The propaganda push, which has esca- inate the world,” Frank Gaffney, former lated in recent weeks, aims primarily to assistant secretary of defense for interna- deflect blame over the Chinese regime’s tional security policy during the Reagan botched handling of the CCP virus, sow administration, told The Epoch Times. discord internationally, and portray the “It’s just one manifestation of it, but it’s image that the regime has contained the a particularly insidious one, and it’s one outbreak. that we ought to be alive to now,” said Former U.S. government officials, Chi- Gaffney, who is the executive chairman na experts, and national security consul- of the Center for Security Policy. tants told The Epoch Times that the dis- “Because, in some ways, it’s the leading information campaign points to a bigger edge of the larger, longer-term, and even issue—Beijing’s global aspirations. The more dangerous effort they [China] are campaign has helped stir anger from mounting.” Chinese citizens away from the regime Internal government documents ob- and toward the United States, which has tained by The Epoch Times have

Internal documents reveal that the regime purposefully underreported cases of the CCP virus and censored STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA STR/AFP A MEDICAL STAFF MEMBER INSIDE an isolation discussions of the outbreak, helping to fuel the spread ward at the Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on March 10, 2020. of the disease.

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KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES relations,” as President Donald Trump has mentioned before. The disinformation campaign hasn’t gone unnoticed. In recent days, Trump administration officials and U.S. politicians have spoken out against Chi- na’s recent propaganda push. At a March 17 briefing, Trump said: “China was put- ting out information which was false, that our military gave this [virus] to them. That was false, and rather than having an argument, I have to call it where it came from. It did come from China.” KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES FRAYER/GETTY KEVIN Bonnie Glaser, a former consultant for the departments of Defense and State, said Beijing seeks to protect the por- trayal of its country internationally, as well as internally. She noted that there already several legal cases that Ameri- cans are filing against China, including TWO PERSONS wearing protective masks and suits arrive at Beijing Railway Station on March 13, 2020. CHINESE POLICE WEARING masks march during a duty change in Beijing on Feb. 3, 2020. The Berman Law Group, which recently highlighted how the regime purpose- States, and parrot propaganda narratives. ing disinformation campaign is to “shift filed a federal class-action lawsuit against fully underreported cases of the CCP A Twitter spokesperson didn’t respond to blame and escape responsibility for its the Chinese regime for causing the pan- own citizens. U.S. national security ad- Trump administration’s recent actions virus and censored discussions of the a request for comment about whether the gross negligence and lack of cooperation demic. viser Robert O’Brien, during a speech at targeting Chinese state-run media out- outbreak, helping to fuel the spread of company is aware of the bots and if it has with international health organizations.” “It will harm China’s global image if Washington-based think tank Heritage lets in the United States. the disease, which is now confirmed to any plans to remove them. Bosco, a national security consul- Beijing is blamed for mismanaging the Foundation on March 11, said the regime There are additional perceived benefits have infected more than 240,000 people Another narrative gaining traction in tant and a fellow at the Institute for epidemic early on and allowing it to af- had initially attempted to censor doctors for the regime in focusing on America. internationally. U.S. media holds that calling the patho- Corean-American Studies, said there’s an fect the rest of the world,” Glaser told The who tried to speak about the outbreak, “so By targeting the United States, the Chinese officials and state-run media gen "the Wuhan virus" is racist, despite underlying reason why the United States Epoch Times via email. Glaser is a senior that word of this virus could not get out.” CCP garners widespread attention and have amplified conspiracy theories on the fact that Chinese state-run media was specifically targeted. adviser for Asia and director of the China “It probably cost the world community enables them to renege on some of their social media platforms such as Twitter, have used the term themselves, as seen “Communist China sees the U.S. as the Power Project at the Center for Strategic two months to respond,” O’Brien said. recent agreements with Washington on most recently pushing claims that the in Xinhua, the Global Times, and else- main obstacle to its aggressive global am- and International Studies. In recent weeks, China has also pushed trade investment and intellectual prop- origin of the virus isn’t clear, or came where. Previous diseases such as Ebola, bitions,” he said. “It seeks to enhance the “China seeks to be seen as a responsible the narrative of a declining number of in- erty, according to Peter Huessy, president from the U.S. military, or that the CCP’s Zika, the West Nile virus, Lyme disease, CCP’s credibility and legitimacy, and to global player that can contribute effec- fections, and encouraged people to re- and founder of GeoStrategic Analysis, a containment efforts bought time for the and the Spanish flu are all named after delegitimize the U.S. and the West.” tively to addressing global problems,” she turn to China. Li Lanjuan, a senior expert defense and national security company rest of the world to prepare. the location where the virus emerged. The United States can combat the disin- said. “By demonstrating the effectiveness at China’s National Health Commission, in Potomac, Maryland. State-run Chinese outlets, many of vJoseph Bosco, a former China country formation push “by fighting CCP lies with of China’s domestic governance system, told Chinese state media that if all goes Huessy told The Epoch Times that which have an English-language website, desk officer in the Office of the Secretary the truth,” Bosco said. He said the admin- Beijing can advance its goal of leading well, China might be cleared of all new China’s disinformation has dire effects have pushed these theories almost daily, of Defense (2005–2006), told The Epoch istration should “demand and impose global governance reform and promote infections by March 20. and makes it more difficult to protect the with some articles even threatening the Times the aim of the regime’s sprawl- reciprocity on all aspects of U.S.–China the Chinese model as an option for de- Gaffney said: “We should be ensuring health and welfare of people not only the United States directly, as seen in a March veloping countries to copy.” that the people of China are ... exposed to United States, but globally. 17 editorial in Xinhua, which stated, “The If the regime successfully portrays it- the truth. There’s a lot of talk now about “The entire Chinese strategy is one of U.S. side should immediately correct its self handing the crisis effectively, “the reciprocity, especially with respect to mass disinformation and misdirection,” wrongful behaviors ... before it is too late.” Another narrative gaining traction in U.S. media CCP can further undermine the appeal journalists.” he said. “While China pretends to be a Although Chinese citizens are blocked holds that using the term 'Wuhan virus' is racist, of democracy and capitalism around the The CCP is set to expel U.S. journalists responsible member of the internation- from using Twitter, bots have been world.” based in China who work for The New al community, in reality, they are doing swarming the platform to defend the despite that the Chinese state-run media have used Internally, China is actively pushing York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much to undermine the rule of law and communist regime, attack the United the term themselves. its propaganda about the virus on its The Washington Post in retaliation for the human rights.”

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GREG BAKER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES DIANA ZHANG CCP virus has surpassed 1 million. We have no way to prove or disprove that t’s always been a mystery to me number. Recent reports of the remain- as to why America dealt with the ing number of cellphone users in China Soviet Union as an evil commu- suggest the number of deaths may be nist regime, but treated China as far higher than previously suggested. a mild one that could be bought China has three cellphone carriers. with money and a good lifestyle. China Mobile reported that it lost IWe thought we were rich enough, roughly 7.25 million users in February, powerful enough, and attractive while China Telecom lost 5.6 million enough to change China into a nor- A paramilitary police officer stands guard in users in February. The relatively small mal society such as one in the free Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, on March 11, 2018. China Unicom hasn’t released its world. Instead, the business and in- packaging and understands the West February report. But in January, it lost vestment from the United States have better—so it can do a better job of tak- about 1.19 million users. made the Chinese Communist Party ing advantage of the West. Its propa- Supposing that China Unicom kept all (CCP) stronger. The CCP is like a can- ganda always uses the United States as its users in February, the entire Chinese cer that sucks nutrition from a healthy a negative example, telling the Chinese market still lost about 12.85 million organ to become a bigger threat to the people that the CCP is better. cellphone users that month. How many whole body. In many ways, the CCP has nev- of those people died in the past month? The spread of the CCP virus around er changed—its nature has never With the CCP concealing information the world shows us how dangerous the changed. During the Great Famine, about the virus, the world has been CCP is. It is contagious. It is invisible. CCP officials blockaded many villages, caught unprepared. Now, we have be- It is deadly. It is a threat to everyone on not allowing people to go out to beg for come victims, as the virus has crossed this planet. food. It was more important to the CCP borders. Should we continue to deal When The Epoch Times published the to hide the truth. with the CCP like we are dealing with editorial series, “Nine Commentaries on Sixty years later, when the coronavi- a group of gentlemen? We have lost our the Communist Party,” which lays bare rus spread, some villages were sealed manufacturing jobs; we have lost intel- the history of the CCP, readers wrote to off, some homes were locked from lectual property. Now, are we are going us asking, “Where was The New York the outside. Some children starved to to lose our family members, and maybe Times when this was happening?” death. our own lives? When the Great Leap Forward hap- The CCP says there have been 3,259 When a cancer continues to grow, pened and millions were killed, we deaths from the virus, but this doesn’t what is the end result? thought it was a China issue. When the match what we have seen happening Fortunately, we are still strong as a Great Famine happened and 40 million in China. We know cremation centers country. However, when good cells fight people starved to death, it was a remote in Wuhan were operating 24 hours a off cancer, it’s a life-and-death struggle. problem. When the Tiananmen Square day, seven days a week. Outside some If we don’t see this clearly, if we don’t massacre happened, we continued to villages, bodies were burned in open- take out the CCP as soon as possible, a do business with the CCP. When the air pits. Forty mobile furnaces were more deadly virus might come. This CCP persecution of the spiritual practice Fa- shipped to Wuhan. Each can burn five virus should be lesson enough for us. lun Gong happened, we tried to please tons of “medical waste and dead animal Eliminating the CCP doesn’t require the CCP by looking away. bodies” (animal bodies or human bod- World War III. If we cut our ties to it, it In some ways, the CCP has changed. ies?) each day. will starve to death quickly, like a can- It actually has grown. It has slicker Insiders say the death toll from the cer separated from its host. THE U.S. FLAG FLIES over shipping cranes and containers in Long Beach, Calif., on March 4, 2019.

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The Korean War-era statute will force broadly and China specifically. certain U.S. companies to produce goods ROBERT ATKINSON that are in short supply, such as medical founder and president, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation masks, ventilators, gloves, testing swabs, and other essential equipment. sensitive technologies. “Certainly, the Trump tariffs and the “The coronavirus pandemic is going These policies spurred innovation in trade war have also sent that message to to have serious implications for how we China, but that came at the expense of many companies and so they were al- think about globalization broadly and innovation in Western economies, ac- ready moving in that direction,” he said. China specifically,” said Robert Atkinson, cording to ITIF. “The coronavirus will, I believe, acceler- founder and president of the Information Globalization, the most powerful eco- ate that movement and encourage more Technology and Innovation Foundation nomic force to have shaped the world companies to take it more seriously.” (ITIF), a U.S. think tank. over the past two decades, is now giving “I think the days when everybody just way to a new world order. Souring senti- Exodus From China assumed that there’s just one integrated ment against globalization in the past few In an effort to diversify its supply chain, global market that we can all trust—those years, particularly in developed coun- Apple last year asked its top suppliers to days are gone. And there’ll be some reper- tries, led to a global revival of nationalism consider moving 15 to 30 percent of their cussions from it, and I think China will and protectionism. That marked a fun- production to Southeast Asia from China. end up paying the price.” damental shift in the global trade order. It also started the process of moving the ITIF has long been critical of Beijing Atkinson said the trade war and the manufacturing of AirPods, its popular for embarking on “innovation mercan- CCP virus outbreak have made U.S. wireless earbuds, to Vietnam from China. tilist” policies, which include massive companies even more concerned about Atkinson believes roughly half of AirPod government subsidies, industrial espi- supply chain vulnerabilities and depen- production is now done in Vietnam. onage, cyber theft, forced joint ventures dency on China. They are now pushed to The trade war between the United in exchange for market access, and ac- create more resilient and diverse supply States and China has turned into a boon quisition of foreign companies to attain chains. for countries such as Vietnam and Ma- laysia. Large corporations have been able STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES A WORKER PRODUCES protective masks at a factory in Handan, Hebei Province, China, on Feb. 28, 2020. to quickly switch to producers in these countries for electronic products and fur- niture that were affected by U.S. tariffs. At least 50 multinational companies, Severe Supply Disruptions Could including American, Japanese, and Taiwanese, last year announced plans to move manufacturing out of China to Speed Demise of Globalization avoid punitive tariffs, according to research by Nikkei Asian Review. EMEL AKAN to a grinding halt. Party (CCP) virus, commonly referred to U.S. personal-computer makers Hewl- American companies dependent on as the novel coronavirus, has disrupted ett-Packard and Dell, footwear company ASHINGTON—Govern- global sourcing are facing an unprece- supply chains for nearly 75 percent of U.S. Skechers, athletic footwear and appar- ments and businesses dented type of disruption amid the pan- companies, according to an Institute for el manufacturer Brooks Running, and are learning hard lessons demic. And the ones that heavily or solely Supply Management survey conducted small video camera producer GoPro were from the rapid spread of rely on factories in China for parts and in late February and early March. among those companies. Wthe CCP virus that is causing supply dis- materials are the hardest hit. In addition, there is a shortage of air and If Apple decides to exit China, that will ruptions across the globe. The Chinese state required factory ocean freight options to bring products have a big impact on a lot of companies, Closings related to the virus, which shutdowns across most of its provinces to the United States, compounding the causes the disease COVID-19, have been in February, and U.S. companies have delivery delays. WORKERS CHECK LAPTOP PARTS in Lu'an City, bringing the U.S. and global economies felt the effects. The Chinese Communist The crisis prompted President Donald China, on Nov. 19, 2018.

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KENA BETANCUR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES I don’t think it’s right for our companies to do business with someone who is potentially an enemy to our country and who does not have our country’s best interests at heart. RAY ZINN founder and former CEO, Micrel Semiconductors said Ray Zinn, founder and former CEO in 1978 until his retirement in 2015. He lose trust in China. He said FBI agents of Micrel Semiconductors. claims to have been the longest-serving in 2005 swarmed his factory in San Jose, Apple is the world’s largest consumer CEO of a publicly traded company in California, after they had found parts of electronics, buying chips, glass, alu- Silicon Valley. produced by Micrel in explosive devic- minum casings, cables, circuit boards, For decades, he watched many U.S. es that were being used in Afghanistan and many other products from suppli- firms moving their manufacturing op- and Iraq. ers that are mainly concentrated in erations to low-cost countries. “We found that it was a distributor China. “My company never did go to China,” in China that was buying our parts, According to Zinn, iPhone assemblers he said. through Korea and Japan, and then such as Foxconn can easily pull out of “Back in 2000, when we had the Y2K selling them to Iraq. So, once I found China but moving component manu- and the dot-com explosion, my com- that out, I didn’t trust China. Because facturing is more challenging. pany’s executives wanted to move to that was killing our soldiers,” he said. Nevertheless, the U.S. government China, because everybody else was Zinn urges other U.S. companies to could easily put pressure on compa- moving. I said, ‘No, we are not going to have a conscience and do what’s best nies such as Apple to shift their supply go to China.’” for the country. chains by imposing tariffs, he told The He admits such moves brought cost “I don’t think it’s right for our compa- Epoch Times. benefits and competitive advantage to nies to do business with someone who those companies in the short term. is potentially an enemy to our country China Lost Trust “But in the long term, I think they’re and who does not have our country’s Zinn was at the forefront of the semi- going to pay a price for that. I didn’t best interests at heart,” he said. conductor industry, serving as CEO and want our technology stolen,” he said. China has lost global trust and good- president of Micrel from its inception An incident 15 years ago made Zinn will over its handling of the CCP virus

CHUNG I HO/THE EPOCH TIMES outbreak as well, media reports say. Experts believe the U.S. government PEOPLE PASS BY TIMES SQUARE on March 22, 2020. Amid the CCP virus pandemic, the White House is preparing an executive order to help relocate medical supply chains from China to the United States. can encourage more companies to relocate manufacturing to the United States Medical Supply Chain tive equipment in hospitals across the Dealmed distributes more than 25,000 from China by offering a tax holiday or The United States is heavily dependent United States. products in New York, New Jersey, Con- tax incentives. on China for health care products, which “There’s a logistics nightmare right necticut, and Pennsylvania. And more White House economic adviser Larry makes the country vulnerable to supply now on top of everything,” said Michael than 50 percent of those products are Kudlow told reporters on March 16 that chain disruptions. And the outbreak has Einhorn, president of Dealmed Medical sourced from China, he said. the Trump administration is consider- been a huge wake-up call for policymak- Supplies, a New York-based medical sup- Due to the trade war, Einhorn had to ing a plan to offer incentives to the U.S. ers as the regime in Beijing has exacerbat- ply distributor. move 35 percent of his business to Ma- firms to bring production back onshore. ed this vulnerability problem. While factories in China are reopened laysia, the United States, and Mexico The White House also is preparing an China is the dominant supplier of cru- and running at 90 percent of capacity, his last year from China. However, he said, executive order to help relocate medical cial medicines, active ingredients, and company can’t bring the products into China is still a crucial supplier of PPE supply chains from China to the United personal protective equipment (PPE) the United States fast enough, because products, such as protective masks and States amid the pandemic crisis. such as face masks, respirators, surgical of high demand and shipping backlogs, isolation gowns. gowns, and gloves. he told The Epoch Times. The pandemic is a very serious lesson Rising global demand and slowing “We’re trying to get things out of Chi- for this country, he said. “We need to EMPTY SHELVES that normally hold toilet paper, at a Target store in New York on production in China due to the outbreak na, but it’s becoming very, very difficult,” move medical manufacturing back into March 13, 2020. have created a severe shortage of protec- he said. the United States.”

Telling Chinese People the Truth About the CCP

CATHERINE YANG That’s the level of brainwashing the CCP is capable of meting out, Xiao t’s not just Americans who are said. It isn’t something many in the only now realizing the extent of West can understand, having never the Chinese Communist Party’s experienced it firsthand. (CCP) influence and its decep- Itions—many Chinese living in main- Turning Points land China are in the same boat. But, in 1998, Xiao’s world changed. She For nearly 20 years, Jianglan Xiao has was gifted a book by a kind dentist she taken sharing the truth with the Chi- met who had made an impression on nese people as her mission. Working her. When she read it, she realized it from California, she’s trying to warn was a guide to being a better person. people in China about the CCP’s “Zhuan Falun,” the main text of lies. With the rise of the CCP virus, the spiritual practice Falun Gong, commonly known as novel coronavi- teaches truthfulness, compassion, rus, they are starting to really listen. and forbearance. Xiao realized it was The CCP is capable of vile, outright completely at odds with the culture evil, and it carries out these acts in she lived in, but that was who she now broad daylight, said Xiao, who grew wanted to be. She took up the practice up in China. “I know, because I know and did the five meditative exercises the CCP,” she said. every day. Xiao’s father was a school president, A year later, Xiao got married and which meant that during the Cultur- moved to the United States. Only a al Revolution in the 1960s and ‘70s, few months after her move, she heard he was sent to labor camps—but not some very upsetting news. Her sister before being publicly denounced and told her that in China, Falun Gong humiliated. This was the norm for all (also known as Falun Dafa) had been scholars and intellectuals. As a child, officially banned by the Chinese Com- she didn’t understand what was hap- munist Party and that those who re- EDWARD DYE/THE EPOCH TIMES EPOCH DYE/THE EDWARD pening; she only thought that if every- fused to renounce the practice were one was saying her father was bad, he being detained and sent to “re-educa- PARTICIPANTS HOLD signs in a parade to mark World Falun Dafa Day, must have been bad. tion camps”—in other words, brain- in New York on May 15, 2015. For years, she felt ashamed of him washing centers. and didn’t even want to call him her At the time, in 1999, the number of father. Falun Gong practitioners in China

EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION CCP VIRUS SPECIAL EDITION EPOCH TIMES MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2020 EARLY WARNINGS EARLY WARNINGS TELLING CHINESE PEOPLE TELLING CHINESE PEOPLE 50 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CCP THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CCP 51 had risen to an estimated 70 million to EDWARD DYE/THE EPOCH TIMES 100 million—many more than the num- For years, she felt ashamed of him and didn’t even ber of CCP members. While Xiao was shocked, she knew what want to call him her father. That’s the level of the CCP was capable of and could see why brainwashing the CCP is capable of meting out. the Party wouldn’t want something so antithetical to its culture to thrive. in the persecution of Falun Gong. Often, the start of the movement, Xiao and other “Falun Dafa teaches us to be good peo- they speak to people directly involved in callers have asked listeners to withdraw ple,” she said. “The CCP does not want us the oppression—those who say they have from the CCP. to be good people.” orders to go to practitioners’ homes, con- For Xiao, the CCP’s actions also ce- fiscate their books and belongings, and CCP Virus Coverup mented the fact that the Party stood for make arrests. Things took another turn with the rise of evil; how else could one be opposed to The listeners are almost always terri- the CCP virus. truthfulness, compassion, and toler- fied, Xiao added, but she and other “Last December, we already knew ance? Far worse, the CCP began a callers appeal to their hu- about the CCP virus, that it start- vicious propaganda campaign manity, and some- ed in Wuhan, but they didn’t that deceived Chinese citi- times that ap- want to listen,” Xiao said. At zens into believing that the proach works. the time, the CCP was still persecution of the peaceful Some listeners covering up all news of the practice was justified. realize that the virus as if it wasn’t spreading CCP is wrong but in China. Calling China are scared to chal- By January, the dam had bro- In 2001, from her home in Cal- lenge the Party. ken, and people appeared to ifornia, Xiao and an elderly JIANGLAN XIAO Others will stay on XIAOFANG GUO be starved for the truth. neighbor began calling people has dedicated the past the line for only a was persecuted by the “Since January, they lis- 20 years to telling Chinese Communist inside China to try to share the people in China about few seconds be- Party and detained tened very well,” Xiao said. truth with them. the Chinese communist fore hanging up, in a labor camp for But it was short-lived. “This was back before we had regime's lies. but will stay on practicing Falun Gong. Only a week or two later, cellphones,” she said. “Some COURTESY OF JIANGLAN XIAO longer during a CHUNG I HO/THE EPOCH TIMES telephone calls began to be people would scold and curse subsequent call, preceded by an automated us, and sometimes I just had to put the re- listening for minutes at a time. message from the state reminding citi- ceiver down until they were out of steam. zens to not “spread rumors.” The remind- FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS hold a banner supporting the over 300 million people who quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, during a parade in Manhattan on May 16, 2019. And then some of them would listen, and ‘Tuidang’ er that the surveillance state was watch- some would believe.” In 2004, amid this brutal persecution of ing spooked listeners. Xiao noticed that Guo describes what sounds like a curse at her, and violently grab materials The CCP’s reach is long enough that All media in China are state-run and Falun Gong, The Epoch Times published more people were suddenly hanging up thankless job. Sometimes, people call out of her hands and throw them on the even those who understand the lies are publish the same Party propaganda. “Nine Commentaries on the Communist on the calls. her a liar, say the CCP is good because it ground. too scared to speak out, or even be seen With nowhere else to turn to for infor- Party.” The editorial series detailed the pays them, and tell her the persecution is “They’ve listened to all of the lies for 20 listening to the truth. mation, everyone with whom Xiao spoke history of the CCP and laid bare its crimes Outreach in New York long over or even that it’s perfectly normal years,” Guo said. Even outside of China, “They’ll say they still have to go back to believed the CCP’s lies. “But we had to let against humanity. The truth shocked In New York, Xiaofang Guo tries to share for that sort of persecution to take place many of the people she speaks to get their China—they’re really scared,” Guo said. them know [the truth],” she said. Chinese people living in China and information with the large population in China. She’s had people shout at her, news from China-run media sources. Then there are some who will listen Xiao made many calls in those first abroad, and sparked a global movement of Chinese nationals she sees on Main to her, then ask specific questions. They years, in her spare time. Over the past 10 to quit the CCP, also known as “tuidang” Street in the Flushing neighborhood of want to know if Guo can refute the CCP’s years, Xiao said, she has dedicated one (“quit the party”). Queens. She has been persecuted herself Some people would scold and curse us, and talking points. After listening to facts and morning per week to making the calls. The series has since been made avail- by the CCP, detained in a labor camp for reason, they might even tell Guo they are And since the spread of the CCP virus, able in 33 languages and has inspired more than a year between 2011 and 2013, sometimes I just had to put the receiver down until thankful for her mission and now support she has been trying to do more whenever more than 350 million people to quit the for practicing Falun Gong. they were out of steam. And then some of them Falun Gong. she can. Chinese Communist Party and its affili- Most people don’t want to listen, Guo “I want to save Chinese people from Xiao, and others like her, try to call po- ated organizations, to date. said. Even so, she’s been trying to reach would listen, and some would believe. the lies,” Guo said. “I really think I have lice stations and centers that are involved Since the publication of the series, and out regularly, since 2015. JIANGLAN XIAO a mission to do this.”

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BELIEF IN GOD TRUMP’S NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER DURING CCP VIRUS CRISIS NETTLED CRITICS, BUT AMERICA STILL A PRAYING NATION 53

prayer a few hours after the D-Day inva- We are a country that, throughout our history, has sion of Europe began, while Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation looked to God for protection and strength in times during the Civil War was an invitation like these. to prayer. The first “national” day of prayer was PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP in a tweet declared for July 20, 1775, by the Conti- nental Congress. And the official annual with this. But mocking him for pray- individual appeals to the Almighty. National Day of Prayer is held on the first ing—like 79 percent of Americans have “We are a Country that, throughout our Thursday of May, by an act of Congress done in the past 3 months—is why so history, has looked to God for protection signed by the president. many regular Americans despise wine- and strength in times like these,” Trump To this day, members of the Senate and-cheese liberals.” wrote on Twitter. “No matter where you and House of Representatives are led by A few days after the Pence prayer photo may be, I encourage you to turn towards their respective chaplains each day in an became public, President Donald Trump prayer in an act of faith. Together, we will opening prayer. In short, America has declared March 15 a National Day of easily PREVAIL!” been officially praying since before the Prayer. Millions of Americans partici- Trump isn’t the first president to declare nation’s founding. pated through online church services, such a day. Franklin D. Roosevelt took to Americans have long been and remain VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE PRAYS with the White House Coronavirus Task Force in his West Wing office on Feb. 26, 2020. in family prayer sessions, and in quiet the radio personally to lead the nation in a praying people. Merritt’s reference to 79 percent of Americans having prayed at STF/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES least once in the past three months comes from a 2017 survey of 1,015 adults by the Barna Group, which also found: Trump’s National Day of Prayer During “American adults who pray with regu- larity do so with varying motivations, the most common being to offer ‘gratitude CCP Virus Crisis Nettled Critics, but and thanksgiving’ (62 percent). Gener- ationally, this is lowest among millenni- als (53 percent) and highest among baby America Still a Praying Nation boomers (71 percent).” Barna also found that 61 percent pray for the needs of their MARK TAPSCOTT Pence and his coronavirus emergency Graham wrote on Twitter: “A touching & families and communities. team praying for a solution. We are so powerful photo of [Vice President Mike Barna editor Roxanne Stone said the ASHINGTON—Secular [expletive].” Pence] & the President’s Coronavirus study demonstrates that “prayer is by media critics were out- Similarly, Gizmodo editor Matt Novak Taskforce praying when they met last far the most common spiritual practice raged when the White wrote on Twitter: “Mike Pence can pray week in his office. Thank you VP Pence among Americans.” House made public ear- whenever he likes, but I do find it odd to and each one who is serving. Let’s join “The vast majority of Americans— Wlier this month a photo of Vice President see him leading a prayer during a meet- them in asking God for His wisdom, di- no matter their religious affiliation or Mike Pence leading members of the Coro- ing of the coronavirus task force with rection, & help in the response to this non-affiliation—participate in some kind navirus Task Force in prayer for the nation people like the head of the CDC [Centers virus.” of prayer activity. Barna has found this to and for their work. for Disease Control and Prevention] and And Jonathan Merritt, a contribut- be true consistently over the last several The internet promptly exploded. Dr. [Anthony] Fauci.” ing writer for The Atlantic, respond- decades,” she said. Typical was this tweet from Thomas But Pence had his robust defenders as ing specifically to Williams, observed: Chatterton Williams, a writer for New well. “Criticize Mike Pence all you want for HOURS AFTER U.S. TROOPS landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, President Franklin D. Contact Mark Tapscott at York and Harper’s magazines: “Mike Samaritan’s Purse founder Franklin being inept in his strategy to dealing Roosevelt personally led the nation in prayer. [email protected]

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