Left Review Online September 09, 2021
Editor's Note: The 90-day investigation into COVID-19 origins that US President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to conduct has come to a farcical end. Now that the Biden administration hasn't got its desirable results from the report, what will be its next moves to make...More
While the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning its next phase of COVID-19 origins study, China has made it clear that the next-phase study should be carried out in multiple places worldwide, including places outside China where samples of human and animal before the Wuhan outbreak were tested...More
The tracing of COVID-19 origins is supposed to be a task for scientists. Yet Western media have never stopped hyping speculations and smears against China. Granted, some of them, including mainstream US media outlets, remained cautious with a disapproving view on the "lab leak" theory in 2020. Yet...More
Over 2 million Chinese netizens have signed an open letter as of Tuesday noon, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) investigate the US' Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins, and the number is still increasing rapidly. The letter was issued as the WHO on Friday proposed a second...More
Prominent US and Australian scientists focused on the COVID-19 origins tracing are now facing tremendous political pressure, and some have been sidelined for not yielding to politicians-driven conspiracy theory on the matter and received anonymous threatening letters with bullets, the Global Times learned from people familiar with the...More
The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory, has once again caused a clamor since the beginning of this year, months after the argument was thrown into the trash can of conspiracy theories by an overwhelming number of scientists. Observers found that things only get more...More
Some people in the US are now extending their "black hands" to the international science community in an attempt to force scientists to bow to US hegemony, which is a violation and infringement of the scientific spirit, a destruction of global cooperation in tracing the COVID-19 origins, and...More
WHO's admission that Wuhan may not be the origin of COVID-19 may put to rest conspiracy theories that have put the central Chinese city and China in a bad light over the virus' origin, Chinese epidemiologists said. They urged for more research on transmission channels and virus host...More