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ASIA’S LARGEST VIRUS BANK
POINT TO NOTE
- In 2015, the WIV’s National Bio-safety Laboratory was completed at a cost of 300 million yuan ($44 million) in collaboration with the French government’s CIRI lab, and was the first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratoryto be built in mainland China.
WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY
- In January 2020, conspiracy theories circulated that the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic originated from viruses engineered by the WIV, which were refuted on the basis of scientific evidence that the virus has natural origins
INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION
- The United States has now brought the allegations into the mainstream, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying US officials are doing a “full investigation” into how the virus “got out into the world”
OTHER COUNTRIES JOINING
POINT TO NOTE
- U.S, U.K and Australia are part of a group called Five Eyes
- These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
CHINA’S REJECTION
RUSSIA SUPPORTSCHINA
CONCLUSION
- It remains a mystery why China refuses investigation in Wuhan
- U.S, U.K and Australia are not asking for investigating China’s nuclear facility, they are asking to investigate a lab that western nations developed
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