DISINFO: Coronavirus is a US tool to disrupt Chinese production
SUMMARY
Coronavirus, Uyghur, and Huawei are a triangle of tools for the United States that work in two directions: disrupting production at home, in China, and disrupting consumption at the other end (markets). Some people may think that the claim of coronavirus being a laboratory-produced virus is an exaggeration of a conspiracy theory, and we believed when we first watched old sci-fi films, including “Resident Evil”, that this cannot ever become a reality! The crisis of the United States of America is not very different from the British crisis in the opium wars, but the tools of direct wars are no longer available today, and there is a need for much opium in the near future, starting from bacterial wars, and not ending with technological and media wars.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, as well as a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the US using biological war to crush the Chinese economy. There is no evidence that suggests that the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is used as a weapon against other states. It comes from a family of viruses that include SARS and MERS. It was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading with new cases being reported in the Asia-Pacific region as well as Europe, North America and the Middle East, causing almost 30,000 deaths as of 29 March 2020. The identity of the animal source of the coronavirus, named nCoV-2019, has been one of the key questions for the researchers. Coronaviruses are known to circulate in mammals and birds, and scientists have already suggested that nCoV-2019 originally came from bats. One of the previous coronaviruses that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, spread from bats to civet cats to humans. The South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou says that two of its researchers have identified the pangolin as the potential source of 2019-nCoV. This was announced to reporters at a press conference on 7 February 2020. There are numerous similar cases about the coronavirus pushed by pro-Kremlin media, for example, that it is an artificial disease which specifically targets Chinese DNA, that it was created with economic goals while big pharma companies are spreading panic for their own profit, that it is a biological weapon against Russia and China, that the virus is a Western tool to attack the Chinese economy, and that it is a US provocation against China.