Chinese Communist Party’s COVID-19 pandemic is America’s new 9/11

For nearly the past twenty years, Americans have kept vigilant against a horrific attack like the one that happened on September 11th, 2001. But is it possible we’ve actually experienced a much more devastating assault and not yet acknowledged it?

In the intelligence world, an “assessment” is a term of art used to describe a conclusion based on existing information. As a former chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, it’s my assessment that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intentionally facilitated the spread of the COVID-19 virus globally to achieve its geopolitical ambitions. The COVID-19 virus didn’t simply “escape” China. The Party weaponized it.

This is a bold claim, so let’s first review what we know for certain. At a minimum, the CCP is culpable in making a bad situation worse. We know the SARS-CoV-2 virus – the virus that produces COVID-19 – originated in China. But instead of alerting the world and working with the international community to mitigate the outbreak, the CCP engaged in a systematic disinformation and cover-up campaign unprecedented in recent memory. It deliberately destroyed early virus samples and disappeared doctors and journalists who warned against the spread. The CCP avoided the transparency that could have saved lives.

Such malign activities are not difficult to document. Once it was clear that China had a globally significant problem on its hands, further CCP obstructionism led to levels of death, and economic damage that would have been much less drastic had the Party shared what it knew at the outset. The CCP shut down flights within China while allowing outbound international flights to continue, thus facilitating the virus’s global spread. It refused the World Health Organization access to early patients. It went on a diplomatic campaign to keep Taiwan so successful at minimizing infections in early 2020, from attending the World Health Assembly meeting that year.

Perhaps most egregious was the CCP’s successful manipulation of the subsequent WHO inquiry, which adopted a “natural origin” thesis of the virus’ genesis before its investigators ever set foot in China. WHO investigators were barred from probing the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Their work did not explore the theory, likely true in my view, that the virus initially somehow escaped from the WIV – a facility which is known to have collaborated with the Chinese military on various biological weapons projects, and also performed “gain of function” research on coronaviruses (sadly, on the American taxpayer’s dime).

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