Is that a smoking gun?

 

中国語に堪能なポティンジャー前大統領安保副補佐官は、「中国政府は認めていないが、中国軍と武漢ウイルス研究所は一連の共同研究を行ってきた。我々はそのデータを持っており、私自身そのデータを見た」と証言している。 “There is a...

島田 洋一さんの投稿 2021年3月31日水曜日

What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus

 Matt Pottinger: There is a body of research that's been taking place conducted by the Chinese military in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has not been acknowledged by the Chinese government. We've seen the data. I've personally seen the data. 

Lesley Stahl: Why the military? Why were they in that lab?

Matt Pottinger: We don't know. It is a major lead that needs to be pursued by the press, certainly by the World Health Organization. Beijing is simply not interested in allowing us to find the answers to those very pertinent questions.

What the U.S. government does know, he says, is that the Wuhan lab director published studies about manipulating bat coronaviruses in a way that could make them more infectious to humans, and there were reports of lax safety standards at the lab.

Matt Pottinger: They were doing research specifically on coronaviruses that attach to the ACE2 receptors in human lungs just like the COVID-19 virus.

Lesley Stahl: Is that a smoking gun?

〔悪事などの〕明白な［決定的な・動かぬ］証拠

Matt Pottinger: No, it's circumstantial evidence. But it's a pretty potent bullet point when you consider that the place where this pandemic emerged was a few kilometers away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The lack of transparency has led to widespread criticism of the WHO for agreeing to China's demands.