Analysts say China’s new Covid‑19 report exposes CCP’s biggest fears

News Analysis

Beijing’s latest white paper on Covid-19 has not only rehashed propaganda.

Analysts say the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has revealed its biggest fear, while revealing its biggest fear.

The 23-page report entitled “Prevention, Control and Tracking the Origin of Covid‑19: China’s Behavior and Attitude” points to the US as the origin of the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes Covid-19, delivering a veiled jab to the Trump administration, and China dedicated Missouri to hored bill billion for billion for billion for firniveris for bill billion for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for beers for

“If the virus proved to have originated from a state-backed lab in Wuhan, the CCP was forced to address many questions about gain-of-function research, motivation and early concealment, allowing the pathogen to spread overseas.

If the CCP admitted it had failed to handle Covid-19, he said, “it would mean confessing a crime against humanity.”

Related Stories

Tan sees the white paper as a preemptive strike in a larger US-China tariff dispute. US and Chinese trade officials negotiated in Geneva on May 10-11, resulting in a 90-day trade ceasefire that led to both sides rewinding massive tariffs and providing further consultation time.

“Beijing assumes that Washington could use virus origin probes as negotiation chips,” he said. “To neutralize that card, it moved the water into mud early.”

He compares tactics to how Beijing manages the exports of fentanyl precursors.

Former US Army microbiologist Sean Lynn describes the report as a classic example of the CCP’s cognitive warfare. It aims to obscure the truth, hold Washington accountable and avoid accountability.

Assertion of American origin

In the white paper, the CCP is reviving an unfounded theory that the virus has leaked from the U.S. Army Research Institute in Fort Detrick, Maryland, according to Lynn, who is also a former Labody Lecter of the Department of Viral Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute.

The facility, home to the U.S. Army Medical Institute’s Institute of Infectious Diseases, was briefly closed in 2019 after testing by the CDC. The lab reported that ongoing infrastructure issues with wastewater decontamination caused a shutdown order to be issued. The CDC did not disclose the reason for the closure, citing national security concerns.

The Beijing white paper also cites research published in the Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases in November 2020. It was collected on January 17, 2020 with SARS‑COV‑2 positive antibodies from Red Cross blood samples collected in nine US states during December 13, 2019, and claims to be surrounded by the environment early in December 2019.

Tan calls manipulation a typical CCP tactic: “attack as a defence” and “a mirror accusation.”

He noted that every time foreign governments question Beijing’s transparency, China’s national media floats a narrative of alternative virus origins tailored to those countries.

For example, when Italian authorities forced more data on the outbreak on China, Chinese state media distorted the Italian doctor’s remarks suggesting that the pandemic began in Italy in November 2019.

The leaked CCP documents obtained in the 2020 Epoch Times Chinese version suggest that the outbreak likely began in China several months earlier than Beijing admits.

On February 19, 2020, an order from the Central Investigation Team ordered records from October 1 to December 10, 2019 to be raised.

“If there was evidence of natural origin by almost every measure of science, it would have already emerged. But that’s not,” notes a website pointing to genetic abnormalities, single-source infection patterns, and LAX biosafety practices at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

It also noted that researchers became ill with symptoms like COVID in the fall of 2019 before the virus was detected in Wuhan’s wet market.

Data concealment, whistleblowers suppression

The white paper argues that Beijing has notified the world in a “timely, open and transparent way” and implemented “effective science-based containment measures” to handle the outbreak.

China also claims it has quickly shared all outbreak data with the World Health Organization (WHO), hosting Wuhan experts twice, leading to the creation of the 2021 WHO-CHINA report.

However, Lynn pointed out that there were no mentions of CCP information blackouts and whistleblower doctor silencing in the second half of 2019.

In late December 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, warned his colleagues about viruses like SARS in Weibo’s private chat group, the Chinese version of social media platform X. He passed away in early February 2020 after signing with the virus, sparking protests from the Chinese people.

The CCP whitepaper does not explain why raw patient data and virus samples are out of light to independent investigators, Lynn noted.

While foreign sovereign immunity laws generally protect foreign governments, the Missouri Attorney General said the state would seek to gather rulings by seizing China-owned farmland and other assets.

Taking the lawsuit as a “politically motivated farce,” the white paper said Beijing swears retaliation, saying that if its profits are compromised, it would “never be compensated” for its claims.

The white paper describes Missouri’s pandemic response as “incompetent,” citing the state’s high mortality rate, comparing it to China’s “significant contribution” to the global battle against Covid‑19.

However, Beijing was criticized by the international community when it restricted exports at the start of the pandemic and actively acquired global supply of masks and other personal protective equipment.

Independent tally shows much greater human losses.

The economic damage is just as severe.

Lin said the Trump administration’s willingness to spotlight Uhan’s lab leak theory is a turning point.

“The problem is no longer where the virus comes from,” he said. “It’s the CCP has turned the outbreak into a global catastrophe and it has failed.”

Tan said more US states, and perhaps other countries, could file lawsuits similar to Missouri, “shattering legal and moral pressures” in Beijing.

He believes that the looming threat has already shaped the CCP’s message.

Gu Xiaohua, Cheng Mulan and Luo Ya contributed to this report.