An online petition has surfaced in China asking the WHO to investigate the Fort Detrick laboratory in the United States as one possible location for the first source of the coronavirus. According to China's national media, Global Times, the online petition has already received 10 million signatures.
The Global Times also reported that there were attacks from America to disrupt the petition, but did not dampen the spirits of local netizens. A total of almost 10 million was reached within a week.
“This shows that Chinese citizens will not stop questioning American laboratories until the United States provides a plausible explanation and they are also pushing the WHO to really play its role in science rather than being an American political tool,” the Global Times wrote.
Several experts and medical officers who fought the Corona outbreak earlier in the day in Wuhan reportedly also participated in the online petition. Among them are Wang Xinguan, dean of Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital and Peng Peng, dean of Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital.
"The lack of unity and trust of mankind is one of the reasons this virus is reaching pandemic scale as it is now. China is able to control the spread of this epidemic because it has the unity and trust of its citizens," Wang said.
As reported, China reportedly used a variety of means so that the theory that the Corona virus originated in the United States resonated. This theory is an old problem, but has recently resurfaced as there is a growing demand for intensive research into Wuhan laboratories.
Basically, China wants American laboratories to be investigated, specifically at Fort Detrick, Maryland, which is a U.S. military biological weapons research facility, 80 kilometers from Washington.
"None of these claims are supported by solid evidence. But that's not the point. Beijing's persistent and consistent allegations have raised doubts in the laboratory, especially in regions of the world where there is distrust of U.S. foreign policy," said Bret Schafer, an analyst from Alliance for Securing Democracy.
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