Chinese scientists, with military links, infiltrate American virology research institutions and feed the research results to the Chinese military to benefit China’s development of biological weapons, said retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D.
“China’s biological warfare program exists at three levels.”
“The first level is the secret military level and this is composed of military research centers and military hospitals.”
“The second layer, which is fused to the first layer, are China’s universities, their so-called civilian research centers like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and also some of the biotech companies in China.”
The third level is comprised of international universities and research labs, he said.
The second level, civilian research, accesses this third level and then feeds the results from the collaboration on international programs between Chinese scientists residing abroad and local scientists, back into the first level—the military level, Sellin explained.
The collaboration on research between American institutions and Chinese institutions started in 1979 with the agreement signed by then-President Jimmy Carter and the Chinese regime leader Deng Xiaoping, which allowed Chinese scientists to come to the United States to study and work, Sellin said.
Many in the first wave of Chinese scientists who came to the United States to get trained were from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the Chinese military, he said. Some of them stayed in the United States, even becoming permanent residents or citizens, he added.
“During this time, they maintain collaboration with scientists in mainland China, including scientists from the People’s Liberation Army, so I call it scientific chain migration. Those in the initial wave, who established themselves in laboratories in the United States began inviting other scientists from China, again, from the People’s Liberation Army and also other research centers in China, to the United States.”
Chinese Bio Warfare Research in America
Some research of certain scientists with the dual U.S.–China affiliation has been funded by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Sellin, who previously worked at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
This dual affiliation is often stated in their publications in scientific journals, he said.
“There have been many Chinese scientists, some of whom came from the People’s Liberation Army, who have worked there.”
There are also Chinese scientists with ties to the Chinese military working in the U.S. military scientific institutions doing research in various fields, and holding very sensitive positions, Sellin said. “It’s been going on for years.” He questioned two people in authority about this situation but had not received any response.
Variety of Biological Weapons
“There’s a spectrum of biological weapons,” some of which are very lethal while others less so, Sellin explained. According to Chinese military doctrine, biological weapons, which are highly infectious but with low lethality, can be used in pre-war conditions “to debilitate a society or to debilitate another military.”
The COVID-19 virus is a prototypical biological weapon that China has been trying to develop since 2004, Sellin said.
Chinese military documents also state “that these weapons should be designed, such that you have plausible deniability, that the presence of these viruses can be blamed on nature,” he said. “That’s the whole story of the COVID-19 virus. ... The research that China’s doing, even the publicly available research, points back to a biological warfare program.”
Regardless of whether its release was accidental or intentional, it debilitated the United States economy for two years, and caused enormous disruption and social discord in the country, Sellin said. The country is weakened, which “allows China to take advantage of the situation in a war-like state,” he added.
‘Recipe for COVID-19’ Funded by American Taxpayers
He said that the description of proposed research in that application “reads like a recipe for creating COVID-19.”
“Gain of function research is defined as when a naturally-occurring virus is genetically or otherwise manipulated to make it either more contagious, more lethal, or both.”
Sellin said that he considers the 2018 research application the “smoking gun” of the laboratory origin of the COVID-19 virus because the experiments described in the application include the insertion of a furin protease cleavage site into new viruses that would be created in these experiments.
This furin protease cleavage site does not exist in any virus from which the COVID-19 virus could have evolved, Sellin said. “It is unnatural insertion into COVID-19.”
The furin protease cleavage site is a very small structure in the virus that facilitates its infectivity and lethality, Sellin explained.