This article examines the alleged Nanputuo Plan, artificial virus research associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the close relationship between France and China surrounding the construction of its P4 laboratory. Drawing on a discussion between Keiko Kawasoe and Sun Shangwen, it explores claims involving biological weapons research, China’s Thousand Talents Plan, and the political and commercial interests behind Sino-French scientific cooperation.

June 24, 2020
“If some kind of mistake occurred, or if this virus escaped and infected humans, it is conceivable that it could cause between 100,000 and 100 million deaths.”
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Secret Plan to Manufacture the “Wuhan Virus”
Kawasoe
What has attracted my attention is the so-called “Shipwreck Plan,” which was reportedly devised in secret by senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.
The name of the extermination plan is written as the “Nanputuo Plan.”
Nanputuo is the name of a place, and the story is that only a limited group of people gathered there and devised a plan to manufacture the “Wuhan virus.”
Whether this information is true is another matter.
The alleged purposes for manufacturing and using the “Wuhan virus” included controlling an excessively large population, launching biological warfare against the United States, and weakening the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative so that China could place them under its control.
Sun
It is a terrifying plan.
Kawasoe
This information appeared in a February 20, 2020 article published by G-News, an organization involving Guo Wengui, the billionaire who fled to New York.
Mr. Guo appears to have a close relationship with Steve Bannon, who served as President Trump’s chief strategist and senior adviser.
According to an organizational chart published in the article, it included the names of Jiang Zemin, his eldest son Jiang Mianheng, Jiang Mianheng’s son Jiang Zhicheng, who is Jiang Zemin’s direct grandson, as well as President Xi Jinping and Vice President Wang Qishan.
The operational unit was said to consist of Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun and former Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu.
By a curious coincidence, the two men were arrested in April and May.
Sun
What they are doing is exactly the same as Aum Shinrikyo!
Mr. Bannon has said, “I met a researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who had defected from China and was given more than 1,000 pages of documents.”
He also said that the researcher was scheduled to appear on Mr. Bannon’s program.
I am intensely curious to know who this person is.
Kawasoe
Anti-Communist media initially reported extensively that the defector was Shi Zhengli, a senior researcher at the institute.
They also claimed that her family had defected.
However, I did not think the Chinese authorities would allow the entire family to escape.
Sun
Even if Shi Zhengli herself managed to escape, it would be difficult for her entire family to do so.
In 2013, a research team including Shi Zhengli artificially modified two viruses, the H5N1 avian influenza virus and the H1N1 novel influenza virus, and created a new virus capable of human-to-human transmission.
Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson, a leading virologist at France’s Pasteur Institute, warned, “We do not know what effect the hybrid virus being created by the Chinese team would have on humans,” and, “If some kind of mistake occurred, or if this virus escaped and infected humans, it is conceivable that it could cause between 100,000 and 100 million deaths.”
In 2015, Shi and her fellow researchers announced in the journal Nature that they had succeeded in an experiment involving the fusion of a coronavirus with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, ACE2, found in human cells.
In 2019, an article appeared in the open-access scientific journal MDPI, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, whose contents seemed almost to predict that “a coronavirus originating in bats would make China the most likely epicenter.”
Kawasoe
When China completed a virus research institute equipped with a P4 laboratory in Wuhan’s Jiangxia District in cooperation with France, it released photographs of the interior, and Shi Zhengli was prominently featured in those photographs.
Sun
Along with Shi, researcher Zhou Peng was also a central member of the research team.
Kawasoe
The Five Eyes intelligence network, comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, and three other English-speaking countries, announced that it was investigating the two researchers.
Both had studied in Australia, and the Australian intelligence agencies have probably already investigated whom they contacted while they were there.
Sun
I look forward to the results of the Five Eyes investigation.
The “Darkness” Shared by France and China
Kawasoe
As the Thousand Talents Plan demonstrates, Chinese scientists are ultimately no more than pieces used by the Chinese Communist Party government.
Rather than simply attacking the scientists, we need to look at the plan from a broader perspective and ask which organization was directing them and for what purpose.
It is almost certain that the Chinese Communist Party has devoted itself for many years to the research and development of biological, chemical, and toxin weapons.
Dr. Anthony Tu, also known as Tu Tsu-Chih, professor emeritus at Colorado State University, stated, “A P4-level facility would have virtually no purpose other than the development of biological weapons,” and, “The Chinese government says, ‘It has absolutely nothing to do with biological weapons—that is a lie,’ but naturally it would never openly say, ‘We are making them.’”
While stealing this kind of information and technology from the United States and competing with it, China also completed the Wuhan virus research institute on the basis of capital and personnel exchanges involving the France-China Foundation.
It is certain that the central figure on the French side of this project was Alain Mérieux, president of the bioMérieux Group and chairman of the Mérieux Foundation.
Among politicians, the central figure was probably former President Nicolas Sarkozy.
France had prohibited the transfer to China of cutting-edge technologies that could contribute to military expansion, citing national security concerns, but it changed the direction of its China policy during Sarkozy’s presidency.
One cannot help wondering whether certain interests in both countries had been sharing the profits from Sino-French military interests.
Sun
It is a matter of vested interests in the purest sense.
Kawasoe
France invested enormous sums of money in completing, jointly with China, a virus research institute that included a P4 laboratory.
The facility appears to be a treasure house of cutting-edge military technology so sensitive that it would normally be treated as a state secret and never allowed to leave the country.
French author and magazine journalist Antoine Izambard wrote, “In terms of the sealing of certain components, the P4 laboratory is comparable to that of our country’s nuclear submarines.”
However, French media outlets, including Le Figaro, reported, “The French researchers who were supposed to be sent there have not been allowed to set foot inside.”
The implication is that the Chinese side excluded France and proceeded out of control on its own.
Sun
France is also making strained excuses.
Kawasoe
Both China and France appear to have their own “darkness.”
In December 2018, the Chinese government presented the China Reform Friendship Medal to 10 foreign nationals during a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing commemorating the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up policy.
Chairman Mérieux was selected as one of only 10 recipients in the world.
Because the recipients included people who had already died, such as Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita, only four people stood on the stage at the Great Hall of the People.
They included Chairman Mérieux and Klaus Schwab, the German founder of the World Economic Forum, which organizes the Davos conference.
According to Chinese state-controlled media, Chairman Mérieux was honored as “a pioneer who devoted himself to the development of China’s medical and public-health services and its cooperation with foreign countries. He first visited China in 1978 and initiated broad and lasting cooperation in tuberculosis prevention, infection control, and protection against infectious diseases. He established manufacturing and research-and-development bases and high-level biosafety laboratories in China, thereby raising the standard of Chinese research.”
It is clear that he had maintained an extremely close relationship with China over many years.
To be continued.