This article examines the timeline of events in China from August through November 2019, including the start of vaccine development, an infectious-disease simulation exercise in Wuhan, the Military World Games, and quarantine measures at a naval university. Drawing on an article by Dr. Lin Ken-ryo, it also discusses the alleged power struggle between the Jiang Zemin and Xi Jinping factions over the Wuhan Institute of Virology, questions concerning the credibility of Chinese research papers, and information reportedly leaked from inside the institute.

August 28, 2020
On the day the Republican National Convention was held, President Trump announced two major points at a press conference. The most important of the two was broadcast on every news program I watched except Watch 9.
“We will certainly hold China accountable for spreading the virus.”
I felt enormously relieved. People throughout the world who saw this report must have felt the same way.
I have continued publishing this column on goo and Ameba, and I took pride in the fact that the chapter most frequently found through searches on goo was titled, “What Was Combined with the Coronavirus to Create the Novel Virus? She Must Also Have Confirmed How It Would Mutate…She Must Disclose the Entire Process by Which It Was Created…Shi Zhengli, That Is Your Duty as a Human Being.”
I wrote that chapter with 100 percent conviction because my conviction was supported by a powerful intuition derived from genuine articles and other work by Keiko Kawasoe, a rising journalist.
An article titled “The Wuhan Coronavirus Is Far Too Convenient for Xi Jinping,” written by physician, commentator, and political activist Lin Ken-ryo, who leads the major special feature “Fight Back Against Xi Jinping!” in the monthly magazine Hanada released yesterday, further strengthened my conviction.
It is an article that must be read not only by the Japanese people but by people throughout the world.
In Japan today, NHK and others—probably with the Asahi Shimbun leading the way—are using expressions such as “with corona.”
There was also a Kyoto University professor who graduated from Kagoshima University and who declared that the Wuhan virus had occurred naturally in an NHK special program presented with Professor Yamanaka as its principal host.
If people read the genuine article by Lin Ken-ryo reproduced below, they should recognize, with a sense of horror, the reality that these people are siding with China and reporting for China’s benefit.
They will also be horrified by what an outrageous country China truly is.
The Institute Is a Stronghold of Jiang Mianheng
In terms of timing, there are other events that deserve attention.
On September 18 of last year, a “simulation exercise” premised on the outbreak of a coronavirus infection was conducted in Wuhan itself.
The exercise assumed that a virus had been brought into the city and included such measures as disinfecting the entirety of Wuhan Airport and determining how to separate clean zones from contaminated zones—the very measures that countries throughout the world were subsequently compelled to implement after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Relating this to what I have just discussed, this was immediately after CanSino began developing its vaccine.
One month later, on October 18, the Military World Games were held in Wuhan, with 9,308 military personnel from 109 countries participating.
As the name suggests, this is an event held once every four years in which military personnel from around the world gather in one place to compete in sports.
Of course, Wuhan may simply have happened to be selected as the host city on this occasion, but the Chinese authorities used the event.
In other words, amid the intense dispute between the United States and China over the origin of the virus, the real intention behind Chinese Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Zhao Lijian’s claim on Twitter that “the U.S. military may have brought the virus to Wuhan” was to suggest that the U.S. military had brought it to the city during these games.
There is also information that, in November, the naval university in Wuhan urgently instituted a quarantine system.
It prohibited outsiders from entering or leaving, and everyone entering the university was subjected to quarantine screening.
Because it is a military academy, it would not necessarily be unusual for such measures to be taken. Nevertheless, when we examine the events of August, September, and October, it appears that the Chinese government could only have “known what was going to happen afterward.”
Beyond this chronology, one more point that must not be overlooked is the power struggle within the Chinese government.
In China, medical and healthcare affairs are said to be controlled entirely by the Jiang Zemin faction, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology is said to be a stronghold of Jiang Zemin’s son, Jiang Mianheng.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is a P4 laboratory capable of handling viruses at the highest level of danger, and only a small number of laboratories at this level exist anywhere in the world.
The director of such a highly advanced institute is a 39-year-old woman named Wang Yanyi, but she has neither research experience nor a record of accomplishment.
It is said that she was appointed director because her husband, Shu Hongbing, has close ties to Jiang Mianheng.
It is believed that, as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Xi Jinping succeeded in sending the military into this stronghold of the Jiang Zemin faction—which he had previously been unable to penetrate—and finally bringing it under his control.
The fact that Chen Wei, a member of the Xi Jinping faction, was placed in charge of vaccine development can also be understood as an effort to penetrate the medical establishment controlled by the Jiang Zemin faction.
In other words, we must not forget that China’s actions in this case contain abundant elements of a power struggle in addition to questions of medicine and biology.
Untrustworthy Chinese Research Papers
To begin with, a great deal of research and many papers originating in China are untrustworthy.
Dr. Elisabeth Bik, who studied microorganisms at Stanford University and now works as a scientific consultant, and others published online a list of more than 400 papers containing “unnatural features.”
Most of the authors were physicians affiliated with municipal hospitals or university hospitals in China, and the papers had been published in prominent academic journals.
It was discovered that 121 of those papers used the same images.
This fact alone clearly demonstrates how careless some papers originating in China can be.
Retractions of this kind also occurred in connection with papers concerning the Wuhan coronavirus.
On May 22, a Chinese researcher published a paper in the medical journal The Lancet.
Whether hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, was effective against the Wuhan coronavirus had become a subject of worldwide attention and debate. The paper reported research findings claiming that the drug “increased the risk of cardiac arrhythmias and death among patients” and, rather than being effective against the novel coronavirus, was harmful.
Medical institutions throughout the world reacted immediately to these findings by suspending clinical trials and recommending that the drug not be used for treatment, thereby stopping the prescription of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus treatment.
The credibility of the data used in the research was subsequently called into question. On June 2, The Lancet itself issued a statement expressing doubts, and two days later the paper was retracted.
Even so, why are papers of this kind published in leading medical journals such as The Lancet and Nature?
Put simply, it is because many such research institutions and journals have already been contaminated by Chinese money.
They receive research funding from China; they receive bribes disguised as lecture fees….
It is already widely known that the WHO and China have an extremely close relationship, but in fact research institutions have also fallen into such a condition.
Inside Information Continues to Emerge
Under these circumstances, various kinds of information have been flowing from inside the institute to the outside world.
For example, the identification card of Chen Quanjiao, a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher who was said to have accused Shi Zhengli by name, appeared online. There were also allegations, accompanied by an identification card, that a female researcher named Huang Yanling, who had belonged to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, became infected and died after a virus leak during laboratory research.
Regardless of whether the information itself is true, the identification cards are genuine.
This alone indicates that the information came from someone inside.
In other words, conflict resembling the power struggle described earlier is also taking place within the institute.
More recently, Yan Limeng, a virology specialist at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, defected from Hong Kong to the United States and appeared on FOX News.
She attracted attention by stating that a friend at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention had told her that the Chinese authorities knew by December 31 that clusters of “human-to-human” transmission were occurring.
Yan Limeng was not the only researcher to defect; several other researchers also defected, but she was the only one to appear publicly.
Moreover, she defected on April 28 but did not make her allegations until July, two and a half months later.
Frankly speaking, the content of her allegation was not particularly significant.
As noted earlier, the South China Morning Post had already reported on “human-to-human transmission” in March. However, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo has asserted that he possesses significant evidence that the Wuhan coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and it appears possible that further major developments will occur.
To be continued.