What lies behind the repeated emergence of avian influenza, SARS, and the Wuhan fever in China?
Based on an essay by Aoyama Shigeharu, this article examines the WHO director-general election, the long tenure of Margaret Chan, and the policy of not naming infectious diseases after regions, revealing the reality of Chinese Communist Party influence over international organizations.

March 13, 2020
There was a strong view that Japan, which does not rely on secret funds, had been defeated by China, which does not choose its means.
China then kept this Director-General Chan in office for ten and a half years, until the middle of 2017.

The following is a continuation of an essay by Aoyama Shigeharu, a member of the House of Councillors, writer, visiting professor at Kindai University, and lecturer at the Free Research Seminar of the University of Tokyo, published in the monthly magazine Hanada, which is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world.
I send this article to people all over the world to tell them about China’s malicious schemes.

The Beginning of Human Science

In this issue of my modest serial column, although space is limited, I would like to think together with everyone, as much as possible, from the very roots.
Even now that I have become a Diet member, I, unworthy as I am, still teach at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo and at the Faculty of Economics of Kindai University.
At Kindai University, I cannot find the time to go to the Higashi-Osaka campus, and my teaching has become limited to special lectures twice a year, which I regret, but at the University of Tokyo I hold a seminar every week.
In the spring, when I open the seminar, there is something I teach first.
It is the beginning of human science.
Human beings opened up science by classifying everything in the world, by dividing things and thinking about them.
However, there is one thing that cannot be classified.
That is the virus.
If one thinks it is non-living because it has no cells and no metabolism, it has genes and mutates by itself.
It may be called a non-living thing somewhat close to living things, but the point is that human science cannot classify it and cannot fully clarify its true nature.
From the body of a virus, many things like spikes protrude, and it hooks, so to speak, onto other living organisms, inserts its own genes, and uses that cell as a host to increase copies of itself.
However, it cannot multiply on its own.
And by mutating those spikes, it becomes able to infect things it could not infect before.
Therefore, for example, even the extremely toxic virus of highly pathogenic avian influenza at first spread only from bird to bird, but eventually spread from bird to human, and then from human to human, producing deaths.
This, too, happened in China.
In China, in May 2005, a mass death of migratory birds due to avian influenza occurred, and in October of that year, a young woman died from avian influenza infection.
In 2007, infection from a child in Nanjing to the father, that is, human-to-human infection, was confirmed, and the child died.
Six years after that, two deaths from avian influenza were confirmed in Shanghai and elsewhere, but after that, information ceased to emerge.
If this meant the eradication of avian influenza, it would be fortunate, but as far as I know, there is no expert who thinks so.
Rather, it is common knowledge that it has become easier to infect humans after passing once from birds through pigs.
And yet, why does no information come out?

The Chinese Control of the WHO

In November 2006, that is, in the midst of avian influenza raging in China, China put forward Margaret Chan, also known as Chan Fung Fu-chun, a Hong Kong-born female doctor, in the election for Director-General of the WHO, the World Health Organization.
During her time as Director of Health in Hong Kong, Ms. Chan was criticized as being at the beck and call of the Chinese Communist Party.
During the SARS outbreak, hospital closures and other measures were delayed, and she was even summoned by the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
However, in the aforementioned WHO Director-General election, the Chinese Communist Party had her narrowly defeat Shigeru Omi, then Regional Director of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, who was supported by Japan and others, and had her elected.
There was a strong view that Japan, which does not rely on secret funds, had been defeated by China, which does not choose its means, but China then kept this Director-General Chan in office for ten and a half years, until the middle of 2017, and furthermore had the succeeding Director-General elected from Ethiopia, a country indebted to China, bringing the Chinese control of the WHO to an extreme state.
During her term, Director-General Chan decided in 2015 on the present policy of “not attaching regional names to infectious diseases.”
Then what is to be done about the many infectious disease names, including Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which bears the name of a river in Africa, and Marburg fever, which directly uses the name of Marburg, a German university city?
Director-General Chan, the WHO, and China show absolutely no interest in that.
They do not try to change those names.
I am only a humble specialist whose creed is not to take a cynical view, but regarding this matter, I cannot help suspecting that China, anticipating or fearing that a new infectious disease would one day appear with its own country as the source, used the WHO in order to prepare for that risk and created in advance, under the pretext of preventing discrimination and prejudice, the policy that regional names should not be used as the names of infectious diseases.
At the very least, if the aforementioned Shigeru Omi, who enjoys deep trust around the world, had been elected Director-General of the WHO, he either would not have put forward a policy that makes it impossible to know the source in this way, or, if he had decided on such a policy, he would naturally have made efforts to change names such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
When they learned that a new virus had emerged from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, the source of the Wuhan fever, there must have been many specialists around the world who felt, “Ah, just as expected.”
Why?
This article continues.