Referring to a Monthly WiLL dialogue between Keiko Kawasoe and Sun Xiangwen, this article discusses the artificial-origin theory of the Wuhan virus, the Wuhan P4 laboratory, Shi Zhengli, its possible connection with the People’s Liberation Army, and the Japanese media’s taboo-like silence out of deference to China.

March 30, 2020
Across the world, the view that it is an “artificial virus” is overwhelming, and expressions such as “biological weapon” are flying about.
Yet Japan, out of deference to China’s wishes, treats this discussion as a complete taboo.
The following is from a special dialogue between Keiko Kawasoe and Sun Xiangwen, published in this month’s issue of the must-read magazine Monthly WiLL under the title “A Women’s Battle over the Artificial-Origin Theory of the Wuhan Virus.”
It is no exaggeration at all to say that people who merely subscribe to newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and watch television media such as NHK understand absolutely nothing about the truth of things.
There is surely nothing more comical and tragic than people who understand nothing pretending to be wise and talking as if they know everything.
What are the suspicions, emerging one after another, about the “artificial weapon theory” of the novel coronavirus? The natural-origin theory is not the mainstream view in the world.
Kawasoe
Regarding the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, the Japanese media report on the premise that it is a “natural virus.”
However, across the world, the view that it is an “artificial virus” is overwhelming, and expressions such as “biological weapon” are flying about.
Yet Japan, out of deference to China’s wishes, treats this discussion as a complete taboo.
Sun
The Chinese government has consistently claimed that the source was bats being sold at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.
However, I believe that the theory regarded in Japan as a “conspiracy theory” — that it leaked from the Wuhan P4 laboratory — is correct.
“P4” is an abbreviation for “Protection Level 4.”
The number indicates the danger level of the viruses handled there.
Kawasoe
In January 2018, a “P4” laboratory was opened within the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
It is an institution for researching the most toxic viruses, such as Ebola virus and SARS virus, which fall under “BSL, Biosafety Level, 4.”
Sun
In fact, the other day, Wu Xiaohua, an active researcher at the Wuhan P4 laboratory, made a whistleblowing post on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, saying that “at the Wuhan P4 laboratory, experiments are being conducted to edit artificial viruses that do not exist in nature and are not born from mutation.”
According to Mr. Wu, the person who created the novel coronavirus was a researcher named Shi Zhengli, who also belongs to the Wuhan P4 laboratory.
In 2015, in the British scientific journal Nature, she published a paper whose subject was, in effect, “how a coronavirus extracted from bats could be transmitted to humans.”
Kawasoe
A battle between women, then. (laughs)
Sun
In 2018, she even gave a lecture in China on “extracting coronavirus from bats and researching new types of coronavirus.”
I myself looked through Shi’s paper that Mr. Wu had posted on Weibo, but while I was reading it, it was suddenly deleted.
Fortunately, one Chinese person had reposted the entire text, so I was able to save it.
Kawasoe
From that deletion, one can strongly feel the Chinese authorities’ firm will: “We do not want this to be seen.”
Sun
The content of the paper was that, because the genetic codes of bats and humans differ, it is biologically impossible for coronavirus to be transmitted directly from bats to humans.
Therefore, at least two types of intermediate hosts, serving as a “bridge,” are necessary; by repeatedly applying artificial editing to the virus extracted from bats — from bats to dogs, from dogs to monkeys, and then from monkeys, which are primates like humans, to humans — such transmission became possible.
Moreover, in Mr. Wu’s whistleblowing statement, he even says, “It is so simple that any trainee at the Wuhan P4 laboratory can do it. Anyone who cannot do it cannot graduate.”
Kawasoe
There has also been a report attracting attention that Major General Chen Wei, who after graduating from Zhejiang University joined the People’s Liberation Army and studied Ebola virus in Africa, was chosen as the person in charge of the Wuhan P4 laboratory.
She, too, is a woman.
Sun
On March 5, it was reported that Major General Chen received a vaccine said to have been completed in China and entered the Wuhan P4 laboratory.
At that time, Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of China’s State Council, was also seated beside her, confirming that Chen was vaccinated.
Why, at this timing, was the head of the People’s Liberation Army’s biological and chemical weapons unit dispatched to the Wuhan P4 laboratory?
Her appointment as the person in charge is plainly unnatural.
Does this not suggest, after all, a high possibility that it was a biological weapon?
Kawasoe
Several Chinese-language media outlets have reported that the Wuhan P4 laboratory is under the jurisdiction of China’s Ministry of National Defense, and that is probably true.
The reason is that, for specialists around the world in biological and chemical weapons and toxic substances, BSL4-level research means, in effect, research that leads to biological weapons and chemical weapons.
Taiwanese media focused on the existence of the Wuhan P4 laboratory from very early on.
Some American media did the same.
And Taiwanese experts and commentators have expressed views such as, “If the Chinese government intended to help the residents of Wuhan, the first people it should have dispatched to the site would have been medical personnel,” and “The reason the People’s Liberation Army’s Chen was dispatched must be that a prototype biological weapon leaked from this Wuhan P4 laboratory.”
To be continued.