Referring to a Monthly WiLL dialogue between Keiko Kawasoe and Sun Xiangwen, this article examines the suspicious speed of China’s alleged vaccine development, possible involvement of the Academy of Military Sciences and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the remdesivir patent issue, Japan’s media-driven acceptance of China’s information manipulation, and questions surrounding a Lancet article.

March 30, 2020
At the very bottom of the label on that bottle were, astonishingly, the words “Academy of Military Sciences and Academy of Military Medical Sciences.” (laughs)
When the Chinese media reported on it, they deliberately hid the lower part of the label.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Too-rapid vaccine development.
Sun
The other day, a photograph was leaked of a bottle said to contain a vaccine developed by China.
At the very bottom of the label on that bottle were, astonishingly, the words “Academy of Military Sciences and Academy of Military Medical Sciences.” (laughs)
The name of a private pharmaceutical company also appears as the manufacturer, but that is only at the level of development cooperation.
When the Chinese media reported on it, they deliberately hid the lower part of the label.
Kawasoe
By hiding it, they are in effect saying, “This is the real manufacturer,” aren’t they? (laughs)
Sun
What is strange is the speed of vaccine development.
The National Health Commission of China, China’s equivalent of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, officially announced the outbreak of the novel coronavirus on January 8, while the manufacturing date on the leaked vaccine was February 26.
There is no way a vaccine for a new virus could be commercialized in only about one month.
Normally, in vaccine development, animal testing alone takes more than six months, and when clinical trials and data collection are included, common sense in vaccine development says it takes at least one to two years.
On the very day America announced that it would “succeed in vaccine development” and “enter the stage of clinical trials from now on,” China announced that it had “succeeded in vaccine development.”
Even now, the novel coronavirus remains full of mysteries, yet why were only America and China able to begin vaccine development so quickly?
I suspect that America had already begun development in 2015, when researcher Shi Zhengli published her paper in Nature.
Kawasoe
I presume that major powers other than Japan, such as Britain, Russia, and Canada, also knew of the existence of the paper and had made various preparations.
Australia, too, reported very early on, if I recall correctly, that a vaccine could be commercialized in about six months.
Sun
What I am paying attention to is that, on January 20, the very same day an American pharmaceutical company announced the new drug remdesivir for treating patients with Wuhan pneumonia, China followed suit and announced that it had obtained a domestic patent and completed it.
Had America not said anything, China would likely have remained silent.
In the end, even when a disaster involving the whole world occurs, the only thing the Chinese government thinks about is “money.”
Kawasoe
Those in power can remain in power only by turning things into money.
To them, human life is lighter than a bird’s feather.
Japan riding on China’s information manipulation.
Kawasoe
Global reporting on the novel coronavirus should be an opportunity for Japan to wake up, but the structure is such that the mass media are concealing it.
The same is true of politicians.
One wonders where they are looking as they do their work.
Sun
Chinese media are shifting the subject and manipulating impressions by saying, “Many people in America are dying of influenza. Why report only on the novel coronavirus?”
After such reporting became noticeable, I feel that Japanese television and media, too, began increasingly to compare it with influenza, or to say that “the novel coronavirus is not very different from influenza.”
To me, it seems only that China is skillfully using the Japanese media as one of its propaganda tools, trying to instill its own claims into the Japanese people.
Kawasoe
And in many cases, thinking stops at suspicious information such as “a natural coronavirus” or “it originated from Chinese people eating bats.”
Sun
The reason the Japanese media do not report the truth is probably the strong influence of sponsors.
In February, a paper was published in the British journal The Lancet under the joint names of 27 “self-proclaimed” biologists.
Its conclusion was that “the novel coronavirus occurred naturally” and that “the claim it was artificially edited is nonsense and a conspiracy theory.”
Then, all at once, Japanese mass media, including NHK, began reporting it in unison.
Kawasoe
Since I have not properly read the original text published in The Lancet, I will refrain from commenting in detail, but I thought it might be a paper by researchers moved by Chinese money, or by researchers who wanted to ask for more of it.
To begin with, if 27 people are made to be involved, responsibility can be evaded even if the content is mere fabrication.
If they were truly capable scholars, there would be no need for several dozen people to write it.
After all, the credit would not become one’s own.
To be continued.