Referring to an article in The Washington Times, this piece introduces the view of Israeli biological warfare expert Dany Shoham, who pointed to a link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and China’s covert biological weapons program. It discusses Gao Fu’s claim that the virus originated from wild animals sold at a Wuhan seafood market, and the issue of advanced virus research laboratories located in Wuhan.

April 1, 2020
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told media controlled by the Chinese authorities that, as of Thursday, the virus had originated from wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.
The following is an article I discovered on the internet just now.
https://www.lincscience.com/blog/2-virus-hit-wuhan-has-two-laboratories-linked-tochinese-bio-warfare-program
After reading this article, it is no exaggeration at all to say that media such as NHK are not made by journalists.
That is because, ever since the outbreak occurred in Wuhan, NHK has not reported these facts even once.
In Wuhan, struck by the coronavirus, there exist two laboratories linked to China’s biological warfare program……
Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program.
Date: January 24, 2020
Source: The Washington Times
Summary:
The deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China’s covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert.
Date of publication: January 24, 2020
Source: The Washington Times, online edition.
Summary:
An Israeli biological warfare expert has pointed out that the deadly animal virus spreading across the world may have originated from a Wuhan laboratory linked to China’s covert biological weapons program.
Radio Free Asia this week rebroadcast a local Wuhan television report from 2015 showing China’s most advanced virus research laboratory, known as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Radio Free Asia reported.
The laboratory is the only declared site in China capable of working with deadly viruses.
Radio Free Asia, a shortwave radio broadcaster established in 1996 with funding from the U.S. Congress under the International Broadcasting Act enacted by the United States Congress in 1994, this week rebroadcast a 2015 local Wuhan television report introducing the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s most advanced virus research laboratory.
This laboratory is the only publicly declared site in China equipped to conduct research on deadly viruses.
Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese bio-warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing’s covert biological weapons program.
Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer with experience studying China’s biological weapons, stated that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is linked to Beijing’s covert biological weapons program.
“Certain laboratories in the institute have probably been engaged, in terms of research and development, in Chinese biological weapons at least collaterally, yet not as a principal facility of the Chinese Biological Weapon alignment,” Mr. Shoham told The Washington Times.
“Certain laboratories within the institute have probably been engaged, at least collaterally, in the research and development of Chinese biological weapons, although they are not thought to have become the principal facility aligned with China’s biological weapons program,” Shoham told The Washington Times.
Work on biological weapons is conducted as a part of dual civilian-military research and is “definitely covert,” he said in an e-mail.
In an e-mail, Shoham replied that this research and development related to biological weapons, carried out as joint military-civilian research, is “definitely covert.”
Mr. Shoham holds a doctorate in medical microbiology.
From 1970 to 1991, he was a senior analyst with Israeli military intelligence for biological and chemical warfare in the Middle East and worldwide, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Shoham holds a doctorate in medical microbiology, and from 1970 to 1991 he served as a senior analyst in Israeli military intelligence, conducting advanced analysis of biological and chemical weapons not only in the Middle East but throughout the world, and held the rank of lieutenant colonel.
China in the past has denied having any offensive biological weapons.
The State Department, in a report last year, said it suspects China has engaged in covert biological warfare work.
China has until now continued to deny possessing any offensive biological weapons.
However, a report by the U.S. State Department last year stated that it suspects China has been engaged in covert biological warfare work.
A Chinese Embassy spokesman did not return an e-mail seeking comment.
An e-mail seeking comment was sent to a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy, but no response was received.
Chinese authorities so far have said the origin of the coronavirus that has killed scores and infected hundreds in central Hubei Province is not known.
Chinese authorities have so far stated that they do not know the origin of the coronavirus that has killed many people and infected hundreds in central Hubei Province.
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state-controlled media initial signs as of Thursday indicated the virus originated from wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told media controlled by the Chinese authorities that, as of Thursday, initial signs indicated that the virus had originated from wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.
To be continued.
＊Emphasis in the text is mine.