In January 2020, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would donate $10 million to contain the spread of the coronavirus in China and Africa.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation closely cooperated with Beijing to enable the sale of Chinese-produced medications outside China, new emails have revealed.
The documents, recently released from the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Dr Anthony Fauci, were obtained by the American activist group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The emails contain a 5 September 2017 report by Ping Chen, an NIAID representative in China, who told her colleagues she attended a Gates Foundation meeting that “initially planned to talk about global malaria eradication efforts”.
She mentioned the Gates Foundation providing funding for China’s National Medical Products Administration, previously known as China’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to appoint experienced Chinese-Americans who had worked at the US FDA to work in the Chinese agency.
Ping also claimed that the Gates Foundation “is working with the Chinese government” to promote Beijing’s medical clout in countries, including those in Africa.
The past few years have seen China expand its clout in Africa, with the US-based think tank Heritage Foundation claiming in a report last year that “Beijing likely has better surveillance access to Africa than anywhere else by having built or renovated at least 186 African government buildings”.
Workers are seen next to a cage with mice (R) inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China’s Hubei province, on February 23, 2017
Separately in the email, Ping referred to a meeting with a group from the Global Virome Project (GVP), which aims to tackle “high impact viral epidemics and pandemics” and is partially funded by USAID [United States Agency for International Development].
Ping was apparently referring to WIV Deputy Director Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese virologist, who was dubbed “Bat Woman” by the Chinese media for her consistent work with bat coronaviruses and included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Shortly after the emails were released by NIAID, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton demanded that the Gates Foundation “explain the government report about its assistance to and advocacy for China”. The organisation has yet to comment on the matter.
China Slams US Intel Report on COVID Origins
The emails come after the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, bashed a newly released US intelligence report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the document does not have scientific credibility and incorrectly suggests that Beijing is hindering a global investigation into the origins of the deadly outbreak.
Beijing has repeatedly rejected Washington’s allegations that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, warning the White House not to politicise the issue. China also often refers to theories suggesting the coronavirus leaked from the US Army’s Fort Detrick base in Maryland, in 2019, insisting that Washington should invite World Health Organisation (WHO) experts to investigate Fort Detrick.
Late March saw the release of a WHO report that argued it is “extremely unlikely” the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan bio lab. China recently rejected the WHO’s call “to work together” on the UN body’s second probe into the origins of COVID, insisting that the first probe was sufficient and that Beijing prefers scientific to political efforts to find out how “the worst pandemic in a century” started.
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