According to an ex-MI6 chief, Britain’s science sector was compromised by the’malign Chinese communist influences’.
Sir Richard Dearlove, head of the intelligence service from 1999 to 2004, believes many universities in the UK have become dependent on Chinese funding over the past two decades.
While urging institutions to take ‘greater steps to protect intellectual property’, he expressed concern over the extent to which Britain echoed a potential ‘information’ campaign from China following the coronavirus outbreak in December 2019.
China has raised concerns about a virus that was circulating in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
Wuhan Institute of Virology is a high-security laboratory that specializes in controlling dangerous coronaviruses.
Sir Richard Dearlove, 76 (pictured above), is the head of MI6 between 1999 and 2004, believing that many UK universities have been dependent on Chinese funds over the last two decades.
Wuhan Institute of Virology, which specialises is manipulating dangerous coronaviruses (WIV), was the high-security laboratory that was at the center of an alleged cover up. (pictured: a virologist with her colleague in WIV’s P4 lab in February 2017).
Sir Richard (76) said in a podcast that he would take more steps to ensure intellectual property protection in universities in sensitive areas, especially in the area of sensitive research.
He added: ‘I’m pretty sure that the Chinese after the outbreak in Wuhan, and they’re very good at doing this, sat down and developed their own information campaign and this was almost certainly driven by the Ministry of State Security and run out of the PRC leadership to make sure that there was suppression of any suggestion that their narrative was not the correct one,’ Sir Richard said in the podcast.
“The West’s complicity in this is what concerns me.
An ex-Cold War spy spoke previously about his investigation into the cause of the pandemic.
One time, Covid said Covid showed all signs of “taking a natural viral and messing about with it”.
Sharri Markson (Australian journalist) said that her 18-month investigations into the “lab leak” hypothesis had left her with ‘beyond doubts’ about the possibility of the virus spreading from a biomedical center.
She called for the stopping of ‘gain-of-function’ research or greater oversight at Chinese labs to prevent future pandemics.
Risky experiments include engineering viruses to be more deadly or infectious in order to develop vaccines and treatments to prevent future outbreaks.
China repeatedly claimed that Covid spread naturally from bats to human beings. However, some scientists now believe Covid may have had natural causes.
The communist Government has blocked independent investigations to determine how the virus got into humans at epicentre Wuhan.
Sharri Markson, an Australian journalist, stated that she was unable to believe the fact that the virus leaked out of a biomedical center after her 18 month investigation.
China first alerted the international community to a mystery virus in Wuhan during December 2019 (pictured at WIV’s laboratory P4). Since then, there has been much debate about its source.
The government has shut down journalists and wiped out scientific databases. WIV employees who contracted a mysterious illness in autumn 2019 were also wiped.
Mike Pompeo was the former US Secretary-of-State under President Trump. He said that intelligence regarding the origins and evolution of Covid indicated the Wuhan laboratory as the “centre point”.
Speaking to Markson in a documentary, Pompeo said: ‘There is enormous – albeit indirect – evidence that the WIV was the centre point for this.
Remember that at this point, there were fourteen American diplomats present in Wuhan. [late 2019]Watching and being attentive to what was happening on the ground.
“I really hope that one day, we will be able get that information out to more people but… the cumulative evidence… points singlely to WIV.