A leaked intelligence report from DHS reveals that the Trump administration believes that China intentionally concealed the coronavirus from the World Health Organization in order to stockpile medical supplies that they would need to fight the outbreak:
YAHOO NEWS – Amid a concerted push to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration has issued an intelligence analysis claiming China purposely delayed notifying the World Health Organization about the spread of the contagion in order to stockpile medical equipment, according to two recent government documents obtained by Yahoo News.
“Amid a concerted push to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic…” – Don’t you love the way this article by Jana Winter and Sharon Weinberger starts? Good grief. It beings sounding as though it were written by the Chicoms themselves.
The analysis, which some former officials and experts are questioning based on its limited methodology, relies exclusively on trade data to draw its conclusions.
The biased article already cites ‘experts’ questioning the conclusions by the Trump administration, before even explaining them.
In recent weeks, President Trump and some of his top allies have been pushing a theory being investigated by the intelligence community that the virus originated from a Chinese lab in Wuhan, rather than from a “wet market,” where exotic wildlife is sold. “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview with ABC on Sunday.
“Pushing a theory”? Every paragraph so far bleeds with bias!
Just two days before that interview, analysts at the Department of Homeland Security citing a “new analytic technique” concluded that China had, in fact, concealed the spread of the coronavirus in order to hoard medical supplies. Specifically, they looked at Chinese imports and exports of medical equipment, ranging from surgical face masks to ventilators, from October 2019 to February 2020, and then compared that data with statistics from the prior five years.
“We assess the Chinese Government intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 from the international community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies by both increasing imports and decreasing exports,” the analysts wrote in the document, dated May 1. “We further assess the Chinese Government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data.”
An accompanying “reference aid,” issued the same day as that report, reviews the trade data in more detail, citing the increase and decrease of exports and imports of specific medical equipment.
Both documents are unclassified but marked for official use only. ABC first reported the existence of the intelligence document. Yahoo obtained it and the accompanying reference aid and is publishing them in full.
Finally a few paragraphs of just reporting! So if these findings from the US are true, then it means that early on the Chicoms must’ve known how this virus spreads or else they wouldn’t have felt the need to hoard medical supplies. Taiwan knew at the end of December, but WHO stated in middle of January that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
You can read the full document below: