‘New era of genetic weapons’: Reports say China probed weaponising coronaviruses in 2015


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India, China reach disengagement pact in Pangong lake areas in Ladakh: Rajnath; Army tanks begin pullback US officials allegedly obtained the papers which were written by military scientists and senior Chinese public health officials in 2015 as part of their own investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Chinese scientists described SARS coronaviruses — of which COVID is one example — as presenting a “new era of genetic weapons”. The PLA papers referenced seem to fantasise that a bioweapon attack could cause the “enemy’s medical system to collapse”. It references work by US Air Force colonel Michael J. Ainscough, who predicted...