By Joseph D’Hippolito, The Stream, June 27, 2021
Joseph D’Hippolito has written commentaries for such outlets as the Jerusalem Post, the American Thinker and Front Page Magazine. He works as a free-lance writer.
Months before controversy surrounded Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in gain-of-function virus research, a Chinese professor put the COVID-19 pandemic in a frightening light.
Chen Ping, a senior research fellow at Fudan University’s Center for New Political Economy, called COVID-19 a bioweapon.
“In 2020, China won the trade war, science and technology war, and especially the biological war,” Chen said in January. “The achievement is unprecedented. This is an epoch-making historical record. So for the liberal, America-worshiping cult within China, their worship of the U.S. is actually unfounded. After this trade war and biological warfare, the U.S. was beaten back to its original shape.” …