My Enemy, 'Xi Jinping,' a book written by Yang Yi, the first Chinese to win the Akutagawa Prize and then become a naturalized citizen of Japan,
which I will introduce in this chapter proves my editorial to be correct.
Her writings are very concise and lucid and will eventually earn her a historical classic's reputation.
Prologue: The Deep Darkness of the New Coronavirus
Why did it spread from China?
My name is Yang Yi.
I studied in Japan from Harbin, China, and became a naturalized citizen of Japan.
I was fascinated by the Japanese language and started writing, and I was fortunate enough to win the Akutagawa Prize in 2008 for my novel The Morning When Time Slips Away (Bungei Shunju).
The novel is about two young men growing up in a poor Chinese village and their ambitions to go to university. Still, during their time there, they encounter the "Tiananmen Square Incident" and experience anguish and frustration.
What can we do for the nation and society? It is the message I intend to convey.
A new type of coronavirus infection is now sweeping the world.
A new type of coronavirus, COVID -19, which broke out in Wuhan, China, has spread to the rest of the world at a furious pace.
In the beginning, the situation was viewed as a 'fire on the other side of the river.' Still, in the blink of an eye, the disease spread to the United States and Europe as well, and the number of people infected and killed quickly overtook the source of infection, China.
It is where I feel a great sense of fear.
How did this plague spread from China to the rest of the world?
I couldn't help but think about it seriously.
So how did I come to this conclusion…
I will tell you how it happened and my thoughts on the matter in this book.
The Tragedy of the Young Doctor
I believe that the global pandemic's most significant cause was undoubtedly the inadequate response of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government and its penchant for hiding information.
In other words, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the current pandemic is a human-made disaster caused by the mismanagement of the Chinese Communist Party.
Rather than "misrule," I feel that it may have been intentional.
Counting backward from the patient (Patient O) with symptoms of what appears to be a new type of pneumonia, the first case seems to have occurred around November 2019.
And it was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31.
Since then, the number of people infected has continued to rise rapidly.
Despite this, it was not until January 20, six weeks after the outbreak, that the Chinese authorities recognized "human-to-human" infection and began to take a full-scale response.
Furthermore, Dr. Li Wenliang, a 33-year-old ophthalmologist at the Central Clinic in Wuhan, who had warned the authorities about the danger of new pneumonia, was forced to write a letter of criticism "spreading false rumors" and was reprimanded for "disrupting the social order."
On December 30, the day before Wuhan City first announced the fact of infection, Dr. Li saw the patient's tests and reported on WeChat, the Chinese version of the line, that seven cases of SARS-like symptoms had been confirmed in the seafood market.
SARS is a "severe acute respiratory syndrome" that raged in China in 2003.
The purpose was to alert fellow workers in the medical field to the disease.
Patients were being treated in Dr. Li's hospital's emergency department, and Dr. Li continued to treat them, but they contracted a nosocomial infection and lost their lives.
Even as his coughing began and his debilitation became more pronounced, Dr. Li was still appealing to the truth in media interviews.
He said, "We must not succumb to interference by public authorities. A healthy society should not be made up of 'a single voice.'
If the Wuhan authorities had listened to Dr. Li's words and taken action as soon as possible, the disease's spread could have been prevented.
And Dr. Li might not have lost his life.
But Dr. Li's words were blocked.
On the contrary, one suspects that the authorities did not allow him to receive proper medical treatment to illustrate the accusations.
As a result, Wuhan citizens were not informed of the facts and continued to live their lives as usual, which led to the explosion of the infection.
In the first place, the authorities were reluctant to inform them of the danger, so they may have felt that Dr. Li's accusations were just "somebody else's problem."
The spread of the new coronavirus was a "man-made disaster" caused by the Chinese government.
There is an interesting point to be made about the new coronavirus.
Since it was detected and confirmed intensively in the Wuhan South Seafood Wholesale Market, the Chinese government has previously explained that the outbreak's source was "wild animals bought and sold in the Wuhan market."
By "wild animals," we mean bats, to be specific.
It alone gives the impression that the bats were distributed as a foodstuff and that they were the virus's source.
However, this is not the case.
The new coronavirus indeed originated from bats.
However, Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, is not a bat habitat.
It means that someone has artificially transported it from its habitat.
An article was published in the UK's Daily Mail on January 23, "The real source of the new coronavirus is likely to be the Biosafety Laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (commonly known as the P4 laboratory), located about 21 kilometers from the seafood market," according to the article.
There are two bioscience laboratories near this seafood market.
The "Wuhan Disease Prevention and Control Center" is located about 300 meters from the market, and the "Wuhan Virus Research Institute" is about 12 km away.
The latter laboratory is a "P4 laboratory," where the highest level of experiments is conducted.
The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is said to have the highest level of equipment.
P stands for "Protect," and level 4 is the highest level.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is the only lab in China with P4 equipment, which means that this is the best institute for virus research in China.
According to Hong Kong media, the paper published by Professor Xiao Bo Tao of South China Polytechnic University, Guangdong Province, China, was, 'It is more likely that the new coronavirus was spread by a spill from one or both of the two biotechnology research facilities in Wuhan than the possibility that the new coronavirus was transmitted to humans via intermediate hosts such as bats.'
According to this article, it is well known that virus modification experiments are being conducted at this institute, and already in 2017, scientists in Western countries questioned the institute's flawed management system. It warned of the danger of virus leakage from this laboratory.
The material has been sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) "GenBank" in the United States.
After examining the samples, the new coronavirus that has emerged in Wuhan this time is very similar to the new coronavirus found and isolated by the People's Liberation Army in 2018 from the body of the Zhoushan bat, which lives in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, or, more precisely, the Zhoushan bat virus has been artificially modified.
The evidence for this is that the new coronavirus's E protein's compositional structure is almost 100% similar to that of the Zhoushan bat virus.
In the evolutionary process of the natural world, "100%" is not possible.
Incidentally, in establishing this P4 laboratory, China once requested the cooperation of French medical experts.
However, it is said that the French side warned the French government that the Chinese might eventually divert the results of their research into biological weapons.
Bats as a vector to 'modify' new coronavirus
The Zhoushan bat is the host of the SARS virus that originated in China's Guangdong province in 2002-03 and caused a global pandemic.
Research at the University of Hong Kong collected the virus from an infected patient in Hong Kong in January of this year and analyzed its genetic information (genome), and found that it was similar to the SARS virus found in a similar species previously captured in the city of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province and that the symptoms of infected people were identical to those of SARS.
The paper was also published in the electronic edition of the UK's The Lancet.
On February 20, the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one of the world's largest science and technology academies, established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province near the border of China, Myanmar, and Laos, announced on its official website the results of its investigation that the new coronavirus occurred outside of the wholesale seafood market as follows.
The garden, together with other research institutions such as the Beijing Brain Science and Analogy Research Center, will collect genomic data of 93 new coronavirus samples from 12 countries/regions on four continents that are shared in the database of the Global Initiative for the Sharing of Avian Influenza Information (GISAID) by February 12, 2020. Analysis. As a result, the virus was analyzed in late November and early December 2019, when an unidentified intermediate animal transmitted the virus to its first human host. Around the same time, the virus was also transferred from human to human and then spread to those who were infected, mainly those involved in the seafood market and customers".
In response, on February 26, the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the head of Wuhan's governing body, and the Wuhan municipal government issued a conclusion in China's largest Weibo, the opinion of the medical team of the new coronavirus task force, that "as for the first patient residing in the city who became ill on December 8, 2019, he had never visited the seafood wholesale market in the past and this was not the source of the outbreak.
That patient has already recovered and has been discharged from the hospital.
All in all, the new coronavirus is not a natural "natural" epidemic, but a biohazard, a human-mediated pandemic that has spread.
It is more likely to be an 'incident' rather than an 'accident,' a disaster created by the authorities.
Even after addressing this, it is clear that the Chinese government has been more concerned with hiding information than "protecting the people from danger."
The authorities have put their 'face' above the lives of the Chinese people.
The Chinese Communist Party hides information and shifts responsibility to others.
It is not the only allegation surrounding the P4 laboratory.
There are also suspicions that the new coronavirus was not leaked to the outside world due to sloppy management, but was 'intentionally spread.'
In September 2019, the People's Liberation Army held a military exercise in Wuhan, and at the time, the Wuhan authorities posted the following on Weibo's website.
Of course, they had no way of knowing at the time that it would be such a big deal.
'A person (who attended the exercise) became extremely ill and had difficulty breathing, which was said to be life-threatening, and was rushed to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a new type of coronavirus, which was said to be caused by a new kind of coronavirus.
In other words, at this point, the People's Liberation Army was conducting drills in Wuhan on the assumption of an outbreak of a new type of coronavirus.
The December military exercise even included a "simulation of what would happen if the infection were discovered on a cruise ship" in an army port near Nanjing.
It can be found on the websites of the agencies that participated in the military exercise.
And one more thing, in October 2019, the Military Olympics (hosted by the Military World Games and the International Military Sports Council) were held in Wuhan in October 2019, and 9,300 military teams from 109 countries around the world visited Wuhan, including U.S. and Russian military personnel.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army's biological and chemical units conducted anti-epidemic training at Wuhan International Airport on the Olympiad.
The assumption is that a new type of coronavirus "leaked" from foreign troops' luggage participating in the military games.
I believe that the "leak" was a transfer of responsibility. There was an assumption within the People's Liberation Army that the new coronavirus would be used militarily as a biological weapon.
Of course, on the other hand, some object to its being a biological weapon.
The argument is, "China has a large territory, so why should we manufacture something so dangerous in a transportation hub like Wuhan, which is located in the country's heart? It is what it means.
Indeed, it is common sense to assume that if a biological weapon is to be manufactured, it must be in a desert or plateau where few people live.
However, this argument alone does not dispel suspicions about the biological weapons production plan. In fact, Japan has a history of promoting nuclear power plants' construction, overruling the judgment that they are dangerous.
It is still suspected that the Chinese Communist Party recombined the new coronavirus at the P4 laboratory of the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research. The purpose of the recombination was to develop a 'biological weapon.'
Regardless of the facts, China is the source of the global pandemic.
The Chinese authorities have a responsibility to admit this fact to the world and explain the situation's details.
Yet, they not only refuse to disclose any information at all; they are continually shifting the blame to others, such as "the U.S. military brought the virus to Wuhan."
Why is the Chinese Communist Party government so stubbornly refusing to admit its own failings and shift responsibility to others?
Because the Chinese Communist Party has reasons why it "can't" and the reasons why it "shouldn't."
So I would like to denounce "this pandemic is a man-made disaster by the Chinese government" and reveal the background and the real cause of the pandemic.
As a Chinese person, I wrote this book, hoping that the Chinese government would correct its stance.