"Beijing looks like it attempted biowarfare with the novel coronavirus from Wuhan. Now, they may be trying their hand at ecological warfare."
Some think the packages [of seeds marked as "jewelry"] could be part of a "brushing scam" — an effort to create fake customer reviews on online retail platforms — but that appears unlikely. For one thing, there is no indication these seeds — there are several varieties of them — are either branded or are offered for sale.
"DO NOT plant them," officials in every state have warned.
There is also an infamous statement attributed to General Chi Haotian. In a secret speech to senior Communist Party officials sometime around 2002, Chi, then the Chinese defense minister, stated there was a need for "new living space" because of the exhaustion of existing Chinese territory. Chi suggested the "mass colonization" of the land occupied by United States as the best option.
"We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with America by using nuclear weapons," he said. The way to "clean up" the U.S., Chi argued, would be through biological attacks.
"For forty years, the Chinese have used unconventional tactics to further their ambitious goal of defeating the United States," said Brandon Weichert of the Weichert Report to this publication. "They employed economic warfare, lawfare, information warfare, and cyber warfare. Beijing looks like it attempted biowarfare with the novel coronavirus from Wuhan. Now, they may be trying their hand at ecological warfare."
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Residents in
"DO NOT plant them," officials in every state have
"They could be invasive, meaning they may have the potential to introduce diseases to local plants, or could be harmful to livestock," the Montana Department of Agriculture
Trump administration officials now need to ask one question: Are the seeds a biological-warfare attack on the United States?
China acceded to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1984 but today is almost certainly in violation of its obligations.
The State Department's
Moreover, China today is almost certainly conducting biological weapons research in violation of its obligations. "The United States has compliance concerns with respect to Chinese military medical institutions' toxin research and development because of the potential dual-use applications and their potential as a biological threat," the State Department report notes.
Perhaps most disturbingly, Beijing is directing its efforts at particular segments of humanity. As a "senior Trump administration official" in May told
Multiple intelligence sources suggest Beijing inked a secret three-year agreement with Islamabad to
China has had a long history of studying the offensive use of viruses. "Intelligence sources found evidence of two epidemics of hemorrhagic fever in the area in the late 1980s, where these diseases were previously unknown,"
SARS, the epidemic beginning in 2002 in China, may also have started with a leak of a "combat virus," as Russian experts have speculated. Then, Julie Gerberding of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the SARS genome "didn't look like much of any of the viruses we already had in our reference strain collection." Some believe SARS started with a natural mutation but, as the World Health Organization explained at the time, was
Today, there are indications the COVID-19 pandemic started with a leak from a bioweapons lab. The core of the argument,
Especially troubling is that in February, China
Regardless of the origin of the coronavirus, Chinese ruler Xi Jinping in December and January took steps — falsely denying the contagiousness of the disease and pressuring countries not to impose travel restrictions on arrivals from China — that he knew or should have known would inevitably
Attacking the world — specifically the United States — with disease is consistent with the doctrine of China's People's Liberation Army, as is evident from
Moreover, there is also an infamous statement attributed to General Chi Haotian. In a
"We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with America by using nuclear weapons," he said. The way to "clean up" the U.S., Chi argued, would be through biological attacks.
"Even though we cannot confirm whether General Chi gave that speech, suspicions surrounding China's concealment of the SARS epidemic plus suspicions of the connections between research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with the global pandemic only add to the longstanding concern about Beijing's bioweapons program," Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center told Gatestone.
That brings us back to the Chinese seeds now in the U.S. Some think the packages could be part of a "brushing scam" — an effort to create fake customer reviews on online retail platforms — but that appears unlikely. For one thing, there is no indication these seeds — there are several varieties of them — are either branded or are offered for sale.
Yet whatever the reason for their distribution — commercial or geopolitical — the seeds can cause great damage to the United States. "For forty years, the Chinese have used unconventional tactics to further their ambitious goal of defeating the United States," said Brandon Weichert of the Weichert Report to this publication. "They employed economic warfare, lawfare, information warfare, and cyber warfare. Beijing looks like it attempted biowarfare with the novel coronavirus from Wuhan. Now, they may be trying their hand at ecological warfare."
China for decades has been broadening the concept of warfare, and with the mysterious seeds there just may have been another attack on the United States.
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