Another Curious Event: Angela Merkel’s September 2019 Visit to Wuhan
In a much-tweeted soundbite from the recent Congressional hearing on the origins of Covid-19, former CDC director Robert Redfield noted that three unusual events occurred in Wuhan in September 2019 suggesting a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
But another, in retrospect, highly curious event also occurred in Wuhan in September 2019: namely, none other than then German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit to the city. She was there indeed at the precise time when Redfield suspects a lab leak occurred!
And her visit highlights a whole series of intriguing German links to virus research in the city. For the details, see me new article at Brownstone here.
Excellent work, great delving.
You ask, at the end of your Brownstone report: "Why does the ample evidence of manifold German connections to and indeed involvement in virus research in Wuhan not merit at least the same degree of scrutiny, if not to say of certainty?"
(I highly recommend reading the linked report.)
I'd guess the answer is:
It's because the German press, like their American counterparts, know well -- and are likely often reminded, that there are certain facts about past and present political leaders that are to remain unavailable to the general public, depending upon each leader's party affiliation.
(No wonder you write under nom de plume.)