A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone …
Mr. Wenstrup said the documents, released to the subcommittee after an earlier release to an open government group, are credible and “highly pertinent” to the panel’s probe into the origin of the pandemic. The document then states in subheadings over blacked-out sections that “Beijing knew earlier than they admit” about the disease outbreak.
The State Department in a January 2021 fact sheet stated that secret PLA animal experiments and other military-related activities were carried out at the WIV. The panel is looking into federal funding for gain-of-function virus research and executive branch communications on the pandemic. A State Department spokesman said the department does not comment on communications with Congress.
The paper by two Georgetown University presenters “explores how the Chinese Communist Party ’s gender politics have evolved and how they affect China’s national security,” an outline of the paper stated. Another session on international relations theory focused on “constructivism and feminism,” according to an outline of that session.