U.S. House Intelligence Committee Member: China Had Biological Weapons Ambitions Long Before Pandemic

It was reported on December 27, the Chinese regime had made its clear biological weapons ambitions long before the outbreak of the CCP virus pandemic, according to Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio).

Brad, together with Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), released a report on the origins of the CCP virus pandemic on Dec. 14, which presented evidence of Communist China’s preparation of bioweapons. Subsequently, Brad said in an interview that, as early as 2005, the U.S. State Department was aware that Communist China was operating an offensive biological weapons program, specifically identified two Chinese entities involved, one of which is the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s Fifth Institute of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) . In a 2006 declaration of compliance with the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, China acknowledged that the Fifth Institute specifically conducts research on SARS coronaviruses.

Brad also took note of the book titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Humanized Viruses as Genetic Weapons,” released by AMMS in 2015. The book described how to create weaponized chimeric SARS coronaviruses, the potentially broader scope for their use compared to traditional bioweapons, and the benefits of being able to plausibly deny that such chimeric coronaviruses were artificially created rather than naturally occurring. AMMS had also collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the body at the center of the lab leak theory of the pandemic origins. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)’s declassified assessment of the origins of CCP virus released in October 2021 did not address important information that indicates the CCP’s interest in offensive bioweapons. Brad emphasized that the committee would continue to probe the pandemic origins, especially after the Republicans take the gavel in January of next year.