NUR-SULTAN, Aug 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – The hypothesis, hyped up by Western countries that the novel coronavirus was deliberately leaked by a Chinese lab, is a geopolitical conspiracy, according to the China Studies Centre in Kazakhstan.
The U.S. zeal, trying to pin the blame of the pandemic on China, is a result of rising economic competition between the two countries, said a report by the centre.
Earlier this year, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, suggested, it was most likely that the virus spread to humans from bats through an unspecified intermediary animal.
However, the United States criticised the report as incomplete and lacking crucial data, and a U.S. intelligence report recently finished, but not yet released to the public, reportedly found “a lab leak in Wuhan plausible.”
The report, by Kazakh leading research institute on China, questioned these Western theories, saying, this is a purposeful work for their domestic audience and an attempt to divert their citizens’ attention, from the governments’ failure in containing the COVID-19 pandemic and the inefficiency of their political systems.
“If the Chinese government really were so ‘insidious’ and would release an artificially grown virus from the laboratory, then why would it be done on their territory … with its 1.4 billion people and a high population density, which is a very favourable environment for the spread of any virus in principle?” said the report.
Such Western hypotheses do not hold water, because, considering China’s years of efforts to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and so much effort put in human capital, it would be “suicide to imagine some kind of laboratory games with a dangerous little-studied virus, and also unpredictable threat to national security,” according to the report.
At the end, the report noted that, the country where an epidemic originated does not have to make compensation.
“If we recall the global epidemics and deadly diseases of the past, no one in history has paid any compensation. Various epidemics of plague, smallpox, cholera, Spanish flu – were they less deadly? Or if you recall the country from which AIDS began to spread in 1981, to whom and what did it pay for the 25 million deaths?” concluded the report.– NNN-XINHUA
