A Harvard University professor and two other Chinese nationals were federally indicted in three separate cases for allegedly lying to the US about their involvement with China’s government.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, who is the chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, is accused of lying about working with several Chinese organizations, where he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese entities.
The complaint alleges that Lieber had lied about his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and a contract he had with a Chinese talent recruitment plan to attract high-level scientists to the country.
A cancer researcher, Zaosong Zheng, was indicted for trying to smuggle 21 vials of biological material out of the US to China and lying about it to federal investigators.
Zaosong, 30, whose entry was sponsored by Harvard University, had hidden the vials in a sock before boarding the plane.
Here’s another tin-foil hat conspiracy theory;
Let’s say China wanted to start a biological war and not be blamed.
They create a virus that’s easy to transmit and has a lower mortality rate, but just high enough to disrupt the world.
Then have an incident where they infect a boat load of people but shoo half of them around the globe by warning them of a lock down.
They implement a draconian lock down of their entire country to burn it out locally while few other countries have the ability to do the same.
They crash the world’s economies by disrupting global supply chains, but in the end can recover faster due to their lock down.
In the end they have the ability to come out on top of the heap after losing 6 months to a year of economic activity, a relatively small percentage of people, and no real blame since they were part of it all. Who wouldn’t take that sort of payback at the end of a world war for economic dominance?
The stuff of fantasy, right? Or is it…