By CHRISTOPHER MANION
In February 2020, the New York Post published a cover story about the pandemic that had just begun to sweep the nation.
“Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab,” the headline read.
“Boom! came down the Big Tech hammer, as our opinion piece got suppressed as disinformation,” the New York Post editors wrote last week.
And they’re right — the story was immediately scrubbed from all major social media. Big Tech put a tight lid on any notion that China could possibly have developed the virus at Wuhan’s Level Four Bio-Lab run by the Communist Chinese Defense Ministry.
“Conspiracy theory! Pass out the tinfoil hats!”
But the article wasn’t just a shot in the dark. Its author, Steven W. Mosher, didn’t learn his Chinese history from social media. Over forty years ago, he was already one of the most informed China scholars in Stanford University’s Department of Anthropology.
The Chinese Communist government agreed, and Mosher was the first American social scientist invited by Chinese authorities to study the life of the rural Chinese.
At the time, Stanford was vying to become the “Gateway to China” for American academics, an honorific that carried great weight among the elites. Mosher was a perfect choice to for the prestigious post: a pro-choice atheist anthropologist, he was guaranteed to deliver a report on his findings that would please the proper authorities, as well as provide not only material for an excellent doctoral dissertation, but also a best-selling study that would have a lasting impact on the field of China studies.
But that was all to change. When Mosher landed in China in 1979, he arrived on the scene as China inaugurated its “One-Child Program.” This new law required that, once a mother had given birth to her first child, every new child she conceived must be aborted — by force.
After having watched the draconian measures implemented to carry out this mass slaughter, Mosher began to reconsider his liberal convictions.
Professionally, that decision was disastrous. When he published his findings, the Chinese government kicked him out of the country. Stanford, afraid of offending their Communist partners, showed him the door as well.
Personally, however, Mosher’s experience led him to become a Roman Catholic and, not long thereafter, a pro-life leader. In the early 1980s, he testified about China’s murderous program before the U.S. Senate. Pro-abortion Democrats were outraged, and demanded a briefing from a career U.S. government expert to prove Mosher wrong.
Sen. Jesse Helms (R., N.C.) chaired that briefing. When it began, indignant Democrats and their staffers made clear their displeasure. They wanted the government official to condemn Mosher’s findings and wrap it up in ten minutes.
However, the official took a different tack. He calmly and extensively reviewed Mosher’s findings, adding factual background drawing from his own research. He based his testimony solely on public records.
As he concluded, he said:
“The questions I have been asked to address are three: ‘Does this forced-abortion program exist, does the Chinese Government know about it, and does the Chinese Government enforce it?’”
He paused.
“The answer to all three of these questions, Senators, is ‘Yes’.”
There were audible gasps around the room.
An interesting detail: The hearing was “classified” at a low level solely to protect the identity of the U.S. government official who testified.
Why?
He said he wanted to be able to return to China.
Mosher also shared his findings with Reagan administration officials — much to the dismay of the State Department’s China “experts,” not to mention the abortion lobby.
Ultimately, those findings played an important role in formulating President Reagan’s “Mexico City Policy,” which was finally announced in 1984.
That policy requires foreign recipients of U.S. taxpayer funding (known as “Foreign Aid”) to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.” Those who refuse will not receive U.S. global “family planning assistance.” In the years since, Republican presidents have enforced it, Obama and Biden have reversed it.
Before long, Mosher’s pro-life work led him to Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, who founded the Population Research Institute (PRI) and named Mosher to lead it some thirty years ago. Since then, PRI has become a prominent leader in the pro-life movement worldwide.
Three Years Later, Vindication
After Mosher’s February 2020 article appeared, other groups and a wide array of experts came forward to press the questions: Was the virus man-made? If so, who made it? Why?
They were all dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” in a campaign of denial and censorship that continued for over three years.
And then, last weekend, The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell: The U.S. Energy Department had revealed that “A Lab Leak in China [was the] Most Likely Origin of Covid Pandemic.”
“The Energy Department,” the stunning report read, “now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory,” according to “an updated document from the National Security Council.”
“The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research….The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with ‘moderate confidence’ and still holds to this view,” the Journal added.
In an interview last Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News: “Origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. The Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to thwart and obfuscate the work we’re doing,” he said.
But the Chinese Communists are not the only forces doing their best “to thwart and obfuscate the work” to prove the origins of the virus. For three years, their denials were amplified by a unanimous and unhinged establishment media.
A typical example: “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots,” wrote Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times journalist covering COVID-19 in May 2021. “But alas, that day is not today.”
Why Is Biden So Afraid
Of Offending Xi?
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is silent on China.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) was an early supporter of Mosher’s lab leak theory. Today, he ducks the applause and goes straight to the action item: “Being proven right doesn’t matter,” he says. “What matters is holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable so this doesn’t happen again.”
But Cong. James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Oversight, isn’t optimistic.
“China manipulates their currency. China steals our intellectual property. China infiltrated our academic institutions. China hid the Wuhan lab leak that ignited the pandemic,” he wrote this week on Twitter. “And China used the Biden family to gain access.”
Indeed, public records show that China has given $54 million to the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the Biden Center.
So, we’d better not count on Joe.
To quote Bob Dole’s plaintive question in the 1996 presidential debates, “Where’s the outrage?”
Consider: “Russia!! Russia!!” was effective for years. “Russia is blackmailing Trump,” the media cried.
The hoax was proven totally false, but its effectiveness works even today, as Biden condemns every opponent as a “Putin Stooge.”
On the other hand, there is copious factual proof that the Biden family has profited immensely from the ChiComs. Tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions. The Government of China undoubtedly has sufficient information to take Joe Biden down in a heartbeat.
Is Joe Biden a “Xi Stooge”?
Where’s the outrage?
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