Weaponising specific viruses to target races

【縛雞之見】

The point that opens my eyes is “target races.” 
The newspaper in Taiwan translates it as “the target is the human race;” however, according to the syntax, it should be understood as “designated races” to match the purpose of biological weapons.

讓我大開眼界的是「目標族群」。
台灣報紙將其翻譯為「目標是人類」；但按照句法，應該理解為「指定的種族」，以配合生化武器的用途。

Official 2011 Chinese government submission discusses ‘weaponising specific viruses to target races’    Sky News Australia 20210627

An official Chinese government document – submitted to the United Nation’s Biological Weapons Convention in 2011 – discusses “weaponising specific viruses to target races,” according to Sky News host Sharri Markson. “It is a shocking and grotesque area of bioresearch,” Ms Markson said. She said it was part of the warning which was included in the government’s formal submission to the United Nation’s Biological Weapons Convention in 2011. Ms Markson said the documents show that the Chinese government took concerns about a potential lab leak extremely seriously. “So seriously they said a lab leak involving virus research could place the whole of mankind in great danger”. “China even says that biotechnology research means there are difficulties complying with the biological weapons convention”. “There is no evidence that COVID-19 was a biological weapon, nor that China has carried out a biological attack,” Ms Markson said. “The significance of this is that the Chinese government included a discussion about these threats in its official submission to the United Nations Biological Weapons Convention as relevant issues that could impact on compliance with the Convention moving forward”. “Nothing in this document is more significant than China' serious concerns about a laboratory accident and the threat that this could pose to mankind. “China and its cronies have repeatedly insisted over the past 19 months that the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan is a conspiracy theory. This is a lie.” Ms Markson spoke to the former lead investigator who spearheaded a taskforce for the US government into the origins of COVID-19 – David Asher – about the developments.

 

澳媒揭露中國官方文件︰北京承認「實驗室」洩毒風險    自由 20210629

中國10年前對聯合國發出警告

〔編譯茅毅／綜合報導〕澳洲「天空新聞」（Sky News Australia）主持人兼「澳洲人報」（The Australian）調查記者馬克森（Sharri Markson），廿七日披露一份中國政府文件，顯示北京當局在二○一一年對聯合國發出「可怕、令人不寒而慄的警告」，「承認」（admit）涉及病毒研究的實驗室發生意外的風險，恐置全人類於極大危險之中。

稱人造病毒研究 讓生物戰更隱匿

中國政府在該年十一月廿三日向聯合國「禁止生物武器公約」（BWC）締約國第七次審查會議提交前述文件，旨在討論「針對人類的武器化特殊病毒」。馬克森指出，這是生物研究中一個「駭人聽聞又怪異可怖的領域」，該文件顯示，「中國政府極為擔憂一起潛在的實驗室外洩（情況）」，可能使世人面臨重大風險。

中方文件提到，人造病毒研究可以讓「生物戰攻擊更為隱匿」，「外源基因」（foreign genes）或病毒可以無症狀地被導入目標群體之中，進而「隱匿地發動生物武器攻擊」，「大幅增加生物武器的破壞力」。而從事生物科技研究，意味著在遵守BWC上「有困難」。

馬克森指出，文件提到在生物科技的合成生物研究和應用過程中，可能會意外「引發新的、高危害性的人造病原體（hazardous man-made pathogens），並造成前所未見的後果」，而中國政府承認，實驗室中的「合成人造病原體」（synthesising man-made pathogens）有危害全人類的極端風險；就是因為中國政府「很清楚」有這種風險，「所以才向聯合國提交此一文件」。

華府智庫「哈德遜研究所」高級研究員艾薛爾（David Asher），去年曾受委託領導一支調查武漢肺炎源頭與中國政府扮演角色的專案小組，他認為該文件顯示，北京早就清楚知道藉由人造病毒實驗，可以進一步發展為有威力的生物武器。

馬克森指出，儘管北京當局過去十九個月來始終堅稱，有關武肺病毒可能是從武漢病毒研究所外洩的說法為「陰謀論」，目前也沒有證據顯示武肺病毒是一種「生物戰劑」，但該文件的重要性在於中國政府參與相關威脅的討論，最值得注意的是，中方嚴重關切實驗室意外及其可能對人類帶來的威脅。