James Zumwalt began his May 17 WorldNetDaily column by detailing a purportedly diabolical plan by the Chinese:
Understanding this plan first mandates understanding China’s position on U.S./China coexistence. Little effort has been made to help us appreciate this relationship as an irresponsible media promotes more coverage to Taylor Swift’s love life than to this issue.
But evidence concerning this issue was raised by a secret 2003 address given by former Defense Minister Gen. Chi Hoatian. While that speech was lengthy and the fate outlined for America shocking, the following quote related to the coexistence of our two countries is most telling: “We must not forget that the history of our civilization repeatedly has taught us that one mountain does not allow two tigers to live together.”
For Americans who really believe China lacks ill will toward us, the quote could not be more revealing: Regardless of America’s intentions to coexist with China, Beijing shuns a mutual intention – seeking to slay the American tiger. But what is even more shocking is how it is to be done.
In his speech, Hoatian recognized that American ingenuity was at the forefront of 21st century technological advancements and, as a nation, America is blessed with numerous natural resources. Thus, his game plan sought to spend the approaching decades obtaining America’s technological secrets while simultaneously working quietly on a “final solution” to permanently eliminate the U.S. as a world power.
Because it was imperative to China’s future success a solution be developed enabling it to access an “intact” America capable of being occupied by China, Hoatian explained nuclear war was no option. Obviously, the devastation on both sides would be horrendous. His final solution, therefore, focused on developing a contagious deadly disease targeting Caucasians only.
Zumwalt’s implication, of course, is that COVID-19 was China’s attempt at a Caucasian-only virus. Here in the real world, however, white people saw lower death rates than most other ethnicities, and as the virus mutated, Asians moved from having the lowest infection rate to the highest.
It’s telling of Zumwalt’s slipshod research that he spelled the guy’s name wrong throughout his column — it’s Haotian. Zumwalt’s source for Haotian’s alleged speech is J.R. Nyquist, a writer for the Epoch Times, a rabidly anti-communist China publication, so it’s hard to trust at face value given the agenda behind it. Another sign of Zumwalt’s slipshod research is the editor’s note currently at the top of his column: “This column has been edited to correct an earlier incorrect statement about 23 & Me.” In the original version of his column, Zumwalt wrote:
In February 2024, the leading personal genomics and biotechnology company – 23 & Me – announced it had sold its entire DNA database to the Chinese government for $10 billion. It is the first time any government has purchased direct access to genetic data involving millions of individuals – and these are not even its own citizens! Is this yet one more step in China’s final solution to develop an infectious Caucasian-only disease?
Just one problem: that claim was satire. As a fact-checker found, the article making the claim Zumwalt is referencing stated: “This article is a work of parody and for entertainment purposes only. No such sale or agreement has been made between 23 & Me and any government. Please read with a sense of humor and a grain of salt.” That paragraph has since been replace with something much less dramatic and at least somewhat more correct:
The leading personal genomics and biotechnology company – 23 & Me – is being accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect the privacy of customers whose personal information was exposed last year in a data breach that affected nearly 7 million profiles. While the responsible family has yet to be identified, a gambling man would put his money on China as the culprit as such data would come in very handy for its final solution of an infectious Caucasian-only disease.
Zumwalt’s correction didn’t include correcting the spelling of 23andMe’s name.
Zumwalt has to keep the conspiracy alive, no matter how crazy — and he loves his conspiracies, having once portrayed Joe Biden as a Manchurian candidate. And WND remains in legal peril because of Zumwalt over a column after the 2020 election that repeated apparently false claims that an official for election-tech company Dominion was an Antifa sympathizer and bragged the vote was being rigged for Biden. The official has filed numerous defamation suits against those who spread the false claim, including the right-wing activist from whom Zumwalt got the claim, Joe Oltmann; it’s currently winding its way through the legal system with the official prevailing on several preliminary claims.
Zumwalt and WND somehow managed to escape getting sued over this, even as the column remains live and uncorrected. Perhaps that’s why WND quickly (and quietly) edited Zumwalt’s above column — the correction was made by the afternoon of May 19, two days after its original publication — to remove the false claim about 23andMe. And yet despite such a bonehead move and placing WND in legal peril, WND still publishes Zumwalt.