The idea that coronavirus is a Chinese-made bioweapon is one that has been long discredited. Still, it’s one that some conspiracy theorists cling to. One of them is Clare Lopez, a right-wing activist whom we saw last among other biased right-wingers (and discredited fraud Wayne Simmons) on Accuracy in Media’s “Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi.” For some reason, Newsmax gave Lopez a May 11 column to pursue her new conspiracy theory.
Lopez ranted that “With CCP [“Commuinist Chinese Party”] propaganda efforts in full overdrive, it is important that USG [could be “U.S. government,” but Lopez never explains the acronym] leadership speak openly and clearly about Beijing’s advanced Biological Weapons Program (BWP). This particular coronavirus may have escaped a CCP lab accidentally, but its creation was anything but unintentional.” She went on to quote speculation that a biology lab in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus first appeared, “is linked to China’s covert bio-weapons program,” then concluded with more speculation and conspiracy theorizing:
To put this in perspective, it is important to understand how Xi Jinping and the CCP’s top leadership think. They are steeped in thousands of years of Chinese history and warfare. Sun Tzu’s 500 B.C “Art of War” is studied alongside the 1999 “Unrestricted Warfare.” Let’s conclude here with the secret speech of Chi Haotian, who was China’s Defense Minister from 1993 to 2003 and also Vice Chairman of the CCP’s Central Military Commission. In this chilling speech, translated into English in 2005, Gen. Chi openly referred to the CCP’s intention to militarily defeat, occupy, and colonize the U.S. And what of 330 million Americans? The CCP will be “using special means to ‘clean up’ America”, i.e., “new bio-weapons.”
No, thanks, we’ll just stick with actual, authoritative sources who aren’t so much into baseless, discredited speculation.