| Despite their signature on the Biological Weapons | | | | enemies, such as Taiwan. We could even retaliate |
| Convention of 1975, it has been reported that | | | | against Japan for the 1940 bombing of China with |
| China has the most advanced modern germ | | | | plague-infected fleas.By itself, the scenario above |
| warfare arsenal in the world at Xian, Shaanxi | | | | sounds far-fetched, until you recall a very similar |
| province.As proof, information obtained using the | | | | scenario that featured SARS instead of bird flu. |
| Freedom of Information Act shows that in 1997 | | | | It's been more than two years since the Chinese |
| Clinton administration officials approved | | | | government lied about their knowledge of SARS |
| supercomputer exports to a known Chinese germ | | | | and then finally confessed that SARS somehow |
| warfare lab without an end use inspection. The | | | | "escaped" from a Chinese military lab, but we still |
| computer was delivered to Jiatong University, | | | | don't have a vaccine for SARS. Why? Because it |
| Xian. The university is a known center for | | | | was genetically engineered by Chinese scientists, |
| bioweapons research.Furthermore, in April 2005, | | | | making it very difficult to produce a vaccine.The |
| Deputy Director of China's Academy of Military | | | | U.S. has been playing rather fast and loose with |
| Medical Sciences, Cao Wuchun said "China is | | | | the BWC,too.In 2001, New York Times journalists, |
| developing technology to resist possible bioterror | | | | Judith Miller and Stephen Engelberg, uncovered the |
| attacks." The science lab used to develop | | | | Defense Intelligence Agency's effort at the |
| resistance to bioattack can be the same science | | | | Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, to |
| lab to develop bioweapons.In 2001, the U.S. State | | | | genetically engineer a strain of vaccine-resistant |
| Department issued a report naming Sudan, North | | | | anthrax, just to name one secret project. There |
| Korea, Iraq, and Iran as countries known to be | | | | are many others ongoing, so it is logical to |
| developing dangerous biological weapons, but | | | | assume that the U.S. is experimenting with H5N1 |
| strangely, the Bush administration refused to put | | | | as a bioweapon, also.In the first year of his |
| China on the list, saying "there may be some | | | | administration, President Bush sent John Bolton to |
| 'friendly countries' with biological weapons | | | | ambush the BWC, and put in its place a biological |
| programs who would not be named."Given the | | | | weapons treaty that would place the U.S. above |
| reality of a Chinese bioweapon program, it is | | | | question by any country.With two superpowers |
| conceivable that a cell of young communist | | | | considering H5N1 as a secret bioweapon, and no |
| microbiologists, working within a weapons think | | | | vaccine in sight, the earth's population may |
| tank, have proposed the following scenario to | | | | suddenly find itself intentionally being thinned down. |
| government officials:Bird flu, or H5N1, is a readily | | | | After all, the planet's 6,446,131,400 billion people |
| available deadly pathogen. It is rapidly mutating | | | | are pushing the limits of sustainability. The risk of |
| into human-to-human transmission capability. | | | | getting caught in this thinning is very high. If H5N1 |
| Because bird flu is at the epidemic stage in | | | | is unleashed as a weapon, or it reaches pandemic |
| southeast Asia, it would be completely | | | | proportions on its own, it will be far more |
| transparent to the world if our labs were to | | | | devasting than a nuclear attack. |
| release a concentrated form of this virus on our | | | | |