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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by superzamp on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:48PM (#22206174)
Currently reading a (French) book regarding France-China industrial espionage and relations that was published well before the virus outbreak. Funnily enough, the author describes quite extensively how this P4 in Wuhan came into existence and all the subsequent problems faced by France to get China to honor the deal.

I quote/translate: "In the course of these fifteen years, China has several times failed to live up to their engagement, staying relatively vague about the existence of an offensive biological program. Chinese officials had, for example, previously certified they had no other P4 and no plans to build any, but we now know they do have many, some being quite suspicious, a France official said".

The book is "France-Chine, les liaisons dangereuses" by Antoine Izambard, for those curious.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by threeseed on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:03PM (#22206339)
As I mentioned in another thread. I worked at a facilities department at university with an infectious disease research lab.

We had incidents where there were system failures eg. Air filtration.

It can just be a simple accident that the China government is covering up because they know their population would turn on them.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by mc32 on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:50PM (#22206202)
They have to be naive as VW if they believed the CCP would honor the contract...
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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by superzamp on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:56PM (#22206275)
Yeah the whole thing is basically a shitshow. The majority of the French administration was against the deal as well as many other countries but the president at the time forced the deal to go through.
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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by hcheung on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:28PM (#22208170)
Would be an interesting read if there is an English version of the book available.
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