As mysteries continue to swirl around the balloon and three other so-far-unidentified objects shot down by the US in recent days, at least one thing has been clear: the weaponry used to knock them out of the sky.
Chinese FM spokesperson questions U.S. biological labs globally
Xinhua
11 May 2021, 02:44 GMT+10
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday that it is hoped the United States could give the international community an honest, transparent, and responsible explanation for questions concerning its biological laboratories worldwide. Hua Chunying made the remarks at a press briefing when asked to comment on an obtained document describing SARS-coronaviruses as heralding a new era of genetic weapons. According to a report by The Weekend Australian, the U.S. State Department has obtained a document written by Chinese scientists and officials as it investigated the origins of COVID-19. The document states that SARS-coronaviruses is a new era of genetic weapons that could be artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before.