China’s Lies About COVID-19 Has Put the World in Danger, Says US Intelligence Agent

As the COVID-19 cases have soared in recent days, three of the US intelligence officials said China misinformed the world by allegedly intentionally underreporting the number of its affected patients and fatalities. In a classified report which the White House received, the officials alleged that the public record of the pandemic of China was purposefully incomplete, not to mention, deceptive.

Bloomberg, the first media firm to report the news, referred to three US intelligence agents who, they say, last week, forewarned the White House about the misleading numbers of Beijing. Also according to the officials, 2 out of 3 sources "called the figures flat-out fake."

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While there have been disbelievers all along, the decision of China to downplay its figures could have a fatal impact on the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, the immunologist of the State Department, Deborah Birx's advised to White House on its initiative regarding COVID-19 said early this week that the number of China influenced assumptions in other nations about the nature of the said infection.

Based on the interpretation of the data from China Birx said, this was serious, although smaller than any individual expected as she thought they were missing a considerable amount of data, now that what's seen which happened to Italy and also seen happening in Spain.

And, since the onset of this pandemic, the Chinese nation has been accused of having so many coverups. It has changed its "timeline on what it knew," and when it did, it has gone after doctors, whistleblowers and critics attempting to "sound the alarm."

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Recently, China launched a synchronized campaign to strengthen its global image. Specifically, the country has rebranded itself, sold supplies to strongly-affected nations struggling to combat COVID-19 within their territories, and attempted to start its economy.

Meanwhile, according to a counterintelligence expert, Greg Barbaccia, "The thing better than portraying the role of a victim" is exhibiting that they can appear as a strong and irrepressible hero.

Barbaccia, who has been spending 5 years "on active duty as the US Army's intelligence sergeant." He claimed that China has taken advantage of the present economic landscape, utilizing it for their benefit as nations like Iran and Italy struggle.

More so, China is said to have clogged up its frequencies touting the success of the country in refining COVID-19. Besides, the country pledged millions of dollars to the World Health Organization (WHO), and in return, has received compliments from the public.

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Meanwhile, a report from the United Nations (UN) praised China because, according to the said report released middle of this week, China shared the "genetic sequence of" the infectious illness.

However, it did not highlight that the Chinese officials did not report their first confirmed COVID-19 case until they are forced to and that the written report later disclosed that it was aware of the danger of COVID-19 two months before they reported it.

Had China been upfront from the very beginning, officials say this pandemic "could have been contained."