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The Chinese 'paper' or 'document' referred to in this report may lead the reader to think this is a leaked document from Chinese military, but in fact it's a published book and here is its full text if ANYONE is interested to know about this 'secret'. https://gnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/%E9%9D%9E%E5%85%B8%E9%9D%9E%E8%87%AA%E7%84%B6%E8%B5%B7%E6%BA%90%E5%92%8C%E4%BA%BA%E5%88%B6%E4%BA%BA%E6%96%B0%E7%A7%8D%E7%97%85%E6%AF%92%E5%9F%BA%E5%9B%A0%E6%AD%A6%E5%99%A8-1.pdf https://twitter.com/australian/status/1390682836630265860
In effect, you don't have to be someone from the US State Department to get hold of this prized 'document'. Nor do you have to be a cyber expert to verify 'the authenticity of the paper.' Anyone can 'locate its genesis on the Chinese internet'. If you want a hard copy,
it's still available from the Chinese online bookstore Dangdang, though the price has somehow had a 10-fold increase (from 50RMB to more than 500RMB). http://search.dangdang.com/?key=%B7%C7%B5%E4%B7%C7%D7%D4%C8%BB%C6%F0%D4%B4%BA%CD%C8%CB%D6%C6%C8%CB%D0%C2%D6%D6%B2%A1%B6%BE%BB%F9%D2%F2%CE%E4%C6%F7&act=input
And many Chinese readers have posted their various comments on this book here: https://book.douban.com/subject/31716230/
And many Chinese readers have posted their various comments on this book here: https://book.douban.com/subject/31716230/
While in the book "Chinese military scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses" (the title of The Australian report), but the title leaves out the crucial information: they discussed the possibility of other countries' or terrorists' weaponising SARS coronvairuses.
It reads like a conspiracy theory book, but it got this wild idea from the author Xu Dezhong's accidental discovery of Michael J. Ainscough's 2002 paper “next-generation bioweapons”, which predicted 'the Third World War... will be biological' full text: https://fas.org/irp/threat/cbw/nextgen.pdf
Xu was really spooked by this 'discovery'. Out of shock, he added Chapter 4 '当代基因(人制人新种病原体和致病基因)武器及其施放‘ (Contemporary Genetic [New Species of Man-Made Pathogen and Pathogenic Gene] Weapons and Their Release) to the book at the last minute (see Preface).
But this Australian news report somehow attributes that prediction to the 'Chinese document' which 'predicted a third world war would be fought with biological weapons.' Now this report, and the new book 'What Really Happened in Wuhan', effectively did what Xu Dezhong did
to the Ainscough paper. While Xu used a US military paper as a smoking gun to argue the 2003 SARS inflicted on China was a foreign conspiracy, this report and the new book use Xu's book as a smoking gun to argue COVID-19 might be China's inside job. It has now come full circle.
