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Hiding Information: The CCP Tried to Silence Dr. Yan Li-Meng and Discredit Her after She Spoke Out

Dr. Yan Li-Meng, who specialized in virology and immunology at the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, came to the U.S. in April 2020, to inform the world that the Chinese government knew as early as late December 2019, that the coronavirus could be transmitted from person to person.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) discovered that she had left, it did many things in an attempt to stop her from telling her story. Once she spoke, it attempted to discredit her so nobody would believe what she said.

#1. During her interview with Fox News, Dr. Yan said the Chinese authorities swarmed her hometown of Qingdao and that agents ripped apart her tiny apartment and questioned her parents. When she contacted her mother and father, they pleaded with her to come home, told her she didn’t know what she was talking about and begged her to give up the fight.

The University of Hong Kong, which is under the influence of the CCP, took down her web page and revoked her access to online portals and emails, despite the fact that she was on an approved annual leave. The university sent a statement to Fox News, claiming, “Dr. Yan Li-Meng is no longer a staff member at the University.” (Fox News)

#2. (Unconfirmed) An online account reported that the Fox News’ interview with Dr. Yan was originally planned to be released on July 9. However, someone (it may have been Cui Tiankai, China’s Ambassador to the U.S.) made eight phone calls to relevant offices (to stop the release). Xi Jinping called the White House four times. Xi threatened, “This interview must not be broadcasted. Otherwise there will be consequences.” (Sound of Hope)

#3. The University of Hong Kong denied that Dr. Yan had done research on person-to-person transmission at the university from December 2019 to January 2020. Its web page stated: “University of Hong Kong noticed that some relevant report did not match the key facts that we understood. Actually, from December 2019 to January 2020, Yan Li-Meng did not conduct any research at the University of Hong Kong, on the person-to-person transmission of the novel coronavirus that she mentioned in her interview.” (Hong Kong University website).

#4. A news commentator pointed out on Twitter that the University of Hong Kong’s statement was a fallacy and a shift of the actual meaning. The University of Hong Kong’s statement only said that from December 2019 to January 2020, Dr. Yan didn’t conduct coronavirus research at the University of Hong Kong. It didn’t confirm or deny that Dr. Yan did anything outside of the university. In fact, Dr. Yan said in her interview that in December 2019, she contacted her network of medical contacts in China to gather information, because the CCP blocked information from coming to Hong Kong or other overseas researchers.

After the statement from the University of Hong Kong, the CCP media expanded its comments to such statements as. “Yan Li-Meng Has Never Conducted Research on Person-to-Person Transmission of the Novel Coronavirus.” (Sound of Hope)

Related postings on Chinascope:

1. Source: Fox News, July 10, 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-virologist-coronavirus-cover-up-flee-hong-kong-whistleblower

2. Excerpt in Chinese:

据自媒体“路德社”爆料称,本来这个新闻是9日要播出的,因为有人(没透露是谁,可能是崔大使之类)打了八次电话(给相关部门),另外一个人打了四次给白宫,这个人就是——习近平(习主席)!

习恐吓道,“这条访谈一定不能播出,否则后果自负。”

Source: Sound of Hope, July 11, 2020
https://www.soundofhope.org/post/399853

3. Excerpt in Chinese:

港大留意到有關報道內容與我們理解的關鍵事實並不相符。事實上,閻麗夢在2019年12月至2020年1月期間,從未在港大進行她在訪問中重點提及的有關新冠病毒人傳人的研究。

Source: Hong Kong University website, July 11, 2020
https://www.hku.hk/press/c_news_detail_21274.html

4. Excerpt in Chinese:

时评人士唐靖远在推特上分析说:闫丽梦在福克斯的采访中清楚表明,她是从自己在中国疾病预防控制中心的专家处获取到病毒的关键信息,而港大声明却将注意力放在澄清“‘阎丽梦’在2019年12月至2020年1月期间未在港大进行有关新冠病毒人传人的研究”上,是“明显偷换概念”。

他还提出,港大在声称闫丽梦未进行有关新冠病毒人传人的研究时,刻意强调了时间区段:

“港大为何要精心设定闫丽梦研究病毒人传人的时间区段?因为闫丽梦5月14日参与研究发表在《自然》杂志的论文,核心就是通过研究证实了金仓鼠之间存在中共病毒的气溶胶传播,这是该病毒在人传人领域的重大突破之一。”

他说:“港大精心设定时间区段并明显偷换概念——党媒大标题立马跟进:闫丽梦从未进行”新冠病毒人传人研究”。

Source: Sound of Hope, July 13, 2020
https://www.soundofhope.org/post/400336