What is the actual threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) regarding bioweapons? Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think our defense posture relating to possible future threats would be high. That is not what my research reveals.

As background, let’s go back a few years to a secret speech given in 2003 by Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian to Communist Party leaders. His speech was not supposed to be made public, but it leaked. He said, in part:

Conventional weapons such as fighters, canons, missiles, and battleships won’t do; neither will highly destructive weapons such as nuclear weapons. We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with America by using nuclear weapons, despite the fact that we have been exclaiming that we will have the Taiwan issue resolved at whatever cost. Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio-weapons have been invented one after another. Of course, we have not been idle, in the past years, we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a sudden.

He went on to say, “It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century in which the CCP leads the world.” Think of that! The PRC defense minister called for the death of 200 million Americans!

What is our nation saying about this threat? Not much. The 2023 Biodefense Posture Review states that the Department of Defense will “Defend the homeland, paced to the growing multi-domain threat posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).”

It warns, “Chinese publications have called biology a new domain of war.” Regarding the means to make bioweapons, it reports, “The bulk of production, especially for key precursor materials, has moved overseas (especially to China).”

Also, “The PRC, Russia, North Korea, and Iran probably maintain the knowledge and capability to produce and employ traditional pathogens and toxins. These countries historically pursued … pathogens that cause highly infectious or contagious diseases, such as anthrax, plague, and toxins, including botulinum toxin. These nations probably also retain the knowledge and ability to employ these agents if necessary.”

The Review concludes, “The United States has compliance concerns with respect to PRC military medical institutions’ toxin research and development given their potential as a biothreat.” You think?

In the space of a 56-page report, there are 48 mentions of bioweapons in reference to China.

In a separate report in August 2022, the State Department said:

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continued to engage in activities with dual-use [i.e., civilian and/or military use] applications, which raise concerns regarding its compliance with Article I of the Biological Weapons Convention. In addition, the United States does not have sufficient information to determine whether the PRC has eliminated its assessed historical biological warfare (BW) program, as required under Article II of the Convention.

Based on leaked statements from Chinese officials, I think it is safe to say the PRC has not eliminated its biological warfare program.

According to The Heritage Foundation, reporting on the State Department’s April 2022 report, “China — which joined the Biological Weapons Convention in 1984 — possessed a biological weapons program from the 1950s to the late 1980s that should have been ended, diverted, or destroyed upon joining the convention. To this day, Beijing hasn’t acknowledged the existence of or current disposition of that Cold War offensive biological program, which weaponized ‘ricin, botulinum toxins, and the causative agents of anthrax, cholera, plague, and tularemia.’”

Furthermore, Heritage says, “The State Department reports that Beijing’s military medical institutions have published papers that discuss ‘identifying, testing and characterizing diverse families of potent toxins with dual-use [civilian/military] applications’ that could pose a biological weapons threat.”

Finally, “The State Department report also cautions that more information is provided in a ‘higher classification annex,’ meaning that there may be a slew of details that won’t be released to the public due to the analysis being based on sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”

Time Magazine recently reported that “on Jan. 25, 2025, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) weighed in, saying in a statement to reporters that the (COVID) virus is ‘more likely’ to have come from a lab.”

Of course, in response to the CIA’s new determination, the Chinese government denied everything. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said, “The U.S. needs to stop politicizing and weaponizing origins-tracing at once and stop scapegoating others.”

The Washington Post on January 26, 2025, reported, “Now Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department … in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely origin.” It is a matter of record that our government now admits that millions of U.S. dollars went to the PRC biolab in Wuhan, China.

As of mid-2023, the number of U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 was estimated to have been over 1.1 million. It’s almost a certainty that the PRC was responsible for this with aid from within the U.S. government medical establishment. While the virus getting out of the Wuhan lab may well have been accidental, the fact that such a virus was being developed is not a benign event. It is proof that the PRC is doing biological research designed to kill people, and we know from the reports that have leaked that they plan to kill a lot of Americans in order to conquer us and rule the world.

It is urgent for the U.S. to counteract the PRC’s plans to use biological weapons against us. Instead of business as usual, our policies must put maximum pressure on China to cease production of biological weapons and the means to deliver them. The PRC’s single biggest vulnerability is its economy. The U.S. should wage an all-out economic war against China. Its economy is weak and the U.S. economy is strong. We need to use our economic power to modify their behavior before the unthinkable happens and they truly and fully wage biowarfare against us.