A clear and present danger.

"China insists it has been fully transparent and hidden nothing on the killer coronavirus disease (Covid-19), whose international spread from Wuhan has turned into the greatest disaster of our time," wrote Prof Brahma Chellaney. "So, why is Beijing opposing an independent international inquiry into the origins and spread of the virus?" Why did China allow international flights out of Wuhan when it stopped domestic flights to the city? "Authorities shut a Shanghai laboratory a day after its publication of the coronavirus genome opened the global path to diagnostic tests." It destroyed lab sample of the virus instead of sharing them with the world. China's foreign ministry accused the United States of "lying through their teeth", reported Fox News. Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison said, "I don't think anybody is in any fantasy land about where it started -- it started in China. What the world over needs to know -- and there is a lot of support for this -- is how did it start and what are the lessons to be learnt." Seems entirely reasonable. Not to the Chinese Ambassador Chen Jingye though, who snarled, "Maybe the ordinary people will say, 'Why should we drink Australian wine? Eat Australian beef?'" China reacts aggressively if any nation objects to its criminal behavior. In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague found China in violation of international maritime law by claiming the entire South China Sea as its territory by an illegal 9-dash line on an old map drawn by the Communist Party. The state-run Global Times called the US and Japan "eunuchs" and "paper tigers" for supporting the judgement. "The president of the European Commission backed calls for an investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus and said China should be involved in the process." If China does not cooperate, countries will do their own investigations. "A research dossier compiled by the so-called 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance states that China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of lives lost around the world." A report by the Department of Homeland Security in the US says that "Chinese leaders intentionally concealed the severity of the pandemic from the world in early January" so as to "stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it". It 'disappeared' whistleblowers to cover-up evidence of human to human transmission. China is trying to manipulate news coverage of the pandemic by "upping its spy game on US soil", US officials said. It is directly interfering in Nepal to keep the communist government in power. The virus will pass, but China will still be here. A permanent danger to the world.