Updated: 10 Jan 2021, 13:45
CRUCIAL online data related to the laboratory suspected of being the source of coronavirus has been deleted - sparking fresh accusations of a cover-up by the Chinese government.
Hundreds of pages of information connected to studies carried out by the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology have been wiped alongside key data from a top virologist nicknamed Batwoman .
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology has wiped key data about their top-secret studiesCredit: AFP or licensors
More than 300 studies published by the National Natural Science Foundation of China - including investigations into diseases that transfer from animals to humans - are no longer available, The Mail on Sunday revealed.
Beware the red tide seeping into Western firms
Questioning the influence of the Communist Party over companies that operate in China is a basic act of self-preservation
This week, The Telegraph revealed that many Western firms are employing hundreds of members of the Chinese Communist Party. The information came from a list of nearly two million CCP members obtained by someone from a computer server in Shanghai, which was passed to the International Parliamentary Alliance on China and verified by Internet 2.0, a cyber-intelligence company.
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The Telegraph reported that the likes of HSBC, KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte are jam-packed with CCP members, the response among a certain class of self-styled China guru was: “So what?”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, leads other Chinese leaders attending the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee.
A leaked list of Chinese Communist Party members allegedly shows a New Zealand consulate staffer was a communist party member along with China-based employees of the ANZ Bank, which foreign affairs experts say is far from unusual. The list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, obtained by an international group of lawmakers called the International Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and Australian cyber-security firm Internet 2.0, does not show there are spies actively working to serve China s interests within organisations linked to New Zealand.