Swell.
From the Daily Mail, October 24:
Chinese scientists have discovered never-before-seen viruses lurking on a tropical island — and warned they could infect humans.
Researchers tasked with preparing the world for future pandemic took almost 700 samples from rodents living in Hainan, just off China's southern coast.
Eight novel viruses — including one belonging to the same family as Covid — were uncovered in the project, funded by the Chinese Government.
Experts said the discovered pathogens had a 'high probability' of infecting humans should they ever cross the species barrier.
As a result, they called for further experiments on the viruses to determine exactly what their effects on humans could be.
Researchers took almost 700 samples from rodents living in Hainan, just off China 's southern coast
They found eight novel viruses, including one belonging to the same family as Covid
The findings were shared in the journal Virologica Sinica, the publishing arm of the Chinese Society for Microbiology (CSM).
CSM is linked to the state-affiliated China Association of Science and Technology, which 'accepts administrative supervision' from the Chinese Government's 'Ministry of Civil Affairs'.
Virologica Sinica is also edited by Dr Shi Zhengli, an influential scientist described as China's 'bat woman' who works inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology – considered to be the source of the Covid pandemic in some corners.
The journal's editorial board also features over a dozen other academics linked to the WIV....
....MUCH MORE
Hainan is also the reason I didn't make millions off bootleg editions of Xi Thought:
February 2019
China’s most popular app is a propaganda tool teaching Xi Jinping Thought"
Of course it is.
Back in August, when posting "China to require patriotism education for intellectuals " (and the rise of "Xi thought") I asked my favorite Chinese translator if there was a way to make money off this.
He said he was sure there was and he'd talk to his wife who has some first rate Beijing connections.
I didn't think any more about the idea until a couple weeks later with "The Little Red Book vs. the Big White Book (Mao v. Xi)" I asked again what his thinking was and he responded that the fam wasn't sure there would be a market for Xi Thought.
Then in November while posting "In Xi We Trust: Inwardly Directed Chinese Propaganda (now with more elephants)" I asked again about maybe making a bucko or two off Xi Thought.
It was then that my interlocutor told me about the time his wife talked him out of buying a pretty nice chunk of Hainan island, which over the last couple decades has been developing nicely and is now poised to take on Shenzhen as a tech hotspot* and I asked "What the Hell? "Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"
And he said that out of a desire for marital harmony he didn't mention it any more, especially after Hainan Airways started running direct flights from Beijing to San Jose International a few years ago.
And now this....
...And not being a cruel sort I didn't mention my hope that Hainan Air would start a direct flight from San Jose to Haikou International on Hainan so folks wouldn't have to change planes in Beijing when traveling Silicon Valley to Sino-Silicon Valley.
See China Speakers Bureau, Jan. 14 "Can Hainan become China’s Silicon Valley? – Jim Rogers".
Which brings us back around to CGTN, this time July 20, 2020:
Wang Yi calls for greater effort in promoting Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy
I hate Hainan island.
