Japanese media article: don't politicize the origin of the new crown, which is related to the surviv

Original title: Japanese media article: don't politicize the origin of the new crown, which is related to the survival of all mankind
Reference News Network reported on October 2 that today's Japan network published an article entitled "don't politicize the source of the new crown". The article points out that it is necessary for us to find the source of COVID-19, but the source of the new title should be a scientific issue rather than a geopolitical game. The full text is excerpted as follows:
The novel coronavirus pneumonia has become one of the most fatal epidemics in human history, and is still evolving. As of June this year, COVID-19 has infected nearly 180 million people and killed about 4 million people. Not only that, COVID-19 has also greatly disrupted the global society and economy, and aroused political suspicion and tension among nations.
It is necessary for us to find the source of COVID-19, but the new source should be a scientific issue rather than a geopolitical game.
First, the joint investigation conducted by the World Health Organization and China should be respected. The earliest place to report COVID-19 was in Wuhan, China in December 2019, but that does not mean that China is the source of COVID-19. As everyone knows, the first AIDS patient was discovered in the United States in 1981, but scientists later traced the source of HIV to the chimpanzee and simian virus in Africa.
On February 9 this year, the who China joint investigation team held a press conference to introduce the preliminary findings of the four week field investigation. The 319 page joint study supported the theory of natural outbreaks, which clearly emphasized the possibility of COVID-19 being leaked from China's laboratory.
There is no doubt that China strongly welcomes this conclusion, and those who have always claimed that China is the "culprit" are not satisfied at all. However, if we cannot trust who, the highest authority of the United Nations responsible for international public health, who can we trust?
Secondly, we should oppose "double standards". Some western people including former US President Donald Trump called COVID-19 "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" directly. According to the same logic, shouldn't the swine flu virus be renamed "American virus"? The reason is that the swine flu virus was first found in the United States in early 2009, then quickly spread throughout the United States and even the world, and finally infected 700 million to 1.4 billion people, accounting for 11% to 21% of the world's population. Should the world claim against the United States for this?
Some US politicians deliberately ignored the findings of the WHO investigation and repeatedly asked for a new investigation into China. In the context of global new crown traceability, Washington vowed that the United States and its allies would "work together" and "exert necessary pressure on China", urging Beijing to become a "participant" and provide "transparent data and access".
However, a recent study by the National Institutes of health showed that COVID-19 probably spread in the United States as early as December 2019. Therefore, if it is really necessary to carry out new global traceability, the focus should be on the United States rather than China. In fact, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has publicly urged the Biden government to investigate the relationship between the United States and the new crown source, and urged the Biden government to investigate the U.S. biological laboratories, especially the fort Detrick army laboratory.
Third, we should welcome cooperation rather than confrontation. It is distressing to mistake COVID-19 for "China virus" or "Asian virus", which has led to the emergence of xenophobia against Chinese and Asian Americans in the United States and other western countries.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, earth shaking changes have taken place and great progress has been made under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. However, the suspicion and hostility of the west towards China have never disappeared.
COVID-19's global crisis has provided a valuable opportunity for cooperation. To be optimistic, it is never too late to move forward hand in hand, especially considering that the world is still suffering from the epidemic.
As the first step of cooperation, we should not politicize the origin of the new crown, because this scientific work is related to the survival of all mankind and should not become a geopolitical game between major powers.