Weaponizing the Nipah Virus: Rapidly Accelerating Strategic Risks Inside the Chinese Communist Party System

Table of Contents

Weaponized Zoonotic Pathogens and Other Biological Weapons: Core Elements of the CCP’s Standard Order of Battle | Pages 5

There Are No Civilian Labs in China Under the CCP: Civil-Military Fusion and National Security Law | Pages 6

Did the CCP Attempt to Convert COVID-19 Into a Strategic Opportunity? Evidence from The First Half of 2020 | Pages 8

Overt CCP Strategic Maneuvers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Clear Strategic Intent | Page 9

Frontline South China Sea: Strategic Testing Ground for Bioweapons Deployment? | Page 9

Blurring the Line Between Civil and Military in the Maritime Domain | Pages 10

Inferring Strategic Intent from the CCP’s 2020 Actions | Page 11

Bioweapons Converge with the Cybersecurity Domain: CCP Strategic Hacking Operations Inside the United States in 2020 | Pages 12

CCP’s ‘Three Warfares’ Strategy and Combined Arms Warfare | Page 18

Previous Proven GoF Research on Nipah Virus: High-Probability Bioweapons Research With (At Least) International Awareness at the Wuhan Institute of Virology | Pages 19

August 2022 LayV Outbreak: PLA in Command (Via Front Organizations), Anomalous Infection Patterns with Likely Human Experimentation | Pages 21

The Wuhan Institute of Virology: Track Record of Conducting Synthetic Biology Experiments with the Bangladesh strain of Nipah Virus from at least 2019 to 2023 | Pages 24

The CCP is Actively Engaged in Additional Nipah Bangladesh Virus Vaccine Efforts Utilizing Military Technology | Page 25

Some Chinese Work is Focused on the Less Lethal Nipah Malaysian Strain, But is Being Conducted in BSL2 Labs Under High-Risk Conditions | Pages 25

Joint Sino-Pakistani Scientific Teams Use Cutting Edge, Advanced Immunoinformatics Techniques to Create Vaccines for Langya Viruses | Pages 28

The Demonstrated Geospatial Distribution of Nipah Virus Indicates China is an Unlikely Location for a Natural Human Outbreak | Pages 30

The WIV and Shi Zhengli (At Least) Officially Acknowledged Clear Interest in the Nipah Virus in December 2019 | Page 35

The Langya Virus and the 2014 Mojiang Virus Isolate Tongguan1 Have Unusual Homologies, Consistent with Recombination (Either Naturally or in a Laboratory) | Pages 35

The PLA’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences Actively Patented Therapies for SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, Marburg, and Nipah Viruses | Pages 36

WuXi AppTech and WuXi Biologics: The Commercialization/Operationalization Arm of the CCP’s Next-Generation of High-Risk Nipah Research? A Direct Pathway into the United States? | Pages 39

WuXi AppTec Shareholding and Ownership Structure | Pages 44

Pairing Weaponized Pathogens (Like Nipah) with Nanoweapons: China's Invisible Arsenals and the Emergence of Next-Generation Biowarfare | Pages 46

Emerging Nanotechnology and Biological Warfare Fusion: Evidence from the PLA and CCP-Run ‘Civilian’ Institutions | Pages 48

Combined Biological and Cyber Weapon Swarms: ‘Frontier Research’ Conducted at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the State Grid Electric Power Research Institute | Pages 49

Hefei Institute of Physical Science (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Develops Nanorobot Capable of Conducting Biological Sieges | Pages 51

The Student Becomes the Master: The CCP’s Bioweapons and Nanoweapons Programs Are Now Domestically Self-Sufficient | Pages 52

The New Master Trains New Students: Current Status of the CCP-Led WIV-DESTO Bioweapons Program in Pakistan | Page 53

What is the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences? Like WIV, It Is Not a Civilian Operation | Pages 53

CCP’s ‘Lift and Drop’ Bioweapons Options for DESTO: GoF Research on SARS-CoV-2/Zika/MERS Viruses, Developing Purely Synthetic Viruses in the Lab | Pages 54

The Pakistan Army’s Use of Terrorist Groups Generates Bioweapons Down-Streaming Risks, especially with Lashkar-e-Taiba | Pages 57

The Full Investigation, Assessment, and Elimination of the joint WIV-DESTO Program Needs to be a Top International Priority | Pages 59

Existential Risks Escalating within the CCP System: Historically Unprecedented Threats Emerging | Pages 59-62