'Buildup for War': US Spins COVID Lab Leak Narrative to 'Pin Blame on China'

"There are several issues at play here. The first is that the entire COVID-19 project and the medical and general policy enacted in the United States and around the world has increasingly been subject to question. A lot of the policies are now being criticized through all sorts of legal actions being taken. There's a need to try and pin all this on somebody. And China, the 'rising threat' in Washington establishment chatter, is a nice place to pin it on," said Pastreich, president of the Asia Institute think tank, which he founded in 2007.

"I think there's clearly a split within the establishment, the military defense establishment, as to how to deal with this COVID-19 crisis.  Those looking for a solution ranges from those who want to pin it on the Chinese Communist Party, or who prop up the experts who say we need even more vaccines. And there are other people who are saying on the inside that this story is just not going to hold, that it has come time to clean house."

"This move is similar to the buildup for war, the attack on Iraq. They want create a false narrative. They express it in every possible media format. Perhaps in the back of the minds of those people deep in theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the [Pentagon] and at Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, they're probably thinking they'll use this as the lead-up for a major confrontation with China, which will both will kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand, you'll be able to pin all this stuff which originated with American-flavored multinational corporations, private equity, and multinational banks on China. The second is to use it as a way to create a new Cold War or even some sort of actual military conflict with China, which will allow them to stimulate the economy and to save the a**es of all these people who are potentially tearing the United States apart, by shifting to a military economy," Emanuel Pastreich told Sputnik.

"There's been a lot of discussion out there, the information is not classified, about DARPA and other private corporations developing both viruses and vaccines, as well as working together, in a corrupt manner, with the World Health Organization and with multinational drug companies. So clearly there is an incentive to try and pin all of this this mess, this transnational global finance mess spilling over from the pandemic, to pin it all on China, and specifically on the Chinese Communist Party," emphasized Pastreich, who ran as independent candidate in the 2020 US presidential election.