In the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, before most Americans knew where Wuhan was, I concluded that the Chinese Communist Party was lying. In early 2020, China reported the outbreak of pneumonia around Wuhan to the World Health Organization and claimed it had been.

However, the Chinese government continued to engage in severe lockdowns and isolation around Wuhan, building field hospitals from scratch, hoarding protective equipment (such as face masks and surgical gloves), and even manual crematoriums around the clock. The government's actions are not entirely confident because it can control the situation.

I use simple common sense, not scientific knowledge or confidential intelligence, to answer the bell sound on the Wuhan coronavirus. I have never made the claims of the Communist Party of China with its superficial value. When their actions contradict their words and they start to cover up important information about the outbreak, I know they are not good.

However, when I made some common sense observations in the early days, you would think I committed an unforgivable sin with the hysterical reaction not only from China, but also from the American defense attorney. In any case, they tried to silence me and suppress my thoughts.

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First, I advocate banning travel from China to the United States. In phone calls and letters to Trump administration officials and in public statements, I urge this common sense step; after all, China has imposed its own travel ban on Wuhan.

But Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, criticized the proposal as "culturally insensitive", and Joe Biden denounced the ban as a product of "hysteria, xenophobia" , after President Trump stopped traveling from China.

Both Biden and Fauci will reverse the route. It is worth noting that it is not both of them wrong- they are often wrong, but their first instinct is to leaps through communist China's defense and attacks its critics. This is far from an isolated incident.

Next, the Washington agency rebuked me and others for calling the virus "Wuhan Coronavirus", "Chinese Virus" or "Wuhan Flu". I never understood the controversy. After doubting where the origin is, there is a long history of naming the pandemic and the virus. West Nile virus, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, Ebola virus and Zika virus are just a few examples.

But if this custom offends communist China, then anger will follow. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the terms "absolutely wrong and inappropriate." Nancy Pelosi House Speaker said they "make all of us less safe", and Senator Chuck Schumer called them "harsh, annoying and paranoid" .

Major newspapers and news networks responded to the scolding. After Joe Biden became president, he banned government employees from using these geographically accurate terms. The double standard is clear, and it once again benefits China.

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Finally, I became one of the first most indescribable national leaders to say the pandemic: the virus may have escaped from the lab. Again, this common sense observation should not be controversial. Wuhan is home to China's highest risk "super lab" where researchers studied the bat-based coronavirus - the lab's main researchers are actually nicknamed "Ms. Bat."

In addition, two years ago, U.S. officials warned in the laboratory that this is related to China's long-standing laboratory safety history and public health crisis, which is very consistent with China's long history.

Meanwhile, bats do not live within 100 miles of Wuhan, and the Wuhan "wet market" does not sell bats or dress, and the Chinese Communists regard it as the culprit. Not surprisingly, an early report by Chinese scientists found that the first known case had no contact with the market. In short, all the evidence from the beginning points to a lab leak.

Of course, Chinese Communist Party officials condemn me. The Chinese ambassador to the United States condemned me for being "absolutely crazy". "It is very harmful, it is very dangerous to incite suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people." For good measure, he added immorally that the theory will inspire "racism" and " xenophobia”.

Similarly, the top researcher of Wuhan Laboratory (and the secretary of the Laboratory Communist Party Committee), he believes that I "deliberately mislead people." I expect the Chinese Communists to have no doubt.

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But the indignant cry was as bad as the American elite, especially in the media. Washington Post, New York Times, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and Twenty-Seven Scientists in Prestigious Medical Journal All condemned the laboratory’s hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory.”

Huffington Post Written a pair of articles titled “Don’t Listen to Coronavirus Senator Tom Cotton” and “Senator Tom Cotton’s Still Theory of Coronavirus.” "Virus researchers say there is little chance that the new coronavirus will be released as the result of (a) laboratory accidents in China or anywhere else," NPR announced.

In a hurry to attack and silence me, Chinese defense lawyers are cautious, curious and basic facts, which they slowly and reluctantly acknowledge. About a year later, The Washington Post quietly edited its article titled "Tom Cotton Continuously Repeating the Conspiracy Theory of the Coronavirus that has been debunked, replacing the "conspiracy", And they are respectively "exposed", "exposed", "edge" and "controversial". Other news outlets added editorial notes to their articles and published a soul search exam on how the media made the story so wrong.

By 2023, the Department of Energy, the FBI and former CDC directors announced that they also suspected that the pandemic had begun in a laboratory; the CIA would join them in two years. In 2024, even the New York Times A post titled "Why the pandemic may start with 5 key points in the lab."

However, the Communist Party of China has never appeared. I continue to tell the truth about communist China and take charge in the Senate. In August 2020, China responded to my sanctions on me, and I still wore the badge of honor.

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These scenes begin with the pandemic in the early 199th period and reveal some broader truths about China. First, the Communist Party of China lies frequently and constantly. Not surprisingly; the Chinese Communist Party is not much different from the Russian Communist Party, which lied throughout the Cold War.

But secondly, Communist China can reliably rely on numerous American apologists to defend this defense far more than Soviet and Russian could count on. These shillings are everywhere: business, politics, media, Hollywood, professional sports, colleges and beyond. The third and most disturbing thing is that they not only defend China, but also attack and try to keep critics silent.

They often succeed. Although more than three-quarters of Americans have a (just) unfavorable view of China, they still don’t often hear all the cases of Chinese Communist Party’s crime and evil. China has silenced many American elites, celebrities, athletes and politicians. They are worried about losing their jobs, contracts, investors, status and more. It is best to remain silent.

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These fears can also affect millions of ordinary Americans. If I had been a private citizen and had the same thing I did about China as a senator, my employer might have told me to cut it out and if I don't, I'd fire me. Social media may also silence me. After all, China’s sympathizers have ruined the occupations and livelihoods of many Americans, causing fear and silence in our country.

The dangerous reality is that there are certain things you can't say about China.

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Excerpted from Tom Cotton from “Seven Things About China.” Copyright of Thomas B. Cotton 2025. Published under the license of Broadside Books and HarperCollins Publishers.