COVID-19：米教育省、武漢研究所とテキサス大の関係調査：コウモリの研究/石正麗（動画）：
Education Department investigates University of Texas ties to Wuhan lab：
教育部调查德克萨斯大学与武汉实验室的关系
米教育省：
テキサス大学に対し、｢中国の武漢研究施設とのやり取りに関する文書｣を提供するよう求めた。
｢新型コロナウイルス感染の起源になった可能性がある｣として、米当局が調査している。
武漢研究所：石正麗
- 中国科学院武漢ウイルス研究所
- コウモリの研究で知られる研究者、石正麗氏
から提供された物品や記録の提出を求められた。
これは、｢テキサス大学が不正な財務情報を開示した可能性がある｣との、調査の一環として行われました。
WSJ
https://jp.wsj.com/articles/SB10459078868700564633604586357612665244864
Education Department investigates University of Texas ties to Wuhan lab
The Department of Education revealed
that it is scrutinizing
the University of Texas’s financial ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology as part of its broadening investigation of foreign funding by China and other countries on U.S. campuses.
Reed Rubinstein,
the Education Department’s acting general counsel,
sent a seven-page letter to University of Texas Chancellor James Milliken on April 24, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, with the government saying
it did not have confidence that the school had reported all of its foreign contracts, including with the Wuhan lab, as required by Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
The letter said
the University of Texas’s Medical Branch is responsible for the operation of the Galveston National Laboratory,which, in turn, has
“substantial contractual relations” with a maximum biocontainment laboratory, or MCL, in Wuhan, China.
That lab is owned by the Chinese government’s Chinese Academy of Sciences.
State Department cables in 2018
warned about biosecurity and management problems at the lab.
The U.S. intelligence community
is currently investigating whether the novel coronavirus originated in a wet market or through an accidental release from the lab.