In November 2019 [day unknown] – six weeks before China admitted there was an outbreak in Wuhan, Wei Jingsheng, the father of China’s democracy movement and famous 1997 defector to America, warned US intelligence agencies of a mysterious new virus in China, spread at the time of the World Military Games. He told Sky News investigative reporter Sharri Markson this in September 2021.
Wei said he found out about the virus from high-level contacts in Beijing, and told intelligence officials who in turn seemed “not as heavily concerned as I was” stated Wei. [1]
Wei Jingsheng had spent 18 years in Chinese prisons for objecting to the Communist regime and following international pressure, was released and he reluctantly defected to the United States in November 1997.