linked article is as close as zerohedge has come to reporting on the Friday 3/11/2022 U.N. Security Council meeting... which is not very close. the issue is raised in a separate discussion between high ranking Chinese and U.S officials, but no mention in the article of the details of Russia's assertions during the meeting of the Security Counsel this past Friday:
"Now Beijing has upped the ante by amplifying Russian claims that the labs are part of a secret biological warfare research program.
Such claims are being circulated in the run up to a crucial meeting between Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, and Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, after it was reported Russia had asked China for military equipment.
“Xinhua, the official state news agency, on Sunday published a “satellite investigation”, posting satellite images of supposed US labs identified by Russia. Xinhua repeated Russian claims that the US was seeking to learn how to spread pathogens through animals,” reports the Financial Times.
“The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid, ran a story based on an article published in Russian daily newspaper Izvestia, in which an unnamed former Ukrainian official claimed that Ukraine had a network of military research facilities under the supervision of its security services and modernized by the US.”
update 12:43:00 3/14/2022
linked article is as close as zerohedge has come to reporting on the Friday 3/11/2022 U.N. Security Council meeting... which is not very close. the issue is raised in a separate discussion between high ranking Chinese and U.S officials, but no mention in the article of the details of Russia's assertions during the meeting of the Security Counsel this past Friday:
"Now Beijing has upped the ante by amplifying Russian claims that the labs are part of a secret biological warfare research program.
Such claims are being circulated in the run up to a crucial meeting between Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, and Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, after it was reported Russia had asked China for military equipment.
“Xinhua, the official state news agency, on Sunday published a “satellite investigation”, posting satellite images of supposed US labs identified by Russia. Xinhua repeated Russian claims that the US was seeking to learn how to spread pathogens through animals,” reports the Financial Times.
“The Global Times, a nationalist tabloid, ran a story based on an article published in Russian daily newspaper Izvestia, in which an unnamed former Ukrainian official claimed that Ukraine had a network of military research facilities under the supervision of its security services and modernized by the US.”
Full article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-amplifies-russian-claims-about-secretive-us-bio-weapons-research-ukraine
don't know the significance of zerohedge not having any reporting on the meeting... just know there is a dearth of detail online about it...
curious...
so far it seems that China and Russia are going to Good Cop / Bad Cop the issue.