--- type: Topic title: China relations and data access description: "Cooperation with, or obstruction by, Chinese authorities and access to Chinese data." tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 160 sources: - { id: baric_ti, resource: /sources/baric-ti.md, title: Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-23 } - { id: cbp_release, resource: /sources/cbp-release.md, title: CBP Release Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: daszak_cbp, resource: /sources/daszak-cbp.md, title: Daszak CBP Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: letter_dni, resource: /sources/letter-dni.md, title: Chairman Paul Letter to DNI Gabbard, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2025-10-30 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Cooperation with, or obstruction by, Chinese authorities and access to Chinese data. Tagged on **160** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 34 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 27 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 14 documents * [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 12 documents * [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 7 documents * [Robert Eiss](/people/robert-eiss.md) - 4 documents * [Lawrence A. Tabak](/people/lawrence-a-tabak.md) - 3 documents * [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) - 2 documents * [Christina Salazar](/people/christina-salazar.md) - 1 documents * [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) - 1 documents * Kristian G. Andersen M - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2005-10-09** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "He was in Beijing with Jim during the Tianman Square incident." [^diary_prequel] * **2008-03-19** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "At dinner we discussed frankly a wide variety of topics including: War in Iraq; his recent trip to Africa; his dealing with various Heads of State; the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing and why he really must attend despite the current misbehavior of China…" [^diary_prequel] * **2014-06-24** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Gave 2 minute "Big Idea "during Opening Ceremony and was on panel on Emerging IDs with Tom Frieden and Yu Wang of China CDC." [^diary_prequel] * **2020-05-11** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "Need to feed the 'Eddie is a paid shrill of the Chinese Government' angle to Fox News for a presidential tweet." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-22** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (asserts): "I'm the BBC Correspondent based in Beijing... and have, of course, been covering the outbreakof sars-covid-2 here in China since early this year." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-24** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "Although CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government, what she said rang true to me." [^slack_pm] * **2020-05-24** — [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) (questions): ""CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government" Lot of that going around these days - I wonder if the 9 foot green spacewomen would be able to discern the difference with Fox Spews or any other Murdoch related garbage." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (questions): "@Andrew Rambaut have you had a look at the Beijing genomes?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (questions): "I have a hard time believing it has been circulating undetected for quite a while inBeijing, so could it be a virus than went human > animal > human?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (questions): "I wonder which of those Beijing is going to blaim?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "Curiously all of the others in the Beijing group are from late March or early April." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "In basements all over the world people will be looking at Google Maps and drawing straight lines between the fish market and the China CDC head office in Beijing." [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "You probably saw it but here is the ML tree (with an outgroup root): [shared file(s): beijing_11.ml.tree.png]" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (questions): "Is it really possibly Beijing has had an outbreak for quite some time?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "Plausible: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/global-report-beijing-covid-19-cluster-may-have-begun-amonth-earlier-china-health-chief" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (questions): "But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-06-18** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (questions): "> But there was no coronavirus in Beijing so why would you need to wear masks?" [^slack_pm] * **2020-09-01** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "I don't believe there was enough SC2 around in Beijing for 6 out of their 273 patients even to have multiple exposures of radically different viruses, let alone actually become infected." [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-01** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "Zhang has now been booted out of China CDC and is now full-time in Shanghai." [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-01** — [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) (asserts): "> Zhang has now been booted out of China CDC and is now full-time in Shanghai." [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-25** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "The paper got decent reviews at Nature Microbiology but the Chinese authorities are not letting them publish it because of the loss of face the first time around." [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-26** — [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) (asserts): "Would be good to get out the bit about pissing off the Chinese Authorities!" [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-30** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "Atworse it means that the China CDC must have known earlier which will throw the shit badly on them, particularly George." [^slack_pm] * **2020-10-30** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "In addition, as you know, what I do is to analyze the genome sequences from BGI and China CDC." [^slack_pm] * **2020-11-02** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (asserts): "In addition, as you know, what I do is to analyze the genome sequences from BGI and China CDC." [^slack_pm] # Matching terms High-confidence: `chinese government`, `china cdc`, `beijing`, `data sharing with china`, `chinese authorities` Supporting: `china`, `chinese`, `sequences withheld`, `database`, `taken offline`, `cooperation` # Sources [^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md) [^cbp_release]: [cbp_release](/sources/cbp-release.md) [^daszak_cbp]: [daszak_cbp](/sources/daszak-cbp.md) [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^letter_dni]: [letter_dni](/sources/letter-dni.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md) [^slack_pm]: [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)