Editor's note: John Gong is a professor at the University of International Business and Economics and a research fellow at the Academy of China Open Economy Studies at UIBE. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.

China Daily reported a week ago that a European biologist who is involved in the COVID-19 related work at the World Health Organization (WHO) blew the whistle that a recently established WHO advisory group on tracing the origins of the COVID-19 virus is nothing but a political sham orchestrated by the United States.

On July 16, the WHO announced the Secretariat was establishing the International Scientific Advisory Group for Origins of Novel Pathogens, which certainly includes the COVID-19 virus. On July 24, this biologist took to social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to express his worry about the "WHO's independence," and used the phrase "political tool" to describe this WHO advisory group.

More specifically, he said that some of his fellow researchers were under "enormous pressure" and "intimidation" from the U.S. and some media outlets after they voiced support for the conclusions of the China-WHO joint study on the origins of COVID-19 in central China's Wuhan city. That report asserted that the Wuhan Lab leak theory is "extremely unlikely."

It is pretty clear what is going on behind the scene at the WHO is the power politics, and probably money politics as well, perpetrated by U.S.'s WHO representatives for a politically-charged shenanigan to blame China, which the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is likely to be willingly accommodating, possibly for his reelection bid, as his five-year appointment is scheduled to expire next year. This is one possible suspicion, but there are also other possibilities of how Tedros will react to this U.S.-led scheme

Now it should be pointed out that since America's presence at the WHO was callously ditched by the Trump Administration at the height of the global fight against the pandemic, we must give credit to the Biden Administration for coming back to the WHO, which was one of the first few things it did at the beginning of 2021 after coming to power. But instead of footing its past-due bills and redeeming America's wanton abandonment of the world's premier joint platform for global health, it decided to pick up a totally unnecessary and guaranteed hopeless fight for something that was merely regarded by the majority of the world's medical community as a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

The chase of the Wuhan Lab leak theory by the U.S. Intelligence Community, which includes all of the 16 agencies under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is now becoming like a greyhound race to chase the flying windsocks that it will never catch. CNN reported on August 6 that right now some U.S. intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data drawn from virus samples studied by the Wuhan Lab. How did they actually get it? Well, CNN apparently suggested the online hacking version, by reporting the following:

"It's unclear exactly how or when U.S. intelligence agencies gained access to the information, but the machines involved in creating and processing this kind of genetic data from viruses are typically connected to external cloud-based servers -- leaving open the possibility they were hacked, sources said."

Biden has ordered the U.S. Intelligence Community to come up with any substantive evidence of the Wuhan Lab leak theory by the end of August. They have three more weeks left, and I wish the poor guys in Langley, Virginia (where the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters are located) good luck to dig out something useful.

What China has been saying recently constitutes a sharp contrast to what the United States has been busy caballing at the WHO. At the first meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation on August 5, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that President Xi Jinping announced that China aims to provide two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world and to offer $100 million to the global COVID-19 vaccination distributer COVAX throughout the year 2021.

I would not expect the White House to make that kind of generous contribution to the international community, but the U.S. government can save its windsock-chasing effort, and spend the effort to at least persuade more Americans in the South to get vaccinated. The daily infection number in the U.S. is again climbing back to a hauntingly scarring level now.

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