A Critique of The New York Times' Attack on Dr. Li-Meng Yan: Tactics Now Infinitely Close to Those of the Chinese Communist Party

The New York Times is truly becoming more and more like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—not only has it degenerated into the CCP’s mouthpiece, but even its tactics are now infinitely close to those of the CCP. 

I just read The New York Times' article attacking Dr. Li-Meng Yan, published on December 7, titled "How Wife's COVID Bioweapon Theory Tore Apart These Married Scientists."

The entire article does not refute what's wrong with Dr. Li-Meng Yan's theory that the CCP created the COVID virus as a bioweapon, or why it doesn't hold water, and so on. Instead, it takes the perspective of Dr. Yan's husband and tries to portray her as a neurotic madwoman, manipulated and controlled by Trump supporters to the point of disowning her family, abandoning her home, and single-mindedly spreading "conspiracy theories"...

What a quintessentially "CCP" tactic. If they can't refute your article or theory, they smear your reputation, strip away your credibility, and make you look like a lunatic, so that no one believes anything you say anymore. Then, the next step is for the CCP to slowly deal with you and make you completely silenced.

If this were really just a case of a scientist couple breaking up due to differing views, or any other reason, with the wife leaving home and cutting off contact with her husband, is this the kind of thing worth The New York Times, this "century-old newspaper" that has repeatedly won Pulitzer Prizes, digging into and reporting on? Aren't there countless couples in the world who fall out and become enemies? Just because she "abandoned" her husband, The New York Times can't stand it?

Why don't you dig into where this virus that caused countless family tragedies around the world really came from, how it spread to the entire world, how many families were shattered and people died due to the CCP's cover-up, how many businesses went bankrupt and closed, how many people were locked in their buildings by the CCP to starve or die of illness—and instead, you care about Dr. Li-Meng Yan's "marital relationship"?

And moreover, you even interviewed Dr. Li-Meng Yan's mother, who is under the CCP's tight surveillance in China? Without the CCP's arrangement, is that even possible?!

So, The New York Times, you want to speak for the CCP, help the CCP cover up the origin of the COVID virus, yet you use such a "CCP" tactic, turning the "story" into a "family tragedy" to "inadvertently" ruin Dr. Li-Meng Yan's "persona," thereby making everyone believe that the CCP didn't create the virus—isn't that exactly it?

Do you think this tactic can fool a three-year-old child?

Furthermore, according to Dr. Li-Meng Yan's own revelations, her husband has long been a person of the CCP. Before she planned to flee Hong Kong to expose the origin of the CCP virus, he had already tried to kill her in three different ways to stop her from revealing the truth.

Leaving aside whether the claim of "three different methods of attempted murder" is true or not, just looking at how her husband is now pretending to be so innocent, using The New York Times to try to portray Dr. Li-Meng Yan as a "mad housewife," I believe Dr. Yan's basic judgment of her husband is correct.

Imagine: if a husband truly loved his wife, and his wife was in danger and had to flee, even if for the sake of his own career he didn't want to join her in exile, he could remain silent, or quietly support her, or part ways decently.

Don't you realize that your wife not contacting you, or you not being able to contact her, means she has already decided to sever ties with you completely? Yet you think that by accepting an interview with The New York Times and saying something like "I just want to know how she is," she will "suddenly wake up" and "reunite with you"?

A "wife" who has resolutely cut off contact with you for nearly six years—you confess in The New York Times how much you "love her," and she'll just return to your arms? Is this hypocrisy or stupidity?

Neither. This is the inevitable result after The New York Times' tactics have become communized. The CCP’s favored method of “destroying someone’s reputation” requires exactly such a storyline.

My question is this: 

In the newly released 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, it explicitly mentions restoring and strengthening the Monroe Doctrine, emphasizing America's national interests and sovereignty. So, for institutions, groups, individuals, or media (like The New York Times) that are based on U.S. soil yet constantly act as thugs for the CCP everywhere, helping the CCP hunt down dissidents who have barely escaped to the U.S., shouldn't the U.S. government come up with some ways to deal with them?

12/9/2025