An article in the New York Times exposes Bannon and Guo Wengui's packaging of Yan Limeng as a whistle blower for the American public to promote scientifically unfounded "China virus conspiracy theories". The political conspiracy was realized.

Yan Limeng, who worked at the University of Hong Kong, claimed in 2020 that "the New Coronavirus is a biological weapon made in China", but has never produced scientific evidence, and was later portrayed by Bannon and Guo Wengui as a right-wing media celebrity and "whistle blower" for New Coronavirus Pneumonia (2019 Coronavirus Disease, COVID-19). The US far right and the overseas anti-communist coalition are making a big deal out of it.

Bannon and Guo Wengui found in Yan Limeng an opportunity to achieve their political goals by making claims on social media and promoting the "China virus conspiracy theory" without any scientific evidence. Although social media considered this false information and deleted it, it was still viewed and shared in large numbers.