Internal emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently obtained by U.S. media through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), has cast a spotlight on the longstanding relationship between an epidemiology professor at Columbia University and China. Walter Ian Lipkin, a Columbia professor known as a “virus hunter” for his long career in studying infectious diseases, wrote to Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in May 2020 and appears to thank the official for publicly rejecting the possibility that the virus leaked from a lab. “We deeply appreciate your efforts in steering and messaging,” Lipkin wrote on May 5, 2020 (at page 706 of the emails). A day earlier, Fauci told National Geographic that the evidence “strongly indicates” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, a pathogen that causes the disease COVID-19, “evolved in nature and then jumped species,” and dismissed the lab leak theory. It is …