The did that because they wholly intended for this to spread around the world. I am afraid that is the harsh truth of the matter. They needed to stop Trump.
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I think you are over analyzing this episode. You could be right but I’m betting against it.
What Xi desperately needed was to hide the fact that China was Ground Zero for the virus. So the WHO delays, the virus spreads to the U.S. and Europe and then everywhere and muddies the water on the original source.
The delay helped him try to do that. But it failed. Very naive of Xi to think he could pull this off. To me that speaks to his desperation. Not everything is about Trump.
Well neither one of us has any absolute truth. So its all about gut feeling.
Whatever the motivation, it seems to me that Senator Cotton has been right about the CCP’s culpability.
He’s quoted in the linked article:
“...it’s clear to me that, once China realized how deadly this virus could be to some people and how contagious this virus was, that they made the conscious decision to let it get outside of their borders. They didn’t stop international air travel. They pressured countries not to impose travel restrictions,”
It’s not yet time to hold the CCP’s feet to the fire, but that time is coming. This is nothing less than an attack, by a hostile foreign power on, not just the US, but the entire world.
They must not be allowed to avoid justice for this. And president Trump is the man to lead the charge.
But what is the character of China?
Is it a lazy panda, or a stinging hornet?
Does it passively sit back, preferring to live and let live, having equal regard for all nations and cultures?
Or does it deliberately send its operatives into every access point of our nation—infiltrating the thoroughfares of government, finance and media—metaphorically on the verge of plunging its CCP flag into our soil like some sort of deadly, virulent quill?