CHINA
China plays victim card as lawsuits over its handling of coronavirus grow
China on Monday played the victim card, calling on the United States to stop blaming the country for the global COVID-19 crisis, as pressure increased over Beijing’s mismanagement of the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 2.4 million people worldwide.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said during a press briefing that COVID-19 is a “common enemy of all manind.” He added that China was “also a victim,” and that the global community should work together instead of seeking a single source to blame.
FOX 9 hrs ago
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-lawsuits-handling-covid-19
lying conniving pandas. It’s been said that the ‘aid’ they gave to their citizens amounted to about $7 each. In the meantime, they’re still pouring concrete like there’s no shortage of materials, still badgering Hong Kong and Taiwan with police power and military maneuvers, and looking to buy up French, Spanish and Italian businesses failed from the pandemic at firesale prices to strengthen their foothold in those countries.
They act the fool with their left hand and shake a fist with their right.
GERMANY
China, Germany’s Bild in war of words after newspaper scorched Xi over coronavirus
China and the largest newspaper in Germany have been in a war of words, according to reports, over the role of President Xi Jinping in the coronavirus pandemic.
...Reichelt added: “You rule by surveillance. You wouldn’t be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country. You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.”
...China shot back with an open letter to Reichelt, denying the allegations and denigrating the paper’s “nationalism, prejudice, and hostility against China.”...
...It added: “We note that many countries now struggling with COVID-19 have had time to prepare for the cross-border spread of the pathogen after China reported its outbreak under IHR [World Health Organization] guidelines.”
does it sound, besides the obvious derogatories, that China is actually saying, it’s your own fault you had time to prepare?