Is China Aiming to Blame America for the Coronavirus?Now fostering the insinuation that this virus originated in America

PJ Media ^ | 03/03/2020 | Claudia Rosett

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Having brought us the global breakout of a killer coronavirus, China's Communist Party dictatorship is now fostering the insinuation that this virus originated not in China, but in America. Mind you, China's President Xi Jinping and his CCP flunkies have not so far adopted this Orwellian lie as the official line. But there's a growing blame-America stench now wafting from China's state propaganda mills. American authorities need to pay close attention, and do everything in their power to push back, as China's commissars begin bioengineering a narrative to blame this contagion on others.

On Feb. 27, China's state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) broadcast a segment in which one of China's most prominent epidemiologists, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, speaking about COVID-19, opined that "the infection was first spotted in China, but the virus may not have originated in China." This was not some casual, private remark. Zhong was speaking at an officially hosted press conference in southern China, whence state-run media obligingly broadcast his statement. What we have here is an officially showcased insinuation, seeding the ground already prepared by prior state propaganda.

Zhong's suggestion that "the virus may not have originated in China" followed an article published on Feb. 22 by China's state-run, English-language Global Times, under the headline: "Japanese TV report sparks speculations in China that COVID-19 may have originated in the U.S."

This article was a masterpiece of groundless innuendo -- propagating and expanding on rumor, while pretending merely to report it. The Global Times began by stating that suspicions aired by a Japanese TV station were "stoking fears and speculations in China that the novel coronavirus may have originated in the U.S." The Global Times went on to report that this story had "sparked various conspiracy theories in Chinese cyberspace."

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the Global Times offered in detail a sample conspiracy theory, blaming not only the U.S. in general, but the U.S. military in particular:

"The Military World Games were held in Wuhan in in October. 'Perhaps the US delegates brought the coronavirus to Wuhan, and some mutation occurred to the virus, making it more deadly and contagious, and causing a widespread outbreak this year,' a user posted on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo."

When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refuted the gist of the Japanese story, the Global Times effectively doubled down. Instead of just printing the refutation, the Global Times updated the entire story, adding the refutation at the top, but reprinting in full the conspiracy theory blaming the U.S. military.

[ClearCase_guy]

Wet Market in Wuhan
Biowarfare Lab in Wuhan
It evolved
America did it
Russia
Ukraine
I don't know

[Pearls Before Swine]

Sure. Maybe it originated in the US, was researched in Canada, stolen and sent back to the Wuhan lab by Chinese researchers, as one line of speculation has it. Whose fault?

[RummyChick]

I have been waiting on China to blame it on the US ever since I found that article that a scientist here was able to merge SARS and a Chinese Bat into a living organism. (or whatever the scientific term is for what he did)

And furthermore, someone here may have given Iran an idea to blame it on those yahoos that secretly met with officials. okay, really not from reading FR but they still might come up with the idea. It is a good propaganda idea. CIA might want to try it.

[Harpotoo]

Anyone here believing this crap? Anyone in the world believing this crap? I don’t think so!

[RummyChick]

Zerohedge has info about the Harvard guy who was arrested. In that article is info about someone trying to smuggle virus in a sock.

It could have gone exactly as you describe.

Perhaps someone stole it... tried to develop it further...and it accidentally escapes.

Still China’s fault.

[null and void]

It's odd how a certain class of people consistently blames others for what they themselves have done...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[RummyChick]

The weird thing about this is that in the Dean Koontz book it was first Russia. I think he consider Ukraine in the revamp but decided on Wuhan.

Art imitating life.

[thoughtomator]

Yeah there have been rumors this was actually stolen from a Canadian lab by the Chinese.

I just can’t shake the feeling that the US government knows a lot more about the origin and nature of this virus than it is letting on. At the same time there is little doubt the Chinese are to blame and that they will owe us big time for the damage they’ve done.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Agree.

I’ll have to look for the article on what Lieber was doing. My understanding was that he was an expert in nano-technology. Stuff that would be useful in batteries and materials, but also in interfacing electronics to biological systems. Why would he have a virus in a sock?

[RummyChick]

The virus in the sock is not from the Harvard guy, IIRC..but I skimmed the article so could be wrong.

[Black Agnes]

It’s why I’m concerned that they will ‘retaliate’ by releasing an even worse one in CONUS.

[tired&retired]

It did originate in America.

In the virus research lab in Winnipeg where they stole it.

Their spies were fired in July.

[BBQToadRibs]

And because no one wants to offend China and be “racist”, there will be no calling out or pushback.

[1Old Pro]

It’s not COVID-19 or the Corona virus, it’s The China Virus.

[RummyChick]

When that Canadian Dr died suddenly in Africa I read up a little more on the Canadian lab.

The lab is indicating that this virus is not part of that incident. They are still investigating it.

That said, I just take what officials say with a grain of salt...maybe true..maybe not...especially our CDC

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RE: It did originate in America.

In the virus research lab in Winnipeg where they stole it.

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Well, technically, it originated in Canada.

If you want to use the word “America”, then NORTH America.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Here's a good link on that: Virii in a sock

That's probably the article that was re-sourced on ZH.

[tired&retired]

Try this one

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/mystery-surrounds-ouster-chinese-researchers-canadian-laboratory