Posted on 03/16/2020 9:51:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
While the media continues parroting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda in the face of the Wuhan virus, the Trump administration is firing back.
In response to the outrageous charge from a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson that the U.S. Army might have been behind the transmission of the Chinese coronavirus to Wuhan, the State Department Friday summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States.
CBS News reports that Ambassador Cui Tiankai met with Deputy Secretary for East Asia David Stillwell, wherein Stillwell corrected the record with what CBS’s sources described as “a very stern representation of the facts.” According to the report, State Department officials said the purpose of the diplomatic dressing down was “to put the government on notice we won’t tolerate it for the good of the Chinese people and the world.”
This escalation by the Trump administration followed growing efforts in recent weeks by Chinese officials and state-run media entities to delink the virus from China, obfuscate, and blame-shift about a global pandemic that originated on its shores, spread in no small part due to a Chernobyl-like response from its leaders, and for which it still has neither provided an accounting for the virus’s origin, nor allowed independent authorities to investigate it.
It must be seen as part of a growing, pivotal effort by the Trump administration State Department, along with the Department of Justice and others, to engage in the information sphere against a CCP that has taken advantage of our open society, while preventing us from participating in theirs.
The Trump State Department has sought to openly and honestly discuss the totalitarian nature of the CCP regime, while emphasizing a desire for cooperation over conflict on the basis of fairness, reciprocity, and balance, and firmly reiterating that America’s quarrels are not with the Chinese people but their dictatorial rulers.
As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo detailed in a November 2019 speech, “The Chinese Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist Party focused on struggle and international domination,” that “is truly hostile to the United States…” He also spoke of a desire for cooperation over conflict with a liberalized, rights-respecting China, while noting that it is “critical that as Americans, we engage China as it is, not as we wish it were.”
This address was followed by subsequent ones on the technological battle with China, and its efforts to exert influence over state and local government officials.
That the Trump administration is clearly laying out the points of contention with the CCP, and responding through actions and strategic communications, is vital. The message in this instance to the Chinese and other foreign powers is that slanders against Americans—whether in our armed forces or otherwise—will not be tolerated. Nor will hostile information operations go unchecked.
Coronavirus should crystallize the reality of the danger Communist-ruled China poses to the U.S. national interest, the necessity of forthrightly countering it, and the revolutionary effort the Trump administration has undertaken to reorient the relationship by putting America First.
I wouldn’t want to see a hot war with a nation of more than a billion people, but I certainly would like to see us crush China. They are not our friend. I see no reason to deal with them nicely or gently on any topic.
Ping.
The ChiComs are a LOT like the Democrat Party. They are levying accusation because they hope to muddle investigation into their own wrong-doing.
ChiCom leadership knows that once the immediate crisis passes recriminations will be coming from around the globe. They are making pathetic attempts to deflect it.
“The most promising drug to potentially treat coronavirus — Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir — is being given a second shot at clinical trials after three seriously-affected patients in the US treated with remdesivir recovered albeit with some side effects.”
How does the Chinese ambassador explain that the primary side effect after recovery was an overwhelming yen for Chinese food?
Trump talking about the ChiComs on Friday:
“They know where this originated. And so do we.”
A president or administration that stands up for the US and it’s citizens is anathema to the left.
That is why we must ensure that Trump gets four more years.
The world community must realize that China is a bad member as any communist regime is.
China is not ourpartner or ally in any way. They should be treated the same as Iran and North Korea. They need us much more than we need them.
There is a damn good reason for this Chinese propaganda.
Here it is:
China has been engaged in bio research espionage, stealing virus from Canada’s research facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Immunologist Dr. Plummer, a key witness in that case against the Chinese died in Kenya of a sudden heart attack, but the coroner’s report of cause of death has been left either undisclosed or undecided.
I hope you take the opportunity to read this well written summary,of how Chinese espionage and negligence caused the spread of Covid-19
“COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus”
To have been a fly on the wall :)
That and the Harvard incident, and now I hear about the Chi-Coms getting involve of in Convi research in NC in 2010, and the hits just keep on coming....
They are the enemy here pure and simple. We are reevaluating our relationship with them and there are going to be some big changes. That is one reason there is lots of uncertainty in the market.
+100!!
That Red army espionage is on a roll.
We will put them back in their box.
They are already screaming against the truth of what they have done with the Wuhan virus.
Chinese agents will soon become “persona non grata” all over the world. The entire world is highly suspicious of the Red Chinese now. That’s a good thing.
projection..
I agree completely with what you said.
I suggest you crawl back under your rock, as you are nothing but a troll
Or either you don't know what projection means.
If it's a "yen" rather than a "yuan" the PRC will blame the Japanese.
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