Posted on 03/18/2020 5:25:51 PM PDT by bitt
While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, China is fighting a propaganda war. Beijing’s war aim is simple: shift away from China all blame for the outbreak, the botched initial response, and its early spread into the broader world. At stake is China’s global reputation, as well as the potential of a fundamental shift away from China for trade and manufacturing. Also at risk is the personal legacy of General Secretary Xi Jinping, who has staked his legitimacy on his technocratic competence. After dealing with the first great global crisis of the 21st century, the world must fundamentally rethink its dependence on China.
After months of staying holed up in the Forbidden City, Mr. Xi finally ventured to Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus, to declare victory over the virus as all the makeshift hospitals have been closed. Yet no one knows if Beijing’s claims that new indigenous cases are slowing down are true or not, given long-standing doubt about the veracity of any official Chinese statistics, and the party’s failure to act in the early days of the coronavirus.
The communist government instead is claiming that it has largely controlled the epidemic, even as it suspiciously now blames “foreign arrivals” for new cases of virus. Leaked video from China shows huge lines at a hospital in Chongqing, for example, raising questions about just what is happening around the country.
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Good!
Whaaaaah!!
President Trump is pretty insistent about calling this a war.
We should have never been dependent on ANY communist country.
Bush-Clinton-Bush-Usurper are responsible.
Don’t forget Nixon!
Well... you can see where their priorities lie.
Sold out all these years! We will come out stronger! Ready to Rock!
I’m thinking the horse already left the barn.
Mr. Xi’s ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus gets a foot hold in the homeless/druggie/illegal communities in our West and East coast metro areas, before naming it.
To hell with the currency manipulating, IP thieving, fentanyl pushing, garbage producing chicoms scumbags.
Covid-19 is the new “flu” here today and perhaps to stay as it mutates. Will we be dealing with it from here on out (like we do with flu) as it mutates. Is eradication even on the table?
I can’t think of one piece of Chinese-made cr@p that I NEED in my life.
Oh, wait. My HP computer was probably made there. :(
This NEEDS to be a turning point for America. If it’s not made HERE, as an American, you don’t NEED it.
Ya think?
I'm hoping most of the countries in the world don't even bother showing up at the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
He did start it, but I don’t know how far he opened the door. Bubba still gets the honors in my book.
I'd say that's a safe assumption. Their lies and threats show they do not play well with others.
The Chinese are lying their butts off when they claim that the worst is over, and that they’re now reopening factories and are back to business. Just keep an eye on the Johns Hopkins graph that is tracking the number of new cases in China vs. the rest of the world. China’s line (based on their highly suspect self-reporting) looks to have plateaued, and is now trending downward, while no other country on Earth shows anything but a continuing exponential, hyperbolic increase. By now, if China’s claim is accurate, some of the other countries should be showing similar downturns, but that’s not the case.
Must expose fully during this campaign Joe Biden’s (and Hunter’s) corrupt connections to the ChiCom regime
Sleepy Joe is clearly China’s candidate - lock, stock and barrel.
This virus could help globalization. It could get the populist leaders out of office in their next elections. It could end up give globalist leaders a strong position.
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