Hillary would have sold us out in an instant. Again, thank goodness Trump is president.
Posted on 03/21/2020 10:53:00 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Covid19: Made in China pandemic
SAMIR SARAN 20 March 2020
WHO, Medicines, Pandemic, COVID, Coronavirus, WTO, World Order, Economic System, Geoeoconomics Getty Ever since he assumed the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has repeatedly announced the Middle Kingdom’s intention to occupy a position of global influence by the middle of the century. Over the past eight years, China has steadily manouevered itself into leadership positions in international institutions, has deepened its stranglehold over global supply chains and has animated old and new geopolitical conflicts. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan and China’s domestic and international response to this pandemic has forced the world to confront the grim realities of Chinese leadership.
Research indicates that had China taken proactive measures to contain and suppress the pandemic earlier in December 2019, the number of #Covid19 cases could have been mitigated by up to 95 per cent. We now know that the opposite happened: local authorities in China suppressed information about the outbreak, even destroying proof of the virus sometime in December. Official censors scrubbed social media posts from medical professionals warning of a new “SARS-like” disease. And as late as mid-January, Chinese authorities denied evidence of any community transmission, allowing the lunar new year celebrations to proceed despite having known about it for at least a month.
As a political regime centred around the absolute inviolability of the Communist Party, China’s domestic reaction should surprise nobody. In many ways, the CPC’s international response reflected the idiosyncrasies of its domestic politics. China delayed notifying the WHO and in permitting it to inspect the situation in Wuhan; released vital genetic information to the international community a full week after it was isolated; and allowed millions of individuals from Wuhan to leave the city unscreened, many of whom then travelled the world. Countries which received much of that traffic are now grappling with more deaths than they can handle.
We know that China was certainly aware of the scale of the health crisis: in the early days of the outbreak, General Secretary Xi was conspicuously missing from state media reports, despite claiming to have addressed the Party about the outbreak in early-January. This would have happened only because of the uncertainty surrounding China’s efforts to contain the virus. He was made the focal point of the response after his ‘Ides of March’ visit to Wuhan when the CPC was confident that it had the situation under control.
On cue, China’s international response changed gears. The prevailing theme that now dominates Beijing’s state-controlled media is one of China “buying time” for the international community to react—a claim that attempts to deflect attention from the CPC’s and the Chinese State’s failings. Laughably, Chinese officials now appear to be engaged in an authorized and concerted misinformation campaign, with several diplomats and even the MFA spokesperson ludicrously claiming that the US Army was responsible for smuggling the ‘Virus’ into Wuhan.
Beijing’s industrial prowess and control over critical supply chains, including medical supplies, have also added a geo-economic element to the pandemic. It has raced to be seen as providing public goods when other powers are faltering. Like the proverbial Fifth Horseman who is hard to please, past experience informs us, however, that aid and largesse from China is highly contingent on limiting criticism of China and refraining from trying to hold it accountable, leave alone answerable for its many sins of omission and commission. The Belt and Road formula has gone viral – literally.
Beijing’s industrial prowess and control over critical supply chains, including medical supplies, have also added a geo-economic element to the pandemic. It has raced to be seen as providing public goods when other powers are faltering.
To put this in context of the Covid19 outbreak, China’s ambassador to the Philippines threatened to retaliate by cutting imports if Manila did not lift its travel ban in early-February, despite an overwhelming global consensus that restricting travel would contain the spread of the virus. In March, a Xinhua editorial loudly hinted that China may withhold life-saving medical supply chain ingredients from the US amidst the deadly outbreak should political tensions rise.
Barely three months into a new decade, the international community is now confronted by a prolonged public health emergency whose contours and impact are not even vaguely known at the moment. An equally paralysing and fearful consequence is the global economic slowdown as a direct result of China’s irresponsible domestic and international behaviour. A less than inspiring response to the outbreak in the US and much of Europe will likely whitewash China’s offences against the international community in the short term, but the long term implications will last.
After China’s entry into the WTO, scholars asked whether China would be a “responsible stakeholder” in the international system. While the answer has been definitely negative for some time now, China remains well-positioned to claim leadership over the forces of globalisation and the norms and institutions to manage a new wave of connectivity. The right question to ask now is: Can China be a responsible hegemon?
After China’s entry into the WTO, scholars asked whether China would be a “responsible stakeholder” in the international system. While the answer has been definitely negative for some time now, China remains well-positioned to claim leadership over the forces of globalisation and the norms and institutions to manage a new wave of connectivity.
The US was confronted with this question as well in the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War. The international order Washington built and sustained with its allies was certainly not equitable or just. But it was organised around the basis that the common interests of the American people were dependent on the well-being of the international community. It could be argued that the US too was a hegemon and the world lived under American hegemony. Yet it was an accountable hegemon, constrained by American democratic traditions and open to corrective pressure at home and abroad. Its democracy in the words of some was allowed to be penetrated by others including foreign interests and its policies were shaped and sometimes gamed by external actors who could lobby the Congress, engage with its media and be part of the academic and research ecosystems.
China’s global interests, like its domestic interests, stem from a primal survival instinct: preserving the legitimacy, upholding the authority and ensuring the continuity of the omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent Communist Party. The global outbreak of the made in China novel coronavirus irrefutably demonstrates that the CPC is more than willing to endanger the health of the international community to promote Beijing’s irresponsible hegemony.
As the world irrevocably drifts towards isolationism as an instrument of survival and the Iron Curtain makes a reappearance rebranded as ‘Lockdown’, there couldn’t be a more dismal and grim start to a decade that will increasingly be defined by China’s amoral leadership.
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Your excerpt is too long. It hurts my eyes. :)
Regardless, the title sound. This virus is the Chinese Virus. More specifically, it’s the ChiCom Virus. Ditch that ‘COVID-19’ numerical nonsense. The world needs to say this instead: “It’s the ChiCom Virus.” Period.
Thank goodness Donald Trump is president. He is telling it like it is.
chicom virus - bump for later.....
PotUS is gonna gut these bastards.
Hillary would have sold us out in an instant. Again, thank goodness Trump is president.
FakeNewsMSM have a friend in Wikipedia yet, even there, the Made in China narrative is EVIDENT - search each link for Wuhan or China (not forgetting Italy, the northern region being a virtual colony of China):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_South_Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Germany
reverse chronology - ends with the following for 16 Jan, so read from bottom up:
21 Mar: BerlinSpectator: Chronology: Germany and the Coronavirus
This is what happened since January 16th, 2020
By Imanuel Marcus
Thursday, January 16th, 2020 Coronavirus cases: 0
A Chinese lady in Shanghai welcomes her parents from the Wuhan region.
https://berlinspectator.com/2020/02/04/chronology-germany-and-the-coronavirus/
20 matches for Italy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Spain
In the mean time China is going to head into round 2 as they opened up thousands of their tourist attractions.
If you’d like to read how pissed people are about them and this article . here’s a link to the comments.
https://www.facebook.com/143666524748/posts/10158856331749749/?d=n
Read the comments about China here. Social media wants to string em up.
https://www.facebook.com/143666524748/posts/10158856331749749/?d=n
more evidence of China’s influence in Italy:
6 Nov 2019: Xinhua: Chinese police officers join Italian police for joint patrol
Chinese and Italian police officers held a ceremony here Tuesday to launch the fourth joint police patrol between the two nations.
Many guests attended the event, including Chinese Ambassador to Italy Li Junhua, Director of Italy’s International Police Cooperation Service Giuseppe Spina, and Deputy Director-General for Public Security Vittorio Rizzi, according to the Rome municipality’s public information office.
Speakers at the conference shared the idea that the exercise would help strengthen ties between China and Italy, particularly in the area of law enforcement...
China’s Ministry of Public Security said 10 Chinese police officers will join the Italian police for a three-week joint patrol in Rome, Milan, Turin and Padua, to help handle cases and incidents related to the safety of Chinese travelling or living in Italy...
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/06/c_138533328.htm
Reuters and Guardian don’t blink! too bad for any Chinese dissidents in Italy:
2 May 2016: Guardian: Reuters: Chinese police to patrol Rome’s streets
The officers will work with Italian counterparts to help Chinese tourists
Chinese police are joining Italian officers on the streets of Rome and Milan in an experiment aimed at helping tourists from China feel safe, Italy’s interior ministry has announced.
The experiment is the first of its kind in Europe, China’s ambassador to Italy, Li Ruiyu, said at a meeting to announce the project, according to a statement from the Italian ministry...
The four Chinese officers, who were trained by Italians in Beijing, will wear the same uniforms they wear at home so their compatriots can recognise them easily.
More than 3 million Chinese tourists come to Italy every year, according to Liao Jinrong, the director general of the Chinese international co-operation bureau.
“This service was planned with Chinese tourists in mind and, if it works well, we may consider other forms of collaboration, given the presence of the Chinese community in our country,” said the interior minister, Angelino Alfano...
Liao, the head of the Chinese international co-operation bureau, said the officers’ assignment was a “historic moment” recalling that the route between China and Italy was mapped 700 years ago by Venetian merchant traveller Marco Polo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/chinese-police-to-patrol-the-streets-of-rome
I dont know what you are so worried about?
Everything made in China lasts about 3 weeks and then you have to buy another one.
So we just about reached the use by date.
Seems as if Italy’s government made the country a de facto Chi-Com colony. No wonder The Chi-Com virus is wreaking havoc there. Do you think the joint police exercise has anything to do with taking the virus into Italy (November 6, 2019)?
That’s insane.
Sixty years ago, Masses had a prayer for the freedom of people in the Captive Nations (the Baltic States).
Let us now pray for the people in Captive China.
Adjutorium in nomine Domini.
We are at war. Few people know.
Its undeclared bio-warfare.Its the art of war without going to war....right out of Sun Tzu’s art of War.
The Red Chinese did everything they could to obscure COVID-19 and information related to the outbreak, covering it up when the Red Chinese first encountered the virus in November.
Read it right here:
Its all about China’s bio-warfare espionage conducted world wide, including control of the WHO :
Very thorough and organized. Lengthy and organized historically. Its just the way of India’s academic approach to some issues in journalism.It is updated as more facts come to light. Their premise at first seems far fetched, but the array of facts just keeps slowly accumulating
Their outline:
Contents
1 South China Seafood Market: the controversial “source of epidemic”
1.1 The Internal Circular
1.2 Destroying the “Crime Scene”
1.3 China CDC’s Statements
1.4 The explosive Lancet Papers
1.5 Diagnostic Criteria
2 Virological Evidence: Gene Variation in Wuhan New Coronavirus COVID-19
2.1 E Protein
2.2 The Zhoushan virus
2.3 S Protein
2.4 Molecular Evolution Clock & Recent Common Ancestors
3 Shi Zhengli: Mystery of cross-species Coronavirus infection
3.1 Special relationship between S protein and ACE2 receptor
3.2 Key to Coronavirus Cross-Species Infection
3.3 Academic Controversy
3.4 New horseshoe bat virus RaTG13
4 Pangolin Mystery: the sudden “intermediate host”
4.1 The Special Pangolins
4.2 Do Pangolin Coronavirus infect Humans?
5 Wuhan Institute of Virology: the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak
5.1 The Sino-French Collaboration
5.2 China’s Secret Biological Weapons Program
6 GreatGameIndia investigation on Coronavirus Bioweapon
6.1 White House Coronavirus Task Force
6.2 Coronavirus Bioweapon
6.3 Assassination of Frank Plummer
7 GreatGameIndia Coronavirus Coverage
READ AT LINK:
Red China has advanced a huge attack on think tank Great Game India’s credibility , saying their facts are debunked. I see nothing that has been actually debunked in their reporting. You have to remember that Indian journalists have been working to expose Red Chinese subterfuge for a very long time, since about 1949.This is not their first “rodeo,” given Chinese pressure on the Sino-Indian border and the propaganda Red China has published over the years to justify Red China’s expansionist agenda, resulting in border conflicts in the Sikkim area, for example, and other border conflicts involving India’s military and Red China’s support military support of Pakistan.
So I am reading what Great Game India has written about the COVID-19 issue with an open mind. It bears watching.There is a lot going on between our country and China behind the scenes.China refuses to allow US medical teams to visit Wuhan, despite repeated attempts. I suspect that President Trump knows the truth of the matter. He certainly is acting that way on several fronts.
The Red Chinese pown the WHO as a part of their world wide bio-warfare initiative.
In this instance, China has become a financial winner, buying up stocks and other investments at bargain basement prices and avoiding losing the Trade War with President Trump or at the very least postponing the trade war.
Freeper Fred Nerks points this out via referencing this article:
“Did China Panic the World and Steal Our Wealth with a Common Cold?”
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