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China Escalates Disinformation Campaign Targeting US Amid Global Pandemic
Epoch Times ^ | 03/22/2020 | Bowen Xiao

Posted on 03/22/2020 1:44:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continuing to target the United States as part of an increasingly antagonistic disinformation campaign over its mishandling of the pandemic—now confirmed to have infected over 265,000 globally.

Over the past few days, as part of this anti-U.S. campaign, the CCP began pushing a new conspiracy theory, one that alleged the United States had access to the virus long before anyone because it was so swift in its development of a potential vaccine.

Regime officials and state-run media have amplified conspiracy theories on social media platforms such as Twitter, recently pushing claims including that the origin of the CCP virus isn’t clear, or came from the U.S. military. The majority of Chinese citizens don’t have access to Twitter, which is blocked in the communist country.

“The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic,” a commentator claimed on China Central Television (CCTV), the biggest state-owned television network in the country, without giving any evidence.

The host responded: “Basically unless you had obtained the virus strain even earlier.”

Meanwhile, a March 20 Twitter post from state-run media Xinhua referenced the scandal of a handful of U.S. senators who reportedly sold stocks after learning about the CCP virus. Xinhua used it to target President Donald Trump with the hashtag “#Trumpandemic.”

“The senators knew enough to dump stocks,” Xinhua’s post said. “How come President Trump seemed to have no clue about the severity of #COVID19? The president should know more & know better than senators. Was he pretending, or maybe he has too much stock to sell? #Trumpandemic.”

A Xinhua editorial on March 17 threatened the United States directly, stating, “The U.S. side should immediately correct its wrongful behaviors … before it is too late.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; disinformation; pandemic
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1 posted on 03/22/2020 1:44:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If it was us, we’d already have the vaccine before we dropped it. The Chinese didn’t care to have one; they don’t mind losing a few thousand or hundred thousand people. Their citizens have always been pieces of meat, to be disposed of as the state sees fit. So they turned Wuhan into a giant human incubator, hid it, and sent their infected bots out into the world to spread it.


2 posted on 03/22/2020 1:47:42 PM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: SeekAndFind

China is our enemy- plain and simple.


3 posted on 03/22/2020 1:48:14 PM PDT by datura
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To: SeekAndFind

And gee, the media was in cahoots with Pravda and Tass back in the mid 1980s when Reagan had the Soviet Union and East Bloc by the manhood because of SDI and also that that area was in serious financial and economic trouble. No problem, the media just parroted talking points from the Soviet agencies about how dangerous Reagan was and that people in Russia and the rest of the East Bloc did not want Western freedoms.


4 posted on 03/22/2020 1:49:56 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: henkster

BINGO!


5 posted on 03/22/2020 1:50:12 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: datura

China wants world dominance.
We think in terms of the next quarter of a year.

They plan for the next quarter of a century.

They are very slow and methodical.

It was nice of our politicians to sell us out to them to speed up the process.


6 posted on 03/22/2020 1:52:00 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank goodness Trump is president during these trying times. If Hillary were president, she’d be in Peking* right now begging for forgiveness (and collecting bribes).

* I called the Chinese capital ‘Peking’ merely to annoy any ChiComs who are monitoring American discussion boards.


7 posted on 03/22/2020 1:54:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

British press is all over this but add in our good friends the Russians.


8 posted on 03/22/2020 1:56:32 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Chicom virus


9 posted on 03/22/2020 1:58:04 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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>>>A Xinhua editorial on March 17 threatened the United States directly, stating, “The U.S. side should immediately correct its wrongful behaviors … before it is too late.”

quid pro quo!


10 posted on 03/22/2020 2:07:35 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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“The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic,” a commentator claimed on China Central Television (CCTV)

Wsit...we have a vaccine?


11 posted on 03/22/2020 2:09:25 PM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: datura

And we need to stop buying their crap.

We don’t have to wait for POTUS.


12 posted on 03/22/2020 2:10:42 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to show these little communist pr*cks who’s boss.
Using the Coronavirus as a pretext, close off the USA to all Chinese products, indefinitely.
Then watch them squirm.


13 posted on 03/22/2020 2:10:51 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: SeekAndFind

If you are not reading the Epoch Times you should be. I read the daily online version; my wife reads the weekly print edition. Fact filled, nonpartisan, lots of China coverage.


14 posted on 03/22/2020 2:12:28 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine the USSR doing this in the old Cold War days. Maybe this is a bad comparison but what if Taliban or Al Qaeda did this?


15 posted on 03/22/2020 2:12:51 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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16 posted on 03/22/2020 2:19:39 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Disinformation?! Say it isn’t so. They are just modeling the democRATS, who choose lying first, last, always. They push a lie with the Drive-By media, so much so that regular folk have trouble discerning fact from fake. These days, it is safer to assume fake, no doubt.


17 posted on 03/22/2020 2:20:29 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s my slant on it. Screw China.


18 posted on 03/22/2020 2:28:07 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: shanover
Oh, they had Uncle Walter do this sort of work concerning singing the praises of the Soviet government while many died from the 1930s famine in the Ukraine, a direct result of the Soviet liquidation of the kulak farmer class. See also my post number 4 for what took place during the Reagan years.
19 posted on 03/22/2020 2:33:29 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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“The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic,” a commentator claimed on China Central Television (CCTV), the biggest state-owned television network in the country, without giving any evidence.

Really? So where is this vaccine?

20 posted on 03/22/2020 2:43:10 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (In Hoc Signo Vinces)
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