Posted on 04/01/2020 2:27:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
China is facing a public relations catastrophe that is only likely to deepen, writes Sky's diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn.
We've long known about the dangers of a wild animal virus leaping the species gap and ravaging humans and so have the Chinese.
They have been told repeatedly about the risks posed by their animal markets for decades.
In 2005, we filmed secretly while being offered pangolins, rare lizards and snakes in an endangered animal restaurant in southern China.
Year in, year out since, the Chinese have been warned by virologists that it was only a matter of time before a new lethal virus was unleashed threatening a global pandemic if the status quo was preserved.
And yet the restaurants and markets have remained open.
Making matters worse, once that nightmare scenario came to pass, the Chinese appear to have tried to cover up their outbreak at first.
Doctors were punished and persecuted for reporting it. Some of them have died.
And according to reports this weekend, the British government has been told the Chinese may have lied about the extent of their own outbreak by a factor of 40.
Precious time was lost for other countries to prepare for the virus and when they did, it seems it was based on fudged figures and dodgy data.
The Chinese government appears to have indulged in a Kremlin-style disinformation campaign too.
China is facing a public relations catastrophe that is only likely to deepen.
Western countries have their populations on lockdown, their economies frozen or in freefall, and the country where the virus most likely originated is suspected to have lied, covered up and spread misinformation about its role.
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For a lot of governments around the world, Chinese cash will cover up no end of Chinese deceit.
When this passes the USofA should create tax incentives to bring manufacturing back to America and DESTROY China.
“We make everything better and faster.”
They also need to fire that Ethiopian doctor who heads WHO and serves as a front man toady for the Chinese government in facilitating the spread of the virus by repeating China’s lies.He is completely incompetent
The CCP of China NEEDS to face the music!
Only problem with this is that the coronavirus did not originate in the animal market. The referenced bats are 900 miles away. What is only blocks away is Chinese bio research lab that was playing with coronavirus and taken over directly by the military once the virus got loose.
This really all started at a biological lab in Wuhan,China.
Canklebeast Clinton is deeply saddened.
The bio labs have to be run by its military.
Tedros, that’s him with Xi in the OP. They both deserve to get it.
Really? Why is SKY still shopping the discredited wet market cover-up story? Obviously, even the Chinese populace no longer believes it, hence the unrest.
Damn right.
That country breaks all sorts of rules, whether it is hunting protected animals, their markets which are unclean, and the clean air etc.
Yet the left always gives them a pass
It’s the wet markets they have. 3 out of the 4 major virus’s have come from there.
It’s about time. China will ALWAYS own this one.
I heard on the radio this AM that the wet market has re- opened.
They may have brought animals from the bio lab to the wet market.
I suspect China doesn’t care. They make cheap stuff that the west is addicted to(cheap goods) and most western nations are too cowardly to take serious retaliatory measures and anyone who tries....China has nukes.
The American consumer needs to make it clear to the ChiComs that our government is the LEAST of their problems.
Right, and just happened to by accident be released when our economy was at a peak...and still climbing, just finishing kicking China’s butt on trade, and PDJT’s approval was at a peak and climbing further...oh, yes, no conspiracy theory is valid...all mistakenly released, because their weapon research was meant to be used at a different way and a different time...
Sarcasm for those Freepers from Rio Linda.
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