Posted on 04/17/2020 9:31:21 AM PDT by Aquamarine
China committed an 'act of war' by covering up the scale of its early coronavirus outbreak for six weeks, a leading economist has claimed.
Danielle DiMartino Booth, an author and chief executive, said Beijing officials were aware of the deadly disease spreading in Wuhan last November and allowed it to snowball into a global pandemic.
She said Chinese officials had countless lives on their hands and should be hauled before an international court as their 'under-reporting' did not afford the rest of the world time to prepare for an onslaught.
The economist points to a 'pandemic clause' in the January trade deal between Washington and Beijing, which she believes is evidence the Communist regime knew the extent of their crisis while publicly downplaying it. Her blistering attack, made on the Valuetainment YouTube show, came as Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, revised the city's official death toll to add nearly 1,300 fatalities.
She told host Patrick Bet-David that reports of a virus in Wuhan emerged in November, and that six weeks later on January 15, Washington and Beijing signed a trade deal in which she claims China preempted the pandemic.
In an agreement which ended the bitter trade war between the world's two economic powerhouses, Xi Jinping would buy $200million of American goods and Donald Trump would ease tariffs on Chinese exports.
But DiMartino Booth said that buried in this deal was 'an out-clause, a very clever out-clause that the Chinese made sure was in there.'
She continued: 'That said if there was any act of God, a pandemic, then they didn't have to make good on what they'd committed to buy from the United States.
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“so sorry”
It wasn’t an act of God - more like an act of mad scientists who were apparently funded in part by the US Congress from the money provided by the unknowing US taxpayer.
Nuke em
They need to settle down. No one’s going to war with our great great friend Xi.
Interesting. I think a clause like this is somewhat normal for an agreement this large and we would have wanted it also though.
While I am suspicious about China and always assign an ulterior and nefarious motive to their actions, I will reserve judgment until there is more information as something like this was likely in the first proposed draft long before the pandemic. If it was a last minute addition Robert Lighthizer will tell us as he worked on every part of this deal for years.
bttt
It’s an act of war. But no one is going to war because you probably couldn’t field any large scale army or keep a navy afloat for long. What we can do is turn the world against China. We just have to keep digging.
I think this pandemic may have been intentional. It didn’t make any sense to me that it was intentional until now and given that China has filed a patent for Remdesivir. This pandemic is all about money. Introduce a pandemic and profit off the cure.
The entire world needs to disengage from China economically.
We are making them rich and they are using that wealth to build their military to take over the world.
This provides a perfectly good reason to cut them off from civilized nations.
Tiananmen was another one but GHW Bush decided otherwise.
She may be an economist but she isn’t a lawyer. Any decent contract of this complexity will have a force majeure clause. And just because one side invokes it doesn’t mean the other side has to automatically agree.
I believe her.
Great body of evidence.
May I lend a hand?
Everyone in the Pentagon knows that China is AT WAR with the United States: Cyber, Diplomatic, Informational, Economic, and Military. They continually operate at a level just below provoking kinetic response.
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” -Carl von Clausewitz
“It is the pinnacle of victory to win without fighting” -Sun Tzu
“But no one is going to war because you probably couldn’t field any large scale army or keep a navy afloat for long. What we can do is turn the world against China. We just have to keep digging.”
It’s an asymmetric war. There are many ways to conduct warfare without telegraphing your punch.
Yes. We should ban Chinese students from US universities, bring our manufacturing back to our shores, and impose extremely high tariffs and everything sold to China or purchased from China.
This should NOT be about diplomacy or about changing hearts and minds. I would not hope for the Xi government to "get better". I wouldn't trust them. We should be trying to destroy the Chinese economy in hopes of a collapse of the government.
It is state-level criminal negligence.
Whether it is an act of war would depend on a review of the evidence and timeline.
That said, we’re already at war whether we want to admit or on not.
That's the kind of thing the President would know but wouldn't tell the rest of us.
That said, it does look like this virus was reverse engineered by the Chinese from something in a lab (like SARS). It has been alleged by Western scientists in China that this virus could not have made the jump from animals to humans with its genome intact (i.e., the genome in the human virus identical to that in the animal from which it is said to have come). The very fact that the virus has a 100% identical genome to the one in the animal from which was supposed to have come means that it was reverse engineered in that Wuhan lab for the very purpose of infecting humans.
Here's the link to an excellent video that discusses this virus comparison study (link starts at the 9:28 minute mark).
Whatever she’s selling, have supply order two dozen of each!
Trade deal out clause - Now that is something I did not think of. I could not understand why China would want to blow the economy of their #1 customer
That photograph pretty much proves she is an excellent economist.
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