Posted on 05/03/2020 9:05:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as the Trump administration has intensified its criticism of China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Sunday that that country was responsible for the spread of disease and must be held accountable.
The sharper rhetoric coincides with administration critics saying the government’s response to the virus was slow and inadequate. President Donald Trump’s political opponents have accused him of lashing out at China, a geopolitical foe but critical U.S. trade partner, in an attempt to deflect criticism at home.
Not classified but marked “for official use only,” the DHS analysis states that, while downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, China increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies. It attempted to cover up doing so by “denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data,” the analysis states.
The report also says China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus “was a contagion” for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.
Those conclusions are based on the 95% probability that China’s changes in imports and export behavior were not within normal range, according to the report.
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They have rumbled a bit, but Australia isn’t big enough to have any real influence. As China replied to their comments “Australia is gum stuck to the bottom of China’s shoe”. If the big players, like Japan, Germany, UK, Italy, France and India would join us, China would have no choice but to accept whatever sanctions we imposed. But most of those countries are as likely to side with China as with us.
For every dollar of debt we accrue during this virus war; it should be a dollar deleted from what we owe China.
That’s just to start with.
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Other countries are getting aboard.
I read about it earlier, but forget which nations it is
2 or 3 others , and probably more will follow
Other reasons for China holding off of course was so they could release their bioweapon on the whole world
They virtually started World War 3
Do a DuckDuckGo search you will find several nations are with us on this issue
China is at war with every nation that has lost at least one person to their Chinese Wuhan virus weapon of War.
There’s a large turd in the pool with a China flag in it!
China opened a door to hell and tried to cover their monumental f-up by gagging doctors who knew what was happening. They then allowed people to travel all over the world from the district where the virus broke out while not allowing anyone to travel within China. In the meantime they hoard all the medical supplies they can find to fight the virus in their own country. World to the WHO and Chinese Communist Party: GO F Yourself !!!
It ain't it's something very different, likely unleashed from a chicom lab through sheer chicom imcompetence.
All the same, the chicoms cannot be trusted and for the survival of the planet, they should be "evicted".
Thing I can’t reconcile... if they UNDERplayed this, rather than OVERplayed it... why the fake “people dropping dead in streets” propaganda campaign?
“Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world...”
How severe is it?
First we need to sort out how much of the supposed severity was media hype and bureaucratic fear-mongering.
It is obvious that leftist central-planners and political saboteurs are having a field day with this. But was this a crisis not going to waste, or a manufactured crisis?
Look, I’m all for pounding Red China into the dirt - blame them and punish them for anything and everything, as far as I’m concerned.
But this narrative of China “concealing the severity” of Covid-19 seems to play right into the hands of the fear-mongers and political saboteurs.
Those of us who are protesting these unconstitutional stay-at-home orders are doing so on the grounds that Covid-19 is not such an unprecedented threat as to justify these unprecedented restrictions of our freedom. The sky is not falling.
We can’t very well argue that the sky is not falling, and at the same time blame China for the fact that the sky is falling.
I have no doubt there are some in the US would do this IF possible.
no kidding
pegged their motivation?
hardly
That the “one error” they made in containing the virus was to “accidentally allow flights out of Wuhan into the rest of the world” proves to me there was malintent on their part.
I know the feeling.. But unforturnly, it's the only game in town.. :(
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Thanks for posting that!
There are enemies within our gates...
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