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China Isn't Winning. The West Is Forfeiting
Townhall.com ^ | May 26, 2021 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/26/2021 6:50:57 AM PDT by Kaslin

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with "symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness." That report followed hard on a series of investigative pieces from journalists such as Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil, formerly of The New York Times, who revived the media-dismissed theory that the institute had generated COVID-19 in a laboratory and then accidentally allowed it to leak. "The argument that it (SET ITAL) could (END ITAL) have leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a sister lab in Wuhan has become considerably stronger," McNeil wrote. "And China's lack of candor is disturbing."

It now seems highly credible that COVID-19 originated inside a Chinese state laboratory -- and that China knew about it as early as November. In mid-January, the World Health Organization reported, based on Chinese information, that "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus." China censured its own Dr. Li Wenliang for attempting to spread the news of COVID-19's danger. It took until the end of January for China to lock down Wuhan.

We'll never know the answers to those questions, because the same WHO that covered for China in the early days of the pandemic is responsible for investigating Chinese malfeasance today. And President Biden's administration seems happy to keep it that way. Asked about whether America would lead an independent investigation into COVID-19's Chinese origins, White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated, "We have repeatedly called for the WHO to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic's origins that is free from interference and politicization."

Meanwhile, this week, actor John Cena apologized to the Chinese government. Cena, who stars in the upcoming "F9," was being interviewed by a Taiwanese television station and committed the grave offense of stating that "Taiwan is the first country that can watch" the movie. China, of course, sees Taiwan as an outlying territory of China and denies Taiwanese sovereignty. So, Cena, whose film has already grossed over $100 million in China, quickly issued an apology in Mandarin, saying: "I made a mistake. Now I have to say one thing which is very, very, very important: I love and respect China and the Chinese people."

The common thread here is a Western unwillingness to face down China's authoritarian regime. For some on the left, challenging China means standing up for Western values like democracy and human rights -- and this, in turn, raises questions about America's own commitment to those principles. For some in corporate America, capitalism hasn't opened China but made the West more dependent on mercantilist Beijing.

"We're in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century," Biden said in his recent quasi-State of the Union address. "We're at a great inflection point in history." China's possible unwitting release of COVID-19 and its fully documented cover-up is a unique opportunity to recalibrate the West's relationship with China. But there seems to be little taste for that necessary recalibration from a wavering Europe and United States.

Meanwhile, China isn't wavering. China grows increasingly aggressive: through its Belt-and-Road Initiative, its militaristic advances in the South China Sea and its international ties with European countries happy to make concessions. China doesn't have to defeat the United States. All it has to do is outlast us. And right now, thanks to an ugly combination of hesitancy, cowardice and corruption, China seems well-positioned to do so.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; covid19; who; wiv

1 posted on 05/26/2021 6:50:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Too kind.....Biden (and his handlers) are on the side of the CCP.


2 posted on 05/26/2021 6:54:56 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: G Larry

“Too kind.....Biden (and his handlers) are on the side of the CCP.”

Most of our politicians have been bought by the Chinese.


3 posted on 05/26/2021 6:59:05 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Kaslin

The PRC is sitting on a pile of $3 trillion dollars. Very easy to buy anyone you want with that sort of money.


4 posted on 05/26/2021 7:00:51 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Kaslin

Everytime you buy product made in China you are committing an act of passive treason.


5 posted on 05/26/2021 7:05:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Renfrew

Just think if we had a 25% tariff on all imports that stack would be a lot smaller.


6 posted on 05/26/2021 7:06:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Renfrew
"The PRC is sitting on a pile of $3 trillion dollars."


That's because we don't force China to pay up on the old Chinese treasuries they've been defaulting on since about the time Biden was born (over one treeelyun owed).

7 posted on 05/26/2021 7:07:42 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump was on the way toward breaking China’s power, and that more than anything is why he was taken out.


8 posted on 05/26/2021 7:15:35 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: brownsfan
Most of our politicians have been bought by the Chinese.

It started with politicians being purchased by big business and then, that big business made it into china and fell in love with the profits provided by cheap labor. That's the same reason pols want to import people from other countries, cheaper labor. Pols also like communism now due to seeing how china works with it's almost slave like citizens and with the Uhlgurs,(sp) actual slave labor.

9 posted on 05/26/2021 7:22:41 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Kaslin

And jao xiden is the CSMOTUS.


10 posted on 05/26/2021 7:24:41 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: bigbob

Trump was on the way toward breaking China’s power, and that more than anything is why he was taken out.
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That and getting the border back open.


11 posted on 05/26/2021 7:32:21 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Pollard

It started with politicians being purchased by big business...
Several of our ‘elected leaders” sold us out for their own gain giving the commies a foot hold to climb into the works. Clinton sold military secrets embolden the commies.


12 posted on 05/26/2021 7:34:51 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Kaslin

And when the Chinese or the Russians or the Muslims finally walk in and take over this very sick society without firing a shot, it may actually be an improvement. Bad as they are, at least they’re still grounded in reality, unlike us who are becoming more delusional by the day.


13 posted on 05/26/2021 9:56:41 AM PDT by aquila48 (o not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Kaslin

Left to itself, China has a ton of internals that will eventually cause it to implode. The only way they can stay alive is with international help.


14 posted on 05/26/2021 10:08:34 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: brownsfan

not just Biden

(find the common denominator)


15 posted on 05/26/2021 1:07:01 PM PDT by conserv8 (Always something hungry for something out there. Be careful.)
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