Posted on 02/28/2023 1:28:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy’s “low confidence” assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday morning on the warning from the social media pages of the Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the CCP-controlled People’s Daily. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be “breaking the pot of China” after the Tesla and Twitter CEO responded to tweets that asserted that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan research laboratory.
The saying is akin to the idiom “to bite the hand that feeds you,” Yoon reported. Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s second largest market.
The Department of Energy concluded with “low confidence” that the Covid pandemic began in a Wuhan laboratory, but sources familiar with the matter stressed to NBC News that the conclusion was not viewed as hugely significant. The FBI reached a similar conclusion at a “moderate confidence” level in 2021.
The governing Chinese Communist Party has been highly sensitive to the matter, especially as it courts outside investment after months of zero-Covid lockdowns prompted nationwide protests, CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported.
Musk wasn’t immediately available to comment.
War is hell. Countless millions of innocents have already died because of the CCPs actions in the past and now with Covid and now they’re actively infiltrating all of western civilization to destroy it.
Yes, nuke them or watch a fate worse than incineration go on for hundreds of years under totalitarian oppression and social justice warrior mob rule.
That IS what he said, YOU read it again, especially the part about the protests against the CCP both in Hong Kong and China in 2019 which Trump was capitalizing on.
You make a great point.
That’s what they’re scared of.
Right, like I said it sounds plausible and obvious side evidence should be available (we’re only rebellion members sealed into their houses? We’re CCP loyalists able to avoid the lockdowns/get preferential treatment, etc;
Otherwise you have to take the events at face value - they were stupid along with the rest of the world and we were all idiots to acquiesce to fear.
ok looks like your right, my apologies
FR used to be a much more thoughtful place than it has become.
When the government claims a report is “low confidence”, it’s 100% true.
I have no proof of course. It’s just a mere observation.
Huge protests broke out in Wuhan. Hong Kong also had serious protests that were growing in intensity. The CCP needed an escape hatch before it spread to other large cities. The Tiennamen Square concept was fine in 1989 when the west could fulminate and fire off angry letters, but had no real lever over China.
But today, mass repressions, mass murder, tanks rolling could not be hidden and the world could bring their economy and global respect to a halt.
Their second problem was Trump and they did NOT want him reelected.
So you release a SARS virus, and lock down the city with a “health emergency”. You fill the news, social media and youtube with videos of guys in hazmat suits spraying some kind of disinfectant. You put out numerous videos of people falling dead at the mall, on the sidewalk, or crossing the street. This was to reinforce to the locked down Chinese how real it was.
Then of course, this SARS variant needs to go to the west, and our compliant leaders were thrilled at the chance to use it to kill Trump’s economy.
Not only is it likely, its the only thing that even makes sense to me.
Their first story is that it arose naturally at the wet market, or bat soup or whatever.
Caught in that, their FALLBACK is that it maybe leaked. But that is simply the next lie after the first lie was no longer operant.
Too much lines up, it was deliberate. Remember, the CCP has murdered 49 million at a minimum. Less than a decade ago they threw female infants on trash piles on the edge of town. They did forced abortion and sterilization.
They did it. And their bought and paid for US businessmen, guys like Fauci and out political leaders were more than happy to play along to rid themselves of Trump.
I’m just someone who pays attention, but it’s the only thing that makes sense to me.
>>They were a 3rd world nation until our globalist pigs reached out to them<<
It’s all about the $$ bottom line $$.
American corporations chomped at the bit to out-source good paying American jobs in exchange for cheap Chinese labor.
Some cases slave labor to produce their goods.
Bring those products here to America and realize huge margins. Traitors to the country of their birth for the almighty dollar. Disgusting.
For a guy with a name like “gunsequalfreedom” you really don’t understand the concept.
The great majority of the Chinese people are ready and willing to invade Taiwan and let the CCP overrun the world to bring heaven on earth.
Think on that.
There’s a very REAL reason we nuked Japan.
Nice auto plant you have there Elon....
No, they pretty much want to do the same things you and I do each day. Spend time with family and friends, have a good job, go out for the evening.
I’m not thinking it is as you say that they want to go off and fight in a war.
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