Posted on 04/27/2020 1:52:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sydney (AFP) - China's ambassador in Australia has warned that demands for a probe into the spread of the coronavirus could lead to a consumer boycott of Aussie wine or trips Down Under.
Australia has joined the United States in calling for a thorough investigation of how the virus transformed from a localised epidemic in central China into a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people, forced billions into isolation and torpedoed the global economy.
In a thinly veiled threat, ambassador Cheng Jingye warned the push for an independent inquest into the origins of the outbreak was "dangerous".
"The Chinese public is frustrated, dismayed and disappointed with what Australia is doing now," he claimed in an interview with the Australian Financial Review published on Sunday.
"If the mood is going from bad to worse, people would think 'why should we go to such a country that is not so friendly to China?' The tourists may have second thoughts," he added.
"It is up to the people to decide. Maybe the ordinary people will say 'Why should we drink Australian wine? Eat Australian beef?'"
Cheng also threatened the flow of Chinese students to Australian universities, a key source of revenue that is already under threat from pandemic travel restrictions.
"The parents of the students would also think whether this place which they found is not so friendly, even hostile, whether this is the best place to send their kids here," he said.
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Yet another reason to support Sen. Tom Cotton's proposed ban on Chinese students in the U.S.
Threats? This guy is a real pig.
Why should Australians catch Chinese disease s?
Australia should actually kick the Chinese students out. China will beg to let them back in.
The world did just fine without the Chinese before they joined the WTO. We can do fine without them again.
China bully at it again, GG.
I watched an Australian version of 60 Minutes. They had an entire segment on how the Chinese government, in the early stages of the pandemic, instructed Chinese businessmen working in Australia to quietly go from store to store and buy up all of the PPE they could find. They were shipping it out of the country by the planeload before the Australians caught on and put a stop to it.
Are the ChiComs getting nervous? Seems so. As when an animal is backed into a corner.
Yours is the correct response.
Because just what every economy needs is to have more Typhoid Mary tourists roaming around from the land that accountability forgot.
Aussies don’t take too kindly to being threatened by some red ambassador the Chinese dictatorship. Most Australians would be happy to see the ass end of arrogant chinese coming here and photographing every square inch of the place and forwarding it on to chicom military planners
‘dangerous ‘ to the inept ChiCom leaders who will be blamed and removed from office by their competing tyrant-wannabees.
Potential for NATIONAL DISTANCING from Red China and massive declines in potentially infected exports.
Trillions of dollars of liability
It wasn’t the virus that torpedoed the economy. it was the stupid response to it that did it. The virus has demonstrated that that the collective IQ has deteriorated enough for us to do so pointless, destructive and literally counterproductive a thing as we have done in response to it. It’s a fecking flu...
Good. I wish they would be so "threatening" to the USA.
I only wish it were the flu. It’s killing people at a daily rate much higher than the flu typically does, even with all the coutnermeasures we have put into place.
Methinks they would open the doors and encourage investigation into the source of the virus -
IF THEY HAD NOTHING TO HIDE.
Threats aren’t going to cut it, Cheng Jingye, you communist pr+ck.
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