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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“Are the ChiComs getting nervous? Seems so. As when an animal is backed into a corner.”
Sadly, nothing will happen to China. Free Traitors in the West will back them up.
Did you see Gates comments on CNN yesterday? He said China did everything right during the pandemic and we should emulate China and the US did everything wrong.
Bill “666” Gates is free to move there if he wishes.
Unlike the USA, the CCP has no friends, even in China. The USA has rich and powerful friends, all over the world.
Its time for countries to work out what they produce a lot of and well and distribute it only to "good global citizens" - you know, the countries that have reciprocal property rights, don't persecute citizens for their religious beliefs (a WTO membership requirement), don't proclaim that they own international shipping routes, don't steal corporate or government information from other countries, don't blackmail other nations into trade scenarios, don't lend to nations knowing they can't repay and take their sea ports and other strategic commercial assets etc...
While my brother relies on Chinese upper class tourism he would rather have people from elsewhere aa many of them are not friendly at all. So no great loss. I think people will be travelling in country for a year or so.
IMHO, Bill Gates can go straight to Hell.
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