Certainly earns this from Gomer.
Posted on 08/19/2020 12:50:31 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Trump administration officials have tried taking a political sledgehammer to China over the coronavirus pandemic, asserting that the Chinese Communist Party covered up the initial outbreak and allowed the virus to spread around the globe.
But within the United States government, intelligence officials have arrived at a more nuanced and complex finding of what Chinese officials did wrong in January, report Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.
Officials in Beijing were kept in the dark for weeks about the potential devastation of the virus by local officials in central China, according to American officials familiar with a new internal report by U.S. intelligence agencies.
The report concluded that officials in the city of Wuhan and in Hubei Province, where the outbreak began late last year, tried to hide information from China’s central leadership. The finding is consistent with reporting by news organizations and with assessments by China experts of the country’s opaque governance system.
Local officials often withhold information from Beijing for fear of reprisal, current and former American officials say.
The new assessment does not contradict the Trump administration’s criticism of China, but adds perspective and context to actions — and inaction — that created the global crisis.
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All by the Chernobyl playbook.
Everyone should see the HBO Chernobyl miniseries. It provides a stark lesson that this is what will ALWAYS happen when you build a society where everyone is afraid to tell the truth.
No kidding.
Set up a culture where the bearer of bad news gets shot, and magically, no bad new gets reported...
And yet, according to Democrats, Trump is singularly responsible for all of the impacts of the virus, including decisions made by Democrat governors of states.
So our “Intel Agencies”, the ones who spied on Trump, destroyed Flynn for fear of exposure, are saying it wasn’t the CCP’s fault at all? Yeah, blow me.
Certainly earns this from Gomer.
I think this is baloney. Never forget that China isolated Wuhan from the rest of China, BUT allowed international flights in and out of Wuhan for some time after their internal China quarantine.
Central CCP'ers say it was the local Wuhan yahoos who were at fault.
Yeah, right!
Sounds like BS.
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Ever see the Worldwide ‘Deaths’ chart for WUFLU ??
See the China (ChiCom) listing - how incredibly low their number is (when the US admits its 140000+ number (which may be dubiously high by some).
THEY ARE STILL ‘Hiding Information’ and never diverges from doing it from the start.
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“...Local Officials Hid Information from Beijing. “
Yeah, right.
Those ‘local’ officials had no fear of the CCP bullet in the head cure for ‘malarkey’.
Who didn’t know this in January?
Who didn’t know this in January?
That China was not forthcoming with info on this
Its still part of what country, now?
that is true
Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,you’re dead.
Their system performed exactly as it always performs. Problems are ALWAYS covered up and nothing happens quickly. This has always been a problem with COMMUNISM.
sooo I guess we can go back to moneymaking with China again...
Naturally the New York Times would DEFEND CHINA.
Because China did not do anything WRONG. Some scientists in Wuhan did.
That rag of a paper should be deported to China
I hope they mistakenly nuke themselves and take out China's political and military leaders with it.
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