By Peter Koenig
January 30, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
In a positive appeal
to the Chinese people, last Saturday,
President Xi
Jinping has called on the nation’s courage
to defeat the deadly epidemic which has already
claimed more than 80 lives and more than 2,000
infected worldwide, the vast majority in China.
These figures are changing fast, as the spread of
the epidemic is accelerating. President Xi warned
that the situation was serious, but not
unsurmountable.
“As long as we have steadfast confidence,
work together, [rely on] scientific prevention
and cures, and precise policies, we will
definitely be able to win the battle,” President
Xi told a politburo meeting, according to
Xinhua.
It is thought that the deadly coronavirus,
2019-nCoV has originated from wild animals, such as
bats, but science is still out to confirm the
details.
In short, the Government of China deserves
high-flying congratulations for the efficient, rapid
sanitary measures it has taken to avoid further
infection – putting about 50 million people in a
state of quarantine, blocking potentially dangerous
travel routes and checking travelers for possible
symptoms.
The timing of the outbreak has an additional
dimension of pain and suffering, as it affects and
hinders people’s celebration of the New Chinese
Lunar Year’s joy of visiting families and of
togetherness. And on a tertiary plan, it also
affects the retail economy.
Chinese doctors and nurses have already healed
several dozen cases. Chinese scientists in
collaboration with Russian scientists are
accelerating their research into developing a
vaccine against the virus. Indeed, there is no
country in the world that has ever achieved with
such ardor, efficiency and love for the people,
progress towards isolation of a potentially highly
infectable and deadly disease, preventing millions
from infection and providing them with protective as
well as curative measures, and by setting up a
countrywide impenetrable health surveillance
mechanism.
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There could not be a clearer sign, that the
Government of China is making every effort for the
betterment and the well-being of its population.
This is also reflected in the high esteem and
credibility the Chinese people entrust in their
government. – Something not heard of in the west –
not by far.
Rather to the contrary: in the west disease means
foremost business and that (business) model of
health care is steadily increasing, treating sick
people like a “market” – and those not yet sick, as
a potential market. The medical industry, is one of
the most ferocious money-making apparatuses, next to
the war industry.
It’s more, the big western bought and
manipulative media have immediately put the blame on
China. They are demonizing and slandering China, for
insufficient hygiene, for medical negligence – it is
one more accusation of the “yellow peril” causing
worldwide danger. A horror of western attitude and
injustice.
Aside from such lies and false propaganda, let’s
look at the context. In the USA alone, the regular
influenza causes every year several thousand deaths,
and that despite country-wide carpet vaccination,
and in some states forced vaccination. The 2019/20
flu-season has already claimed more than 7000
reported deaths and uncounted cases of serious flu
infections; and that only in the United States. We
are talking about a country of some 350 million
people. – The statistics of this flu-epidemic could
be expanded proportionally throughout Europe and the
rest of the western world – and the order of
magnitude would be even more overwhelming.
Yet, China, with a population of some 1.4 billion
people, an outbreak, where up to this writing less
than 3000 people have been infected with the new
2019-nCoV virus, and the death toll stands at below
100, the country is being badgered non-stop for
being at the origin of this new disease.
Let me be clear, China does not need or want to
compare herself to the west, nor does she want to
measure her degree of efficiency in mastering the
disease and dealing with the disease’s consequences
against the west. Not at all. It’s not part of the
Chinese philosophy. – However, WHO immediately calls
the outbreak a potential pandemic, thereby
frightening the public at large with yet another
danger coming from the east, from China.
The Chinese Government and the Chinese scientists
work for the people, to contain the outbreak to the
extent possible. And they will ‘win’; their
determination like with most everything China
engages in overcomes almost all obstacles. What
China has already achieved in stopping the disease
from seriously spreading within China and to other
countries is simply remarkable. It is what no other
country in the world would have achieved in this
short period.
China does all this quietly, no bragging. It is
simply an endless flow of creation for the
well-being of her population and for harmony – and
eventually for a peaceful, trustful cohabitation of
the people with their government. People willingly
participate in this mammoth effort to contain and
cure the disease, willingly, despite their suffering
of many for not being able to visit their families
during that highly revered Chinese New Year, the New
Lunar Year celebration which in magnitude and
importance would be western equivalent of Christmas.
Having said this, it should also be noted that
this case of 2019-nCoV is curiously similar to other
CoronoVirus diseases, like the Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome – MERS, first found in Saudi
Arabia (2012) and then it spread to other Middle
Easter and Sub-Saharan African countries; and the
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), first
discovered in China in 2002, spread around the world
but was quickly contained and caused no know
infections after 2004. Both are coronaviruses,
suspected having been laboratory-made, with animal
trials, and the viruses transfer to humans was only
possible with human assistance. Then the viruses
mutated to make human-to-human infection possible.
Bothe SARS and the new 2019-nCoV virus also have the
particularity of affecting primarily people of the
Chinese race.
There are some 100-plus CIA / Pentagon sponsored
clandestine and semi-known laboratories spread
throughout the world – laboratories to fabricate and
test agents for biological warfare. A few years ago,
one such laboratory was discovered and reported on
in Ukraine. They were working on a virus affecting
the “Russian Race”. Since there is no homogenous
Russian Race – their initial trials supposedly
failed. Since the empire never gives up in its evil
attempts to dominate the world, we can assume that
research on race directed bio-agents continues.
This western, especially American (CIA, Pentagon,
NATO) project to develop bio-chemical weapons to
kill people by disease rather than bullets and bombs
– it is much cheaper! And less obvious – does exist.
You may draw your own conclusion on whether SARS and
the new 2019-nCoV fits that pattern. The timing of
the appearance was especially curious. It was first
reported on 31 December 2019 in Wuhan – and then
expanded into a proportion, so that it interfered
with China’s most important Holiday, the Lunar New
Year. It could, of course, be just coincidence.
One of Washington’s “low-grade” warfare models is
destabilizing China (and Russia for that matter)
with any means. With the objective of
destabilization, China is constantly being harassed
and aggressed – see Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Uyghurs
in Xinjiang, Tibet, the tariff wars – and
why not with a contagious virus, a trial for a
potential pandemic?
What can be observed and even the west must
notice to their chagrin and frustration – is China’s
extreme resilience and capacity to adapt and resist
– to resist with powerful minds and ingenuity that
saves her people. And that without
counter-aggression, without even an accusation and
never a threat. This is China’s way forward: a
steady flow of endless creation, avoiding conflict,
no dominance, but seeking harmony by building
bridges between people and among countries and
cultures – creating understanding and wellbeing,
towards a multi-polar world. A model for mankind? –
If only the west would open its eyes and wake up.
Peter Koenig
is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also
a water resources and environmental specialist. He
worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the
World Health Organization around the world in the
fields of environment and water. He lectures at
universities in the US, Europe and South America. He
writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; Greanville Post;
Defend Democracy Press, TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the
New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites.
He is the author of
Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War,
Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed
– fiction based on facts and on 30 years of
World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a
co-author of
The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from
the resistance. He is a Research
Associate of the Centre for Research on
Globalization.
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