The New Anti-China Campaign Is Built
On Lies
By Moon Of
Alabama
April 20, 2020
"Information
Clearing House"
- To avoid self-examination of the failures that let the
U.S. exceed the covid-19 casualty numbers of every other
nation the powers that be decided to blame someone else.
Trump's
first attempt was to blame the World Health Organization
for not providing all information. But 16 U.S.
administration officials
were embedded with the WHO in Geneva.
They relayed real time updates of all information the
WHO received.
As the
Democrats and the media
did not join Trump in
blaming the WHO another scapegoat was needed. Everyone
then agreed that it China would be the most convenient
target.
The
intensity of the current anti-China campaign reminds one
of the run up to the war on Iraq. The people who now
claim that 'China lied, people died' are
the very same who ran
the Iraq WMD campaign. But all the reports claiming
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were just fantasy. The
reports of Chinese culpability are similar nonsense.
As this
is an election year both parties try to
associate the other side
with the new villain:
“Donald Trump
sent critical medical supplies to China as Americans
continue to suffer. He needs to follow his supposed
motto of America First,” American Bridge President
Bradley Beychok said in a statement. “We’re making
sure that voters across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin know full well not only how badly Trump
botched this crisis, but also how badly he bent the
knee to China in the midst of it as well.”
...
“We are more than happy to let the American public
decide whom they trust, President Trump or Beijing
Joe Biden, to get tough on China,” said Brian O.
Walsh, president of America First, in response to
the new ad campaign by American Bridge. American
Bridge said the ad is the first of its new offensive
campaign targeting Trump, his company, business
associates and adult children over their ties to
China and other foreign investments.
The group
said it plans on rolling out microtargeted digital
ads on that theme as part of “an all-out assault on
Trump and his family over their corruption — in
China and other countries — involving foreign
bribes, political favors, shady real estate
investments, and parties with dictators.”
This will be
bad for other important political issues:
Rania
Khalek @RaniaKhalek -
19:27 UTC · Apr 17, 2020
The anti
China hawkishness is going to drown out progressive
momentum for universal healthcare and cancelling
student debt. Like Russiagate, this new yellow peril
will lead to greater military spending and more war.
Sad so many who should know better can’t see that.
Some
lawmakers
want to allow random
people to sue China over the 'damage it caused'. Other
seek to default on the
$1.2 trillion of debt the U.S. owns China.
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To
blame China the hawks are accusing it of three
issues:
- Lack of
public hygiene
-
Insufficient information
- Creating
or spreading the virus by accident
The "wet
market" in Wuhan did not have hygiene problems. A "wet
market" is
comparable to a farmers market
(vid). It is "wet" in that it provides fresh products
like fruits, vegetables, meat and fish. A "dry market"
provides the complementary products like rice, flour,
tea and sugar. China has yet to be overrun by super
market chains. Some 40% of the Chinese people source
their daily food at the wet markets.
The wet
market in Wuhan was not the source of the epidemic. It
did not and does not sell bats. The epidemic started in
December at a time when bats hibernate. The first known
case
was not related to the market
at all.
The U.S.
claims that China did not inform it sufficiently. The
timeline as published
by China and confirmed by media reports does not support
that claim.
On
January 3 the head of the U.S. Center of Disease Control
was personally informed by his Chinese counterpart that
there was an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause in
Wuhan. On January 8 the "unknown cause" was identified
as a novel coronavirus. A full genome sequence of the
virus was published on January 12 and preliminary
testing kits were developed and made available in Wuhan.
By January 13 another
test and test protocol had been developed
in Germany and on January 17 the WHO adopted
its refined version.
In the
U.S. the CDC insisted on developing its own test and
failed by
contaminating its test components.
It then failed for more than a month to correct the
issue.
The
German Federal Health Ministry was recently asked if it
perceived a lack of information from China or saw reason
to criticize China over its
changing case numbers.
It
responded (in German,
my translation):
"The federal
government is not aware that China held back any
data." ... "Considering the interim development the
adoption of different definitions of cases during
the epidemic in China is comprehensible."
Another claim
is that China somehow created the virus or let it escape
from a laboratory in Wuhan where it was researching bat
viruses.
But
scientists see
strong evidence that
the novel coronavirus is
a natural development
and they
do not believe that it
leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan:
Edward Holmes,
a biologist at the University of Sydney and a fellow
of the respected Royal Society in London, said the
Wuhan laboratory blamed by some for the pandemic
does have specimens of the bat virus RaTG13, the
closest relative of Covid-19 source SARS-CoV-2, but
the two are not genetically linked.
RaTG13
strains, he says, are from the southern Chinese
province of Yunnan, not the central city of Wuhan,
the pandemic’s initial epicenter.
...
Genome tracing has revealed that the bat virus
RaTG13 has at least 20 years of genetic divergence,
or evolutionary change, from SARS-CoV-2, and
possibly as much as 50 years, ruling it out as the
source of the pandemic.
The claims
against China made by both U.S. parties do not have a
factual basis.
It is no
wonder than that Chinese people are asking "What
Do You Really Want From Us?"
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