The China Problem

[LeviF]

26 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

I like the way you think. America first.

 

We need an immigration ban.  Trump's campaign talking points have all proven true time and again.  Now if only he would act on them.  He needs to fire his son-in-law yesterday.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

2 hours ago, LeviF91 said:

 

We need an immigration ban.  Trump's campaign talking points have all proven true time and again.  Now if only he would act on them.  He needs to fire his son-in-law yesterday.

 

I concur. 100% elimination of immigration.

 

 

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-un-human-rights-council-coronavirus-response

 

 

China has been appointed to a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts -- despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights abuse that the U.S. has said fueled the coronavirus pandemic.

Jiang Duan, minister at the Chinese Mission in Geneva, was appointed to the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Consultative Group -- where he will serve as the representative of the Asia-Pacific states. He will serve as one of five representatives for blocs of countries and is joined by delegates from Spain, Slovenia and Chad.

VENEZUELA TAKES SEAT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OVER US OBJECTIONS

 

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, an honor guard stands in formation as a Chinese national flag flies at half-staff at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, on Saturday. (AP)

CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE

China has been criticized over the way it handled the coronavirus outbreak, with the U.S. and others accusing the communist country of a secretive approach that punished doctors, threw out reporters, suppressed information and ultimately downplayed the seriousness of the virus -- leaving the world blindsided and unable to adequately respond to what later became a global pandemic.

"It could have been contained to that one area in China where it started," President Trump, who has called the virus the "Chinese virus," said at a press briefing last month. "And certainly the world is paying a big price for what they did."

[ComradeKayAdams]

On 4/2/2020 at 10:27 AM, Buffalo_Gal said:

Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs
 

It comes after the coronavirus outbreak was linked to wildlife meat, prompting Chinese authorities to ban the trade and consumption of wild animals.
 

Shenzhen went a step further, extending the ban to dogs and cats. The new law will come into force on 1 May.
 

Thirty million dogs a year are killed across Asia for meat, says Humane Society International (HSI).
 

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It's a good start, but I see the infamous Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin is still set to take place at the end of June. I will not be happy if this is allowed to continue... China needs to ban this and all wet markets IMMEDIATELY.

[B-Man]

 

 

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[Doc]

On 4/3/2020 at 3:18 PM, Taro T said:

An accidental transmission at the nearby lab is the most plausible scenario for how this started, IMHO.

 

It would also explain the CCP's extreme slow rollout of what they claimed to have happened and the ensuing lies about it being contained and then it not being transmittable by hth contact.  (The good old cya, which if it's the case would be another example of the coverup causing far more damage than would've been caused by simply admitting the initial "crime.")  Any way of finding out if the lab director "disappeared?"  If he did, that would all but confirm it came from the lab.

 

(Thank God scientists never get caught up into politics. )

 

Yup.  And opening the wet markets only further lends credence to it having escaped from the lab.

[B-Man]

 Did coronavirus leak from a research lab in Wuhan? Startling new theory is ‘no longer being discounted’ amid claims staff ‘got infected after being sprayed with blood.’

 

Senior sources in the British government say that while ‘the balance of scientific advice’ is still that the deadly virus was first transmitted to humans from a live animal market in Wuhan, a leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city is ‘no longer being discounted’.

 

One member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s emergency committee said last night that while the latest intelligence did not dispute the virus was ‘zoonotic’ – originating in animals – it did not rule out that the virus first spread to humans after leaking from a Wuhan laboratory.

 

The member of the ‘Cobra’ comittee, which receives detailed classified briefings from the security services, said: ‘There is a credible alternative view [to the zoonotic theory] based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted.’

 

Well, I very much doubt that the Chinese will come clean on this, but it’s another reason to isolate China from the world community, both as punishment and precaution.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 Tim Blair Delivers An Old-Fashioned Fisking to the Chinese Propaganda Apparat, And It’s Brutal.

 

Excerpt:

The Daily Telegraph this week received a letter from the Australian Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China, who took gentle issue with our excellent coverage of the coronavirus crisis.

Following is a point-by-point response to the Consulate General and China’s communist dictatorship:

Recently the Daily Telegraph has published a number of reports and opinions about China’s response to COVID-19 that are full of ignorance, prejudice and arrogance.

If a state-owned newspaper in China received this kind of complaint, subsequent days would involve journalists waking up in prison with their organs harvested.

Tracing the origin of the virus is a scientific issue that requires professional, science-based assessment.

Sure it does. How professional and science-based was the claim published on March 12 by China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian that “it might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan”?

The origin of the virus is still undetermined, and the World Health Organization has named the novel coronavirus “COVID-19”.

The World Health Organisation also appointed Zimbabwean murderer Robert Mugabe as its Goodwill Ambassador and declared on March 2 that the “stigma” of the coronavirus “is more dangerous than the virus itself”.

The World Health Organisation does a lot of stupid stuff.

So what is the real motive behind your attempt to repeatedly link the virus to China and even stating that the novel coronavirus was “made in China”?

Our motive is accuracy. That’s why we don’t link the virus to Bognor Regis or state that it was “made in Panama”.

The people of Wuhan made a huge effort and personal sacrifice to stop the spread of the epidemic.

Wuhan’s Dr Li Wenliang indeed made a huge effort to warn people about the coronavirus outbreak. Then, as the New York Times reported: “In early January, he was called in by both medical officials and the police, and forced to sign a statement denouncing his warning as an unfounded and illegal rumor.”

And now he’s dead, so that’s “personal sacrifice” covered as well.

Nevertheless, in order to capture attention and gain more internet hits, you called Wuhan the “Zombieland” and Wuhan seafood market the “bat market”. How low can you go?

In the civilized world, “Bradman bats and bats and bats” is a famous newspaper banner:

In Wuhan, it’s the name of a restaurant.

The effectiveness of China’s epidemic prevention and control has fully underlined the people-centred philosophy of the Communist Party of China and the strong advantages of the Chinese system.

In 2018, Amnesty International reported that China executed more citizens than the rest of the world combined.

Please tell us more about your “people-centred philosophy” and how many bullets it requires.

 

More at the link. Plus: “It was published on a double-page 6-7 spread in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph.”

 

The Chinese lied about the disease to keep from losing face. They’re about to find out that they chose poorly.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Blame the Chinese Communist Party for the coronavirus crisis.

 

 

 

 

 

WELL, YES:

 

 China Will Do Anything to Deflect Coronavirus Blame. 

 

“Not a single reputable epidemiologist has shown any evidence that the coronavirus came from anywhere else but China, and the Italian doctor whose comments were taken out of context to boost the case has publicly refuted it. Yet this is important because by permanently, or even temporarily, injecting doubt into the origins of the coronavirus through this question, Beijing hopes to escape blame for its initial cover-up of the outbreak in December and January, which cost the world precious time to rally resources and create a potentially successful containment strategy.”

 

Well, China has important allies in the press.

 

Related: China’s Coming Upheaval: Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping.

 

Plus: How WHO Became China’s Coronavirus Accomplice.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

WHY, IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH TRUMP HAD BEEN RIGHT ABOUT CHINA ALL ALONG:

 

 

 

 

 

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[LeviF]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-sounds-alarm-after-state-owned-chinese-outlet-crashes-coronavirus-press-briefing

 

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Republicans are sounding the alarm after a reporter with ties to China's propaganda machine gained access to Monday's White House coronavirus press briefing and used the platform to promote Beijing's efforts -- even as right-leaning outlets, including One America News Network (OANN), were being denied seating privileges at the briefings.

 

Several lawmakers said late Monday that the possibility China was spreading propaganda in the White House clearly merited immediate action, especially given Democrats' stated concerns about foreign interference in U.S. politics.

The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), an independent affiliation of journalists, nominally controls which reporters have access to the briefings, although the Trump administration has unilaterally invited OANN to the events after the WHCA revoked the network's privileges.

"Only last week, there were multiple flights coming from China full of medical supplies," the reporter from Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV began during Monday's briefing. "Companies like Huawei and Alibaba have been donating to the United States, like 1.5 million N95 masks and also a lot of medical gloves, and much more medical supplies."

"Sounds like a statement more than a question," Trump interjected.

The reporter then asked if Trump was willing to work "directly" with China; Trump responded that China should honor its trade deals with the United States.

"Are you cooperating with China?" she pressed. "Who are you working for, China?" Trump responded. "Who are you with?"

The reporter smiled. "Um, no, I'm working for -- Hong Kong Phoenix TV."
 

 

Phoenix TV is a Chinese government propaganda mouthpiece masquerading as a private news company and shamefully uses Hong Kong as a partial cover.

Edited April 7, 2020 by LeviF91

[Buffalo_Gal]

Ah China, the gift that keeps on giving:
 

 

[Doc]

4 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Ah China, the gift that keeps on giving:
 

 

 

Pneumonia, MIs and strokes, apparently.

[B-Man]

 

USA TODAY COLUMN: Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis. 

 

“China’s response was inept, dishonest and utterly inconsiderate of the world. We need to teach the Chinese government a lesson.”

 

 

UPDATE from the author Glenn Reynolds:

 

This piece has only been up for a little while and my work email is getting a steady stream of suspiciously-similar emails defending the Chinese government. I’m not going to respond, of course, but if I did I’d send Tim Blair’s response.

 

 

 

 

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[Doc]

Call their actions what they really were: criminal.

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

….sounds like they're trying to help (COUGH)………….

 

China forces Italy to buy same coronavirus supplies it had donated to Beijing a few weeks ago

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

 

China's efforts to rebrand itself as a global leader focused on humanitarian relief amid the coronavirus outbreak has hit a major snag and perhaps revealed Beijing's true intentions behind their public relations blitz.

 

After telling the world that it would donate masks, face guards and testing equipment to Italy, China quietly backtracked and sold the Mediterranean country desperately-needed medical equipment, according to a report.

What's worse is that the personal protective equipment (PPE) China forced Italy to buy was actually the same PPE Italy donated to China before coronavirus rushed its own shores and killed nearly 16,000 people.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-italy-coronavirus-supplies-buy-back

 

 

 

 

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

….sounds like they're trying to help (COUGH)………….

 

China forces Italy to buy same coronavirus supplies it had donated to Beijing a few weeks ago

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

 

China's efforts to rebrand itself as a global leader focused on humanitarian relief amid the coronavirus outbreak has hit a major snag and perhaps revealed Beijing's true intentions behind their public relations blitz.

 

After telling the world that it would donate masks, face guards and testing equipment to Italy, China quietly backtracked and sold the Mediterranean country desperately-needed medical equipment, according to a report.

What's worse is that the personal protective equipment (PPE) China forced Italy to buy was actually the same PPE Italy donated to China before coronavirus rushed its own shores and killed nearly 16,000 people.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-italy-coronavirus-supplies-buy-back

 

 

 

 

 

Well, if it's the same equipment Italy was using prior to China unleashing this on the world, they have a reasonable chance the stuff had already gone through QC checks in Italy and will actually be effective.

 

Who knows, maybe the Chinese were willing to give them the stuff China just made but then Italy said no and China needed payment to send stuff that works.  

Edited April 7, 2020 by Taro T

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

 

....wonder if Arkancide has a branch office??.........probably on Hoffa Avenue...........

Outspoken China critic who called Xi a 'clown' being investigated by Communist Party's disciplinary arm

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

 

Chinese tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, an outspoken coronavirus critic who has been missing since March 12, is being investigated by the Communist Party's disciplinary committee.

Ren, who has publicly taken on President Xi Jinping, one of China's most powerful leaders in modern history, will be investigated for "serious violations of law and discipline," the Communist Party's disciplinary arm announced Tuesday.

 

A short statement released by the Commission for Discipline Inspection in Beijing, claimed that Ren -- a member of China's ruling Communist Party and a retired real estate executive -- was being investigated.

 

"Ren's fate will be determined by what I think is an intense struggle at the top of the Communist Party," foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang told Fox News. "If Xi Jinping prevails, we won't see Ren for a long time. If Xi's adversaries win, Ren will be China's next hero."

 

Friends of Ren said they had lost contact with him following an essay he shared in recent weeks that took aim at a speech Xi made on Feb. 23. Ren told friends that he "saw not an emperor standing there exhibiting his 'new clothes,' but a clown stripped naked who insisted he continue being emperor."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/outspoken-china-critic-investigated-by-communist-party-disciplinary-arm

 

Edited April 7, 2020 by OldTimeAFLGuy

[B-Man]

 

EXPLAINING THE MANCHURIAN MEDIA:

 

Or to put it another way: China’s Long Tentacles Extend Deep Into American Media.

 

 

 

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