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Let me give the, there’s something that China would call the four kills. I think it’s worth going over because the Chinese effectively declared war. They spawned that virus. The most likely explanation is it came out of a biological weapons lab, probably by accident, but who knows?
But more importantly, we know they knowingly hid that virus, Neil, for six weeks. That’s the second kill because during that time, hundreds of thousands of Wuhanians and other Chinese flew to places like New York and Detroit and all around and Milan, all around the world, effectively seeding the planet with this Wuhan virus.
And it just, if they had simply been honest, honest with the world, they could have contained it within Wuhan. And we wouldn’t be having this conversation. That’s the second kill.
The third kill and China’s own customs data, Neil, show this -- we saw while they were hiding the virus from the world, they went out and vacuumed up all the PPE around the world, two billion masks they bought alone. And they took it from countries in Europe, South America, the United States.
And now, the fourth kill is that they’re hoarding that and using that PPE as a weapon in their soft power to project it and to profiteer. I mean, we’re seeing, Neil, these are 30, 40-cent masks, 50-cent masks at retail usually, and they’re selling them, they’re coming to the hospitals here for $7 and $8.
There is evidence that Trump’s anti-China message is finding bipartisan acceptance in Congress and in corporate America, which has grown increasingly unhappy with a relationship with China that it had long sought to strengthen and expand.
And with November’s election on the horizon and the economic gains he’d planned on taking credit for wiped out, Trump is likely to intensify his attacks on China and to frame any criticism of his administration by the media or Democratic opponents as being pro-China. “One way we still win this election is by turning it into a referendum on China,” said one Trump campaign advisor, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Also contributing to the growing disenchantment with China have been Beijing’s continued crackdowns on dissent and human rights, its aggressive military moves in the South China Sea and other factors.
A veteran national security expert, who has warned for years about China’s growing threat to the West, says others are now waking up to the possibility that China has declared war on the United States.
Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy says people are finally listening to early claims that the COVID-19 virus came from an experimental lab, located in Wuhan, not from an infected animal being sold at a seafood market in the city that became ground zero last December.
Last year saw companies actively rethinking their supply chain, either convincing their Chinese partners to relocate to southeast Asia to avoid tariffs, or by opting out of sourcing from China altogether.
"Three decades ago, U.S. producers began manufacturing and sourcing in China for one reason: costs. The trade war brought a second dimension more fully into the equation―risk―as tariffs and the threat of disrupted China imports prompted companies to weigh surety of supply more fully alongside costs. COVID-19 brings a third dimension more fully into the mix, and arguably to the fore: resilience―the ability to foresee and adapt to unforeseen systemic shocks," says Patrick Van den Bossche, Kearney partner and co-author of the 19-page report.
The main beneficiaries of this are the smaller southeast Asian nations, led by Vietnam. And thanks to the passing of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, Mexico, for all its problems with drug cartels, has become a favorite spot for sourcing.
The alternative narrative, gaining increasing currency, is that China’s central leadership in Beijing knew early on about the severity and extent of the mysterious new virus in Wuhan and lied to the world in a massive cover-up. In those early crucial days, China barred experts from the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. President Xi Jinping received a grim assessment on 14 January about the Wuhan virus becoming a pandemic, according to reporting by the Associated Press, but the public was not warned until a week later. The late January lockdown of Wuhan came far too late, after more than half the city’s 11 million residents were allowed to leave for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Even now, according to this view, China’s leaders continue to lie and to obfuscate. Many believe China’s death toll from Covid-19 is far higher than the country is willing to admit, and that people with virus symptoms are simply no longer being tested. Most new infections are being blamed on ‘imported’ cases from abroad, even though the vast majority are Chinese nationals returning home from overseas.
The deliberate implication is that foreigners are now carrying the virus, stoking Chinese nationalism, xenophobia and racism, evidenced by the sickening scenes of Africans in Guangzhou being forced from their apartments or locked into forced quarantine. Some restaurants, including McDonald’s, displayed signs saying black people would not be allowed inside.
Developing greater self-sufficiency in medical goods while minimising supply risk has begun to take on literal "life and death" connotations for many countries.
The massive stimulus package just passed by the US Congress mandates the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the heavily China-dependent US medical supply chain (ranging from drugs to equipment and devices) to identify national security and public health risks.
In an interview Thursday with K.T. McFarland, who served as deputy national security advisor under President Donald Trump, Dobbs floated the possibility that the coronavirus was created by China as a biological weapon.
“If this turns out to be a biological weapon, K.T., if this happens to be a conscious and overt act on the part of the Chinese military — and we know that biological warfare is part of their military doctrine, a significant part, just as cyber warfare or any other — if this were to turn out to be that, what should be the response?” Dobbs said. “Because I’m not interested in two and three year programs … This country is not operating in the 21st century if we think we have time to retool, reposition, repurpos
originally posted by: rickymouse
They hoarded the PPE because their citizens needed the PPE. It is not their fault that America got this reliant on them that they can't make what they need in case of an emergency. It is our fault for getting so dependent on their products and causing their people to live in a poluted environment which is causing rapid evolution of all kinds of microbes there.
Frankly, what surprises me most is that there hasn't been more discussion along these lines. Whatever we may call them, whether we label them "wars" or not, there are already several wars underway around the world.
originally posted by: Serdgiam
Thats where Ive been at...
I would just add the nuance that there arent really borders in the conflict, it largely plays out on battlegrounds that most arent aware exist, and peoples Minds are the "ammo."
Marching towards global corporate technofascism.. With multiple fallbacks, including traditional conflict.
originally posted by: rickymouse
China may declare War on the USA if we start suing them for the same kind of stuff we do here in our country, covering up mistakes. Trump said, if it is a mistake it is a mistake....that is right....do not start a war over it.
originally posted by: rickymouse
They hoarded the PPE because their citizens needed the PPE. It is not their fault that America got this reliant on them that they can't make what they need in case of an emergency. It is our fault for getting so dependent on their products and causing their people to live in a poluted environment which is causing rapid evolution of all kinds of microbes there.
China may declare War on the USA if we start suing them for the same kind of stuff we do here in our country, covering up mistakes. Trump said, if it is a mistake it is a mistake....that is right....do not start a war over it.
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: LookingAtMars
I do not agree with the way that the chinese government covered this up, but do respect the guts of some of the Chinese scientists to get information out while they could.
You are correct.....Our government would probably do the same thing if it was a government facility.
Kind of makes me wonder if China had a hand in the Lil' Kim mystery.
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: LookingAtMars
I do not agree with the way that the chinese government covered this up, but do respect the guts of some of the Chinese scientists to get information out while they could.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Now that the CIA's most well done manufactured boogeyman since Al Qaeda has been chucked to the weeds, what are they to do next.......
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Cannibalization is the next step. They will amplify this operation to turn us against each other. The left/right paradigm will get much hotter, after all election is next year
but most likely activity will be directed towards South China Sea and Australia will have to figure out if they want to be ruled by the Chinese for the sake of trade, or liberty and friendship with US.