The sin of China is to be the first to discover, isolate and identify this Covid19 and presented the genome sequence to WHO. This started a continuous sequence of events when countries started to test for Covid19. And the more they test, the more cases of infection they discover. And this kept growing, from neighbouring states of China to Iran and Italy and the rest of Europe. Then the USA found their first case in March, (they deliberately refused to do any testing before this and classified their earlier deaths as from pneumonia and common flu) and other countries in Latin America also found their Covid19 cases.And the more Americans tested, the more cases appeared while at the same time they fabricated all sorts of excuses not to test, not enough test kits, etc etc to keep the numbers low. Even at token rate of testing, the USA has the most cases in the world, more than the rest of the world combined. Why?
These events led or misled many to think that Wuhan was where the virus first jumped to human beans. And from Wuhan it spread across Asia then to Europe and the USA. It is so convenient to think that this is the natural movement of the virus. And when they discovered that the strains in Europe were not the same as that in Wuhan, they conveniently assumed that the virus has mutated to a different strain. This same strain was also found in the USA, presumably spread by Europeans entering the US.
And subsequently when the virus was detected in Latin America, in Brazil, and the strain was found to be similar to the European strain, it must have come from Europe. This is a very simplified explanation that many have been made to believe. Is this true? Is this how this virus spread across the world? For the moment just exclude the virus found in American submarines and warships that were out in the sea for several months and had no contact with people in affected countries. How did the virus appeared in these remote vessels that had no contacts with people on land? The mischievous and those that would want to point the guilty finger at China would not want to discuss about this aberration. And the virus also appeared in nursing homes and prisons when they were tested. How?
OK, what if Brazil or some African or Latin American countries were to do the testing before Europe and the USA? Would the story then be that the virus travelled to Africa and Latin America first and then went over to infect the USA which in turn infected the Europeans. Instead of assuming that the virus moved from A to B, C and D, it could be from A to D, C and B. Get the picture?
Put it in another way, if the Americans were to test for the virus before the Europeans or the Latin Americans, would everyone be saying that the virus jumped from the USA, after China, to Latin America and Europe. Or, if the virus were not discovered first by the Chinese in Wuhan, no one would be wiser and would go about their lives thinking that all those that died were due to common flu and pneumonia.
There is a high possibility that the virus was already present all over the world before it was isolated and identified in Wuhan, China. There are now more evidence and suspicion that the virus were already killing many Americans even before it was discovered in Wuhan, many months earlier and the dead Americans were misdiagnosed as dying from common flu/pneumonia.
The sin of Wuhan, China was to be the first to discover this virus and be blamed as the source of this infection, The Original Sin. If the Chinese scientists were not attentive and thorough enough and treated all the cases as common flu, then no one would be wiser, just like in the USA when thousands were infected and thousands died and diagnosed as common flu, no big deal.
The big deal will come when the Americans were tested positive, posthumously, those that died in the months before this virus was identified in Wuhan in December 19. This will prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the virus originated from the USA but planted in Wuhan, China to genocide the Chinese. And they quickly called the virus Wuhan or Chinese virus just like they called the Spanish flu that came from Kansas, USA, not from Spain.
The truth shall surface and it is a matter when. And the truth can be proven scientifically, not guess work and a matter of opinions of jokers or mischievous trouble makers to achieve a political objective. China would be vindicated and the liars and cheats would be paraded without their clothes on, naked, for all to see. There will be no place to hide.
Just CNN reports now Switzerland Scientist said Chinese and European strains.
ReplyDeleteSo, cannot be originated from China.
Bloody Frenchy bastards said vaccine must first go to USA.
WHO said to everyone in this planet.
So, farking Asians should wake up that the Whites will take care of themselves and this is a reality.
Not to carry and licked their balls and arses.
President Xi should hold a Media conference and have one journalist ask him a question in which he will answer "Ask USA. Ask Trump. They are the ones who scientifically and genetically engineered this Virus to annihilate the World."
They must have the antidote. That's why Dotard hinted disinfectants and chloride and Malaria tablets.
Just to add. The Frenchies may bullshits that they have the vaccine.
ReplyDeleteYou be surprised that China will be the first to have the vaccine.
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Well reasoned article. kudos to you sir.
ReplyDeleteCNN journalist reported that China gonna test their 11 millions residents for the virus. Just a few cases and they will test 11 millions of them in Wuhan. For they do not want lifes to be lost.
ReplyDeleteMade Dotard TRUMP angry you know. He boasted that UassA is the number one and most efficient testings nation in the world.
You must understand that the Europeans and Americans are all birds of a feather.
ReplyDeleteThe Europeans were the earlier de facto pirates, the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and British who sailed around the world (by the way many now believe that these pirates and their 'discoveries' were all made decades after Zheng He had visited those countries). They just rewrote history to legitimise their claim to those countries they deemed fit to seize.
It is just the same way they rewrote history by glorifying the Normandy Landings and claiming credit for the defeat of the Nazis. It was the Russians that did the real work of defeating Nazi Germany, albeit with massive losses of lives - 27 million Russians sacrificed their lives, and yet the Russians were written out of history. When they celebrated the anniversary of the Normandy Landings recently (which was just a mopping up operation actually to claim credit), Russia was conveniently ignored, for fear of being exposed.
You can see how desperate the US has become. Now they are claiming that a piece of junk from a Chinese rocket landed close to the NYC, the first time in 30 years they touted. How convenient to report this piece of news at the right time and place of all places. It seems that anything bad that happens in US is the fault of China.
The US is posturing for war with China. No doubt about it. That is, if the coronavirus does not bring them to their knees first. Now you can see the dirty games being played by the French and US, with the French saying that any vaccine would go to the US first. Does that tell us anything?
China must produce a vaccine before all these gangsters do so. And let the whole world benefit from it to prevent the mafias from holding a monopoly over their vaccine and holding the world hostage to their demands.
Plan A was probably to cause massive damage to China discreetly, and not for the Chinese to discover the virus so fast. But they did.
ReplyDeleteSo plan B was to blame China for discovering the virus and accused the Chinese of starting the pandemic by eating wildlife and put the blame on them (which many countries have been eating wildlife for centuries), then accusing China of purposely, then accidentally, then accidentally on purpose, leaking the virus from a lab, then accusing China of being not transparent in telling the US about it, then blaming the WHO for being China-centric. You can see how much fake news they can generate with their massive propaganda machine.
Plan C now is to keep hammering on the accusations, never mind that science and medical research will eventually find out the truth. In the end when it all comes back to the US as being the culprit, Trump will be asked why did they do it and he will say 'ask China'. This is now his template reply when he cannot answer a pointed question.
A Chinese citizen says:
ReplyDeleteLife and work are gradually returning to normal in Shanghai. My colleagues and I are back in the office. Restaurants and bars have reopened—with a temperature check at the door. Hellobike, China’s largest bike-sharing company (of which I am an investor), is reporting that ridership is back to 70 percent of the pre-pandemic level. The same is happening by varying degrees in the rest of China. The nightmare that felt as if it would last forever may be behind us—knock on wood. Let me use this teachable moment to share five things I learned about China’s society and government.China is fortunate to have the right leader at the right time.
The Chinese people trust their political institutions. Our understanding of China has been dominated by the narrative that an authoritarian one-party state is by definition incapable of retaining genuine public trust. This narrative has overwhelmed our perceptions, but it’s time to put it aside. Now that Mother Nature has delivered something with such impact, reality can no longer be ignored.
On Jan. 23, the Chinese government ordered the lockdown of the city of Wuhan and then the entire province of Hubei, with a total population of 56 million, making it the largest quarantine in human history. Two days later, all provinces except Tibet declared the highest level of health emergency, and more than 760 million urban dwellers were confined to their homes, being allowed to go out only for essential needs with face masks mandatory in all public places. Most rural villages were also closed off. At the time, total reported infections and deaths nationwide were 571 and 17, respectively—rather low considering what transpired afterward around the world.
The entire nation was surprised by the magnitude of the measure. Overnight in Shanghai, a city of 24 million people, streets that were clogged with traffic only days before became empty of both people and automobiles. At first I thought this would last a week, maybe two. But it went on—and on. People stayed home, and streets remained empty.
This immediate and nearly total compliance by hundreds of millions of people came as a genuine surprise to me. If you have been to China, you would know how unruly people can seem. Regular Chinese police are unarmed. On the streets of Shanghai, it is not uncommon to see someone arguing, often aggressively, with police officers over a traffic ticket. There is no way to explain the complete submission to a massive lockdown like this for so long by so many other than voluntary. Yes, self-interest can explain it in part because no one wants to get sick. But if we compare this with other countries where large crowds of educated young people congregated on beaches and in clubs in open defiance of their governments’ orders and warnings (at least in the initial phase) and where harsh police enforcement is still going on, it is clear that self-interest isn’t enough as an explanation. Only a very high degree of trust by the people in their political institutions’ expertise and ability to protect them can result in such compliance.
Some may argue that such submission was due to China’s strict security apparatus. This is off the mark for two reasons. First, security forces are only effective against small groups of activists, not a vast population of hundreds of millions of people if they chose to disobey en masse. Second, throughout the epidemic, there were few reports and little evidence of mass coercive actions to enforce lockdowns.
The government also went to extraordinary lengths in its communication with the public. Every day, new data was released—by city, by province, and nationwide. Every hour, government experts were on TV talking in detail about the new coronavirus and the nation’s evolving response. Every newspaper was writing about the importance of social distancing. In other words, the trust was not blind. Opportunism and shirking responsibility are not within Xi Jinping’s character.
Chinese civil society is alive and well. If you were immersed in Chinese social media in early February, you might have drawn the opposite conclusion. Public anger was raging in the midst of the biggest national trauma since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The alert mechanism for local authorities to provide early warnings to Beijing, which the government established after the SARS epidemic 15 years ago, apparently failed in the initial stage of the coronavirus outbreak. Many speculated that the bureaucratic fear of delivering bad news up the official chain caused the delay, exposing a significant fault in China’s political system. The uproar reached a boiling point when Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who first warned of the danger of the coronavirus in December and was muzzled by the local police, succumbed to the virus himself. If that’s all you saw, it might be understandable for you to see this as China’s Chernobyl moment or the beginning of a version of the Arab Spring, as some indeed claimed. But that’s not how it turned out.
ReplyDeleteWhen the central government acted to mobilize for the most sweeping counter-epidemic operation in human history, the country coalesced. Half a million volunteers went to the front lines in Hubei province, risking their health and lives as medics, quarantine workers, and logistics personnel. Nationwide, more than 2 million citizens have registered and served as volunteers. Social media began to be flooded with their inspiring stories and images. Cafes and restaurants were providing free food and drinks to volunteers, even though their businesses were suffering catastrophic losses. One picture that went viral showed a Wuhan community worker covered shoulder to toe with medicine packages he was carrying for home delivery. Virtually every neighborhood in the country organized 24-hour checkpoints with volunteers and security personnel controlling access and checking people’s temperatures. Many communities also organized volunteers to check on the livelihoods of vulnerable residents like the elderly. Imagine this happening with 1.4 billion people, on every street, in every neighborhood, in every village! There has been virtually no crime.
On the internet, the government and various social institutions put out an enormous volume of information about the characteristics of the coronavirus and the progress of the pandemic. There was massive public engagement on social media for the dissemination of information. Now I watch Western experts and authorities talking on CNN and BBC about such things as the length of time the virus can survive on hard surfaces or in aerosol form. But these are things tens of millions of Chinese netizens were already talking about, every day and every hour, back in February.
From the top down, the government called for a “people’s war” against the pandemic. And this is exactly what happened, from the bottom up. I had more or less bought into the common assumption among many political thinkers that civil society was weak in China because the authoritarian party-state would not allow it to flourish. But now it occurred to me that this was based on the common liberal definition of civil society as something apart from or even in opposition the state. If we look at Chinese civil society in the classical definition of the term, what Aristotle called koinonia politike—political community that is not distinct from the state—it appeared throughout this pandemic to be perhaps the most vibrant in the world.
In China, state capacity counts even more than the market. One of the most endlessly debated topics, not just in China, is the relationship between the market and the state. Well, this time the state has won—and won big. It is abundantly clear to everyone except the most die-hard neoliberals that the preservation of state capacity (alongside the growth of the market) has saved China from an unimaginable catastrophe with potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths.Our understanding of China has been dominated by the idea that an authoritarian one-party-state is incapable of retaining genuine public trust.
ReplyDeleteAt the onset of the counter-epidemic operation in late January, the Chinese state swung into action. The central government coordinated national medical resources to quickly concentrate on Hubei province. In total, 217 medical teams with more than 42,000 medical personnel were dispatched to Hubei from around the country, along with equipment and supplies. The central government coordinated the shipment of around 17,000 ventilators to Hubei. The result was that the epicenter of the outbreak never experienced any major shortage of ventilators.
An enormous new hospital with 1,000 beds was built in Wuhan in 10 days. Following that, 16 additional makeshift hospitals with a total of 13,000 beds were built across the city in existing structures such as convention centers to care for mild-symptom patients in a quarantined environment. Sinopec, the state-owned energy giant that produces raw materials for industrial masks, took 35 days to redesign and repurpose its production lines to support medical mask production. Automakers also used their assembly lines to pump out masks and other medical supplies. Mask production went from 20 million per day in January to 116 million in late February.
So who did these things? The doctors and nurses who were sent to Hubei from around the country were mostly state employees working in state-operated hospitals. The companies that built the hospitals and produced most of the masks were state-owned enterprises.
The entire operation was incredibly well coordinated for such a large country. From Beijing, the central government rolled out measures in the provinces on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. The provincial governments were given orders with the leeway to adapt them to local conditions. Then the provincial governments did the same downward to cities and counties. It also worked the other way around: Local governments sent their findings and suggestions to Beijing. The makeshift hospital idea, for example, came from an academic team studying the situation in Wuhan and found that existing hospitals were not enough to deal with a large number of mild-symptom patients who posed a contagion threat. They sent the findings and proposal to Beijing, and it was approved and ordered to be implemented within 24 hours.
The state also moved quickly to soften the economic impact of the crisis. In addition to direct subsidies to companies, the government adjusted the enforcement practices of the labor law so companies could be relieved of their obligations to pay employees full salaries when there was no business. In exchange, companies were asked not to lay off employees and to keep them on the payroll with minimum wage and health benefits. Businesses were entitled to have their rents reduced or even waived if their landlords were state-owned enterprises.
The party has played the central role. Through this crisis, three individuals emerged from relative obscurity to national fame. Li, the initial whistleblower whose warnings were not heeded, died of COVID-19. Zhong Nanshan, the national public health czar for the pandemic, has been the public face of the counter-epidemic operation, similar to Anthony Fauci in the United States. Zhang Wenhong is the Huashan Hospital doctor who has been leading the counter-epidemic operation in Shanghai. They are from very different personal backgrounds and geographical regions and of different generations but share two things in common. First, they are all doctors. Second, they are all veteran members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The uproar reached a boiling point when the Wuhan doctor who first warned about the coronavirus and was muzzled by the police succumbed to the virus.
ReplyDeleteThe party has been the most conspicuous presence throughout this ordeal. Zhang works in the hospital two blocks from my house. He was recorded in a video speaking about the organization of the medical team for the defense of Shanghai. In his booming voice, he said, “Party members go first, no questions asked!” The video went viral.
Day in and day out, the Chinese internet was flooded with images of party-member volunteers swearing their oaths before the CCP flag on their way to Wuhan, pledging to place the lives of others before their own. Of the 496 health workers and volunteers who died on the front lines as of April 29, 328 were party members.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is a “good emperor.” Some years ago, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama coined the term “bad emperor problem.” It was meant to theorize that in an authoritarian political system, even if there can be good rulers, there is little to prevent a bad ruler from gaining power and ruining the country. This is not the time or the place to debate this theory. But one thing I do know now is that Xi is a “good emperor.”
On Jan. 28, Xi used a meeting with the head of the World Health Organization to tell the nation that he was directly in charge of the counter-epidemic operation. At that time, the future had never seemed bleaker and more uncertain, but opportunism and shirking responsibility are not within this leader’s character. The decision to lock down Wuhan and Hubei carried such enormous consequences that it was likely to have been his and his alone. And it turned out to be the decision that saved the nation from a devastating catastrophe. In an unprecedented practice, he chaired the Politburo Standing Committee meetings to issue policy directives and made them public. He wore a mask in his public appearances. He held a videoconference with 170,000 front-line government officials and volunteers. Indeed, the “people’s war” was led by him personally in front of the entire nation.
As a strong leader, Xi certainly has had his share of detractors, especially internationally but also domestically, and will no doubt continue to have them. Western media and governments have attacked his government for the tightening of restrictions on media and political dissent and for its controversial policies toward Muslims in Xinjiang. Some domestic opponents disagree with the recent moves to centralize political power in Beijing. But among my circle of business acquaintances and political commentators in China, even some of his harshest critics have acknowledged his stewardship during this once-in-a-generation crisis. I believe his popularity among the general public will soar after this.
Xi’s leadership has raised the public credibility of the entire government. It is clear that mistakes were made at the early stages that resulted in a delay in responding to the outbreak. And there was justified anger, especially at the apparent silencing of the whistleblower Li. But it is also true that China was caught by surprise by a virus about which little was known. Now, as Chinese watch in horror as many countries’ governments struggle to contain the pandemic even after 1.4 billion people showed the world what was coming for months on end, their own government’s initial mistakes—though worthy of examination and reflection—no longer feel so unforgivable. China is fortunate to have the right leader at the right time.The Chinese internet was flooded with images of volunteers swearing their oaths before the Chinese Communist Party flag on their way to Wuhan.
ReplyDeleteFor me, as for so many around the world, COVID-19 is certainly the most extraordinary event of my lifetime. It has certainly impacted me as a businessman and a student of politics. But it had the most emotional effect on me as a parent. My children attend public schools in Shanghai. On Jan. 27, Shanghai announced the delay of the start of the spring semester that had been scheduled for February. Being kids, they celebrated. But their euphoria did not last long. About two weeks later, the Shanghai Education Bureau ordered the reopening of schools only 10 days behind the regular schedule—but online. They had adapted, in record time, the entire curriculum for online learning. The new materials were sent to us by email to be printed out. My home inkjet printer died on the second day. I bought an industrial-strength laser printer and printed more than a thousand pages of middle school textbook materials.
Every school day now starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. Chinese, math, physics, English—one session after another in front of the computer screen as on regular school days. Homework has to be turned in every evening by taking pictures of the workbook and uploading it onto the school system. The next morning, they are graded and corrections demanded. Having the kids at home is nice. But the workload on us parents is brutal. I have never screamed at the kids so much.
On the morning of March 19, I woke up and reached for my phone to check the coronavirus numbers from the day before, as I had every morning for almost two months. That morning, I saw a total of 80,928 confirmed cases in China and 3,245 cumulative deaths. The total number of new confirmed cases: zero!
I rushed downstairs to tell the kids the good news. As I walked into the dining room, which served as their makeshift classroom, I was stopped by the prelude to the national anthem. My children were standing before their computer screens in their full school uniforms, observing the daily flag-raising ceremony. I had not cried in a very long time.
"Our understanding of China has been dominated by the idea that an authoritarian one-party-state is incapable of retaining genuine public trust" unquote
ReplyDeleteExactly! What the Chinese leaders did, and how the people responded during this crisis must have rattled the West, whose preoccupation had been the propagating of the idea of inciting the Chinese people to revolt. They were trying to start the ball rolling in Hong Kong and hoping it will spread to the mainland. It did the opposite.
The writing was already on the wall much earlier, when so many Chinese in poor areas were lifted out of poverty, showing that the authoritarian one-party-state system can work, and indeed works better than capitalist idealism in theory. This is again a very sore point that the West has been trying to counter but unsuccessfully, meaning that the demonization of communism is not working as planned, after so many decades of slick slogans that tried to elevate capitalism over communism on all fronts.
Inapt, incompetent, arrogant, boastful, unscrupulous liar Donald John Trump has just threatened again to cut off ties with China because of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
ReplyDeleteThis dirty pussy-grabber is really desperate. His rating keeps dropping by the days. He has to divert his voters attention towards a common enemy.
Ex-US President Obama has criticised Trump's handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic as the most disastrous. And the voters are beginning to wake up.
The 600 years curse is about to end and the West will become pariah states. They have ruled the world for nearly 600 years, controlling everything, oppressing and attacking any country they wished. They would a few pieces of crumbs to crony countries to reward them for betraying their neighbours or their countries or ethnicity.
ReplyDeleteNo country can be better than them. Any country trying to do so would be crushed. They decide the fate of other countries, to sanction, to cripple, to start wars, to do regime change, to invade at will.
These vile acts would not be so easy anymore with the rise of China. China will challenge them in every thing to provide a better option to the people of the world. No more bully and oppression, no more wars, no more white lies.
For the past three decades what has China been doing to and for the rest of the world. Compare that with what the US has done for the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteChina had been providing developments all over South Asia, Africa, South America and Central Asia, building infrastructures and providing financial as well as engineering skills. How many wars or countries have China tangled with or destroyed, short of minor skirmishes with neighbours. How may Chinese warships have sailed near the US shores to provoke confrontation?
Compare that with what USA has done over the same period. Wars, more wars, destruction of cities and people's lives, instigating regime changes, subterfuge, sanctioning countries and creating unrest on every corner of the world. Nothing positive but lying, cheating and stealing.
If the world cannot see the obvious, I think we are really doomed for extinction, since humans now cannot even differentiate between right and wrong.
If the US further blocks key technology supply to Huawei, China will activate the "unreliable entity list", restrict or investigate US companies such as Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple, and suspend the purchase of Boeing airplanes.
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