The US announced new COVID-19 testing requirements on Wednesday (Dec 28) for all travellers from China, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of
a surge of infections....
In a statement explaining the restrictions, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited the surge in infections and what it said was a lack of adequate and transparent information from China, including genomic sequencing on the viral strains circulating in the country....
“What we want to avoid is having a variant enter into the US and spread like we saw with delta or omicron,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
But the CDC's action may be less about stopping a new variant from crossing US borders and more about increasing pressure on China to share more information, said Dr David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, adding he hopes the restrictions "aren’t kept in place longer than they need to be"....CNA
The USA is like a colony of lepers of continental scale and fearing someone coming from a country with only a handful of cases and with the population locked inside a cocoon away from the few lepers. America has more than 100 million infected cases and more than 1 million deaths due to Covid.
China has only about 100,000 cases and slighty more than 5,200 deaths. And as usual, the political animals are crying foul, fearing being infected by new variants from China. What a load of bull shit. The whole of America is a basket case, with Covid virus of all kinds and shapes all over the country. What is there to fear where the virus is everywhere?
The people that needs to fear are the Chinese. They have been shielded from the virus floating all over the world. By opening up, they are extremely vulnerable from being infected by the rest of the world, especially basket case America. China should rightly forbid its citizens from visiting America. It is like walking into a leper colony, in this case a nation of lepers. And Americans should be banned from entering China. They are all diseased, infected by many types of the virus.
After two years of politicising and lies, and increasingly all the evidence is pointing towards America as the evil culprit that created and spread the virus, the Americans are still trying to politicise the opening up of China. China would be very careful not to be infected and if Chinese are infected, they would be measures to contain the spread.
Who is that professor that believed China had an infection of 37m cases in a day or 250m cases in 20 days? If this is true, only silly asses would believe so, China would be completely locked down. This would result in rioting all over the country. And the death toll would be in the millions. Such figures cannot be hidden from the public. There will be people dying on the streets, everywhere. Why would a professor lend his name to such a lame lie?
When would the Americans stop their silly lies when the world no longer believe in them? Even Singapore has stopped believing in American lies and would not put additional restrictions against Chinese visitors here. Australia and New Zealand too would not do so. It is sheer stupidity and politically motivated. The Chinese are not lepers, the Americans are, more than a 100 million infected with the virus, official data. The uncounted infected could be another 100 million.
Who is lying, who is not transparent? Why refused to open up Fort Detrick for investigation? Why refused to let UN investigate the 36 bioweapon labs in Ukraine? Why all the reports even on vaccine trials are classified as top secret and hidden from the public? Why the hiding?
The biggest proof of America as the most dangerous place, and a basket case, is the more than 100 million cases, and still growing furiously. And the questionable vaccines that were supposed to prevent infection but totally ineffective. Would the Americans come up with the silly argument that if not because of the 96% efficacy vaccine, it could have been worse?
Western media are out in full force to spread the vicious narrative that the virus is spreading across China like wild fire. Really? If this is true, there will be protest all over China. The recent lockdowns in a few cities already led to two minor protests, albeit incited and aided by foreign provocatuers. If the virus is spreading like tens of millions daily, there would be no need for foreign agitation to riot on the streets. The Chinese populace would be marching on the streets spontaneously. The few outbreaks in a few cities, including Beijing have been well managed and contained.
And for sure, the whole of China would be locked down if infection is as bad as reported by the mischievous western media. Instead, China is gradually opening up, loosening immigration controls of inward and outward movement of people.
The truth is not in the pages of western media. The truth is on the streets of China.
Photo credit to AFP.
This is supposedly the worst photo they could get of a public hospital in Chongqing, while claiming millions of cases in China. All they could show were a few beds. Remember the scenes in New York and American cities and India?
Photo credit to GT.
Ahead of the New Year's Day holidays, the first official holiday after China's optimization of COVID-19 control measures, business activities are picking up pace in many places across the country, including Beijing, with more and more people going out to eat, shop or travel,...
Below are some comments in RT on media and fake news
Once
Before Galileo proved that the Earth was just a planet of the Sun, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
People believe that the West is the center of World Truth. This is created on purpose by controlling the mass media by America and its allies.
Step by step China, Russia, India, Turkiye and other countries are opening people's eyes that the center of Truth is not the West. They are lying or hiding the truth.
All are lies created only to establish hegemony and plunder natural resources and colonize in new ways.
Virgile
Throwing massive fake news that look serious is one way of desorienting the media and the readers. MSM never apologize for fake news.. if the fake news become numerous the reader will loose trust in the media and they will less inclined to be brain washed.
Donald W.
I also use to believe my country (U.S.) about China, but after a lot of research into the origination of the Coronavirus, I came across a website called China Uncensored and started paying close attention to what they were reporting about Hong Kong and cross referencing that information, it became obviously that we were not being told the truth about anything. The deeper I dug, the more astonish I became at the sheer audacity of my Government to just outright lie to the American public and the ability to cover-up the truth and use mainstream media to spread propaganda. I started testing various websites to see if I could get reactions and boy did I. Even at one point the CIA actually comment that they were not as bad as I was making it out because they allow me to make comments. I knew at this point how much they literally control the narratives by that statement because never was it known before that U.S. citizens needed permission from the Central Intelligence Agency to exercise the Freedom of Speech. Here we are years later witnessing by the Twitter files that is exactly how it has been.
LooblooRossiya
Donald W., And the USGOV isn't just lying about China, they are lying about literally *everything*. And they make us pay them with our tax dollars for it. Americans inhabit a completely falsified reality where nothing is real.
Falesteeni
Well it’s obvious that who controls the Media controls the minds, Sadly ALL of Western population especially in the U.S.A have been programmed to not believe the truth and believe in lies ! If you repeat the lies so often and repeatedly the lies become the truth.....
Observer101
Most in the west don't care if they are being lied to. They only want to know that they are winning and are doing so because they are exceptional and are just in their causes. It doesn't matter if that is not true, so long as they can draw comfort in being told they are. Only a small percentage actually want to know the truth and would prefer to know they are not exceptional and are actually the bad guy. They would rather drink the Kool-Aid, rather than confront uncomfortable truths.
Budha
Mantacle, Perhaps if these people weren't so bloody lazy and actually questioned some of these clearly one eyed stories and did some fact checking the government controlled propaganda media in the West would become nothing more than what it truly is , a tabloid bullshit rag sold on street corners for the mindless sheep and flat Earthers
Is there still time for Zhang Zhongmou to change his mind and work with China, work with SMIC and challenge the American hegemony on chips? Or he has surrendered everything to the Americans, too late already?
When TSMC is uprooted, many supporting industries would go belly up unless they are needed and also uprooted to the US. There will be a vaccuum of sort in Taiwan, factories and land would be emptied. Many Taiwanese would be jobless.
The economy would be affected and the GDP would fall.
Temporary it looks like the Americans are the main winner. However, when the decoupling takes full effect, all the American based chip makers would only be selling to the American and European markets. The Chinese market would be closed to them. China would speed up in becoming self sufficient in chip making.
The American chip making industry would face a glut of chips with no one to sell to. China is the biggest consumer of chips, but would be no more.
In this chip war, it would be a clean divide and no more cross trading. All the American chip based manufacturers would have to downsize, cut jobs, cut capacities. What is the point of producing chips with no buyers, like Australian iron ore, wines, seafood, lobsters, without China absorbing the bulk of them, they could only sell retail.
Pity the chip manufacturers, the workers, and the farmers and fishermen in Australia. This is penny wise pound foolish. Like the stupid Europeans, heavily dependent on the Russians for cheap oil and gas and food and want to play punk with their main source of cheap supplies. Now feeling the pain.
The Americans would feel the pain very soon. TSMC would not need the capacity and the jobs. After a year or two, TSMC would have to retrench the workers and engineers they are recruiting now.
Someone said the American and European leaders are smart. Really? Fighting with the hands that feed them?