In an extraordinary move, the Chinese (with the unforgivable assist by the Democrats) are attempting to shift blame for the Wuhan virus on to the United States. Extraordinary indeed. The origins of this pandemic was Wuhan, China. But it was the denial and cover-up of the illness by the Chinese government that led to the spread of the virus.
Back in January, Geller Report was one of the only news sites reporting on the unfolding health crisis in Wuhan and the Chinese cover-up. On January 23, we published,China’s Coronavirus is Much Worse Than You Think.
Geller Report, January 23, 2020:: The coronavirus in China is spreading, and largely could have been prevented. A town 7 km from where the virus was discovered in Wuhan had a state run banquet with 100,000 people eating off of the same dishes. This was two days after 49 cases were confirmed in Wuhan, China. The Chinese government is trying to save face, and now it is backfiring
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Inside China’s high-stakes campaign to smear the United States over coronavirus
If you listened to Chinese state-run media, you’d think President Trump went to China and released vials of COVID-19 on groups of unsuspecting men, women and children.
Beijing has been bending over backward trying to convince the world that the United States is the real culprit behind the quickly spreading virus that’s already claimed more than 4,600 lives across the globe.
It’s a high-stakes strategy for the Asian nation fighting to keep its superpower status amid a national lockdown and palpable anger over claims that Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, at first covered it up, triggering a worldwide health and economic crisis.
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The Chinese government has already published a book in English — with translations in the works in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic — touting its handling of the deadly disease.
“A Battle Against Epidemic: China Combatting COVID-19 in 2020” is a mishmash of glowing state media reports on the accomplishments of President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party and the dominance of the Chinese system in fighting the crisis.
At best, China’s aggressive new campaign can be chalked up to ambitious propaganda. At its worst, it’s a reckless display from a country that has actively misled the world while working overtime to save its own skin, foreign affairs expert Gordon G. Chang told Fox News.
Chang believes Beijing has been laying the groundwork for a PR attack against the United States for more than a month, first by throwing doubt on the origin of COVID-19 and second, by slamming America’s handling of previous diseases like the swine flu, which decimated China’s pork industry.
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On Sunday, Lin Songtian, China’s ambassador to South Africa, said: “Although the epidemic first broke out in China, it did not necessarily mean that the virus is originated from China, let alone ‘made in China.'”
Chinese officials have also pushed back on the expression “Wuhan coronavirus” — saying the name used frequently by U.S. conservative commentators unfairly stigmatizes the world’s most populous country.
Chang said it’s just another tactic in China’s playbook, carefully choreographed to make Americans look petty and racist.
“This an all-out assault on the United States,” Chang said.
In December, when the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, many media around the world began referring to it as the “Wuhan virus.” But last month, the World Health Organization renamed the illness COVID-19 so as not to link it to a specific location or group of people.
The name change didn’t stop some, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who blew past warnings and deliberately referred to it as the “Wuhan virus” after China’s foreign ministry called it “highly irresponsible” to do so.
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, went even further Wednesday.
“Unfortunately, rather than using best practices, this outbreak in Wuhan was covered up,” O’Brien said at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington. “There’s lots of open-source reporting from China, from Chinese nationals, that the doctors involved were either silenced or put in isolation, or that sort of thing, so that the word of this virus could not get out. It probably cost the world community two months.”
O’Brien said if experts would have had those two months to get ahead of the spread of the virus, “I think we could have dramatically curtailed what happened both in China and what’s now happening across the world.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the Communist Party is pointing the finger at the U.S. so it can dampen discontent back home.
“The Chinese military portal Xilu.com recently published an article baselessly claiming that the virus is ‘a biochemical weapon produced by the U.S. to target China,’” Rubio said.
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Well what would you expect the ChiComm government to do if they had to cover up a mass killing by blaming a virus? As long as your focus is on the virus, they win.
Palestinian flag of DNC is not visible on that photo.
The democrat party ruins anything they touch – intentionally.
Even IF they wash their hands before & after!, ….the d-bags!
China has been exporting diseases for a long time. Bird flu, swine flu……… the Chinese character for “home” is the radical for pig with a roof over it because pigs were kept at home. Then there is the concept of the “wet market.” How about going to your local food store and selecting live chickens or other animals for dinner? Bats anyone????
Exactly, rambler, in this politically correct world to blame China is akin to racism. Yet, what you say is bang on. Ironically, our so-called Democratic Party aligns itself with China, or is it ironic? I had to chuckle at some local politicos who condemned anyone who blames China; there solution was to dine in the local China town. Now, it is Trump’s evildoing, so say China and its appendage the faux-Democrats. The latter of which desires America to become a mirror-image of China or some other /Communist/totalitarian state.
I just read that the deadly ‘Spanish’ flu a century ago, was ALSO from china, but Named Spanish because They were the ONLY authorities admitting the truth…..so They got saddled with the name!
Indeed, Tom, the so-called Spanish flu was from China. Propagating the fake-news, of course, continues to this day.
Yup.
What is that old saying: The one who smelt it, dealt it. I think we have a classic case of China trying to blame others for their own screw up. Good luck with that.
This old saying reminds me of the German version: “Wer es hat zuerst gerochen dem ist es aus den Arsch gekrochen.”…….. Sounds good, doesn’t it ??
Ja wohl!!
We should start calling it CCvirus, for communist China virus!!!
At least with the Democrats the Chinese have a very reliable partner in spreading the lies about the corona virus. The Democrats were running out of lies about Trump so this case is coming for them just at the right time. Most likely they will call for another impeachment. Buying a new pack of witnesses is going to be costly but the Clinton fund may look after that.
The Chinese military correctly identify the Wujan virus as a bioweapon. Of course, they deny it was their bioweapons lab located in Wuhan who either accidentally or deliberately released it. More Likely it was done deliberately so as to give cover to the Chicoms to their failing economy that now they can blame on the plague rather than their own mismanagement. Now, they are blaming it on the US. As for the outbreak in Iran, it may be the Chinese want a regime change as well. It must be tiring for them to work with the mad mullahs and they may have replacements lined up. In exchange the Chicoms get free oil to spur their economy.
Always remember this:
Demacrooks are not on our side.
Hey Democrats do you remember the CIVIL WAR, do you really want to test yourselves ?
The left is our worst enemy. They are more dangerous than the virus, all the virus’ and China combined. They are willingly complicite in aiding any and all enemies of this nation in their desperation to regain power!