Proof the Coronavirus is a Biological weapon
Small victories for Hong Kong
And outrage against the Chinese Communist Party.
That and more on this week’s China News Headlines
This is China Uncensored.
I’m Chris Chappell.
The coronavirus.
Is it a biological weapon?
For a long time, there have been conspiracy theories
that the coronavirus that spread from Wuhan,
China was a biological weapon.
That’s even a conspiracy theory t
he Chinese Communist Party has pushed.
The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman tweeted
the US army brought the coronavirus to Wuhan.
Keep in mind, he’s not just any old crackpot conspiracist.
He’s the Foreign Ministry Spokesman for a country.
But we’ll never know for sure if the coronavirus
was a biological weapon, right?
Well, proof has just come out that it is a biological weapon.
Just not the kind of bioweapon you were thinking of.
See, most of the United States’ medical supplies
and generic drugs are made in China.
Great choice, by the way.
And now, Communist Party mouthpiece Xinhua
is saying they can impose pharmaceutical export controls to quote,
throw America into the Mighty sea of the coronavirus.
When the Communist Party threatens to attack America
by withholding critical medical supplies
needed to stop a deadly virus outbreak—
that is a biological weapon.
If only America had been willing to do
the Chinese Communist Party’s bidding,
this would never have happened!
Speaking of not doing the Communist Party’s bidding,
President Donald Trump.
He loves to call it the Chinese Virus.
And the Communist Party hates that.
“Recently some U.S. politicians have linked
the novel coronavirus to China.
This is a smear of China.
We are very angry and strongly oppose it.”
Yeah, “some U.S. politicians”—not gonna name names here.
Now, I recommend you watch my recent episode
“Coronavirus: How China Spun Criticism Into Racism”
for a better understanding of what the Communist Party is trying to do here.
But in a way, I agree with the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman.
I think President Trump needs to stop calling it the “Chinese virus.”
That’s because we’re just getting into stupid fights about
whether saying Chinese virus or Wuhan virus is racist.
Which turn into fights about whether Trump is racist.
Which turn into fights about whether *everyone* is racist.
That is exactly what the Chinese Communist Party wants!
Because it means we’re so busy fighting each other
that we’re losing sight of the bigger picture here.
I don’t advocate calling the coronavirus
the Wuhan virus or the Chinese virus.
It’s unfair to the Chinese people who are victims
of their authoritarian regime—
the one that caused this problem in the first place,
by covering up the spread of the virus and silencing
people who tried to get the truth out.
Let’s not forget that it’s the Chinese Communist Party—the CCP—
that’s ultimately responsible for this pandemic and all the people
who will die from it.
So I say, from now on, we call it the CCP Coronavirus.
All the cool kids are doing it!
Which is why I have to tip my hat to the law firm in Florida
that is suing the Chinese regime for their coronavirus coverup.
“[The Chinese Government] suppressed information
rom the global medical community that could have averted
or minimized the damage that has been done.”
So props to that Florida law firm.
Because if there’s one foe the Chinese Communist Party
should be afraid of, it’s Florida Man.
I assume that’s what the lawyers in Florida look like.
Of course, the Chinese Communist Party completely denies
the ridiculous accusations that they would ever
want to suppress information.
On a totally unrelated note,
China just announced it will expel American journalists.
That includes, “American journalists working for The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post”
That is a blow.
I wonder if those media companies will continue
taking money from China’s propaganda department
to publish the Communist Party propaganda
called China Watch in their newspapers.
Chinese authorities say their decision to expel American journalists
is because the Trump Administration put restrictions
on Chinese state-run media operating in the US—
because, you know, they’re Chinese state-run media,
and therefore by definition agents of the state.
But even those restrictions did not expel all the journalists,
or force those Chinese media to shut down.
Still, China’s foreign Ministry Spokesman
said this is ultimately America’s fault.
“The steps China has taken are countermeasures
to the US’s unreasonable oppression of Chinese media.
China is compelled to take them.
China shouldn't be responsible for the cause
and the result of the current situation.
If any American media has any issue,
please raise it to the US government.”
That’s a tall order.
I can’t remember a time when American media
have ever been willing to criticize the US government.
But the Trump Administration is not taking China’s actions lying down.
“U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday hit back at China
over its decision to kick out American journalists from the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.”
“The Chinese will tell you that they want
more people to know about their country,
yet they continue to take actions like the one you've seen today,
where they deny the world the capacity to know
what's really going on inside another country.”
I can’t imagine what the Chinese Communist Party
would be trying to cover up.
The Chinese Communist Party has been trying to spin
the coronavirus at home and abroad.
You know, focus less on the coverup and more on how swift, decisive,
transparent, and cooperative China’s coronavirus response has been.
In other words, they are lying through their teeth.
State-media have also been praising...their state-media reporters,
for their brave coverage of the epidemic.
Like Liao Jun.
Only problem is, Chinese people hate all of it!
“Chinese social media has recoiled with anger at the lionization of Ms. Liao,
saying she helped propagate fictions that clouded
the severity of the outbreak in its early days.”
And that anger is now flaring “into broader attacks
on the Communist Party’s muzzling of the news media.”
So now, the Party will do what it always does
when its propaganda backfires.
Attack the critics!
“Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds
for questioning as an assault on online speech continues.”
That includes any pesky tycoons who criticize Xi Jinping.
Wait, are we actually getting to the point where Chinese citizens
are less likely than Americans to believe
Chinese Communist Party propaganda?
Speaking of the Party’s coronavirus coverup,
remember Dr. Li Wenliang?
He was detained by the police after warning his colleagues
about the coronavirus on Chinese social media.
He later died of the coronavirus himself,
which sparked a huge backlash against the government in China.
Well, Chinese authorities have investigated Dr. Li’s case,
and guess who’s to blame?
The local police!
It was their fault.
And they will be dealt with accordingly.
The investigators also wanted to clear one little thing up.
You see, it appears that some “hostile forces”
are attacking the Communist Party by calling Dr. Li
a “hero” for standing up to the system.
Well, the joke’s on those hostile forces,
because Dr. Li was a member of the Chinese Communist Party!
Is that really the message you want to go with?
Dr. Li was a member of the Communist Party,
which was ultimately responsible
for the spread of the disease that killed him.
So there!
We showed you!
In other news,
now might be a good time to quit the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaking of getting rid of the Chinese Communist Party,
here’s an update about Hong Kong.
You may remember how the city has been embroiled
in massive protests against the Chinese regime for nine months.
Well, according to a Reuters Exclusive,
what we all thought was happening turns out to have been true—
“Officers from China’s top internal security force—
the People’s Armed Police—
joined Hong Kong police on the frontlines.”
Color me shocked.
But another blow might be coming to the forces of evil in Hong Kong.
Remember back in August when Hong Kong police
attacked protesters on the Hong Kong subway?
Well, a court has ordered the subway operator to release CCTV footage of it.
Authorities claimed there was no police brutality.
Really?
Well, now they might have a harder time denying that.
Another small victory for the Hong Kong protest movement: Chan Kin-man,
one of the leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement,
has been released from an 11-month prison sentence
he got for peacefully protesting.
He said he had no regrets.
But Europe is about to have some major regrets.
France is going to allow Huawei gear in its 5G network.
The US has called Huawei a national security threat,
since it’s closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party.
You know, the one responsible for the CCP Coronavirus
that’s spreading around the world.
I guess France surrendered to the pressure.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also a fan of Huawei.
She’s trying to block other lawmakers from blocking it.
It’s like there’s a split in Berlin,
where one side is in favor of the communists.
Speaking of which,
Merkel says there’s no reason to be suspicious
of gifts of medical supplies from China.
I believe this is how they’re shipping them.
Part of the problem with getting medical supplies from China
is how the Chinese regime uses them as propaganda.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying
shared this video of Italians singing thank you China
as the Chinese national anthem plays.
The problem is, it’s fake.
Or as the Italians say, fake news.
With the CCP coronavirus happening,
many people have been forced to stay at home.
But even so, exercise is still important.
I would just think, military exercises might not be the priority.
Despite the pandemic,
the Chinese regime is still finding time to harass Taiwan.
Some things never change.
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This question comes from carbide149.
“Would you say that ordinary citizens are falling for China's lies
as much as media outlets and politicians have?”
Ah, that’s actually a question with a very encouraging answer.
Some Western media are unfortunately
eating up the propaganda about racism,
and the lies that China’s response to the coronavirus
was so much better than the West’s.
But as I mentioned earlier in the episode,
many Chinese people are furious at the Chinese regime.
China was the worst hit by the CCP Coronavirus pandemic.
And the response by the regime has been more brutal than helpful.
A lot of people in China also know the Party tried to cover it up,
and persecuted doctors who tried to blow the whistle.
And this reminds me of something Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng
told Shelley in an interview a couple months ago:
The people he’s in contact with in China all understand
that the Chinese Communist Party
is the cause of the problems in Chinese society.
They just can’t say so online, because they might be arrested.
But they know it, and they don’t like it.
So some day, I really think the Chinese Communist Party
will be taken down by the Chinese people.
And many reporters in the West will be left scratching their heads
wondering how it happened.
That’s how it went down with the Soviet Union.
That’s how it will go down with the Chinese Communist Party.
Thanks for your question Carbide149.
And thank you for watching.
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