Communists lie. It has been a Communist platform to lie to
entice hatred of the world’s population toward Capitalistic marketing and
Christian influence which actually brings Liberty and free will. The People’s
Republic of China (aka Mainland China or Communist China) has
developed into a Communist super power that probably has Lenin (more details in The Epoch Times – registration/subscription
may be required), Stalin, Khrushchev et al; (SEE ALSO ‘“The Goal of Socialism is Communism” ~Vladimir Lenin –
‘FEAR’ The Bern! And Learn About His Perversions’
By Geri Ungurean) rolling in their
Soviet atheist jealous graves.
In full disclosure, America’s Dems have clandestinely
adopted Communist ways and repackaged it under Democratic Socialism. ERGO, just
like Communists, Dems Lie. Those who support Dems – like the MSM – are liars
too.
The Communist liars in China are trying to portray
themselves as Coronavirus saviors when the truth is the ChiCom liars are
COVID-19 perpetrators. Giulio Meotti writing for the Gatestone Institute exposes
Chinese Communist duplicity.
JRH 3/29/20
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The West Needs to Wake Up to China's Duplicity
March 28, 2020 at 5:00 am
§ In an article in Xinhua, one of the Chinese Communist Party's
mouthpieces, Beijing threatened to halt pharmaceutical exports, after which
America would be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus... — Yanzhong
Huang, senior fellow for global health, Council on Foreign Relations, Twitter,
March 4, 2020.
§ China's leaders are probably hoping that you cannot challenge
a powerhouse that is selling you most of your vital medications.
§ "Hidden behind declarations of solidarity, China plans
to buy out our troubled companies and infrastructure" — Bild, March
19, 2020.
§ Italy, a country hit hard by China's coronavirus pandemic, is
now at the center of a strategic Chinese propaganda campaign. Beijing has sent
doctors and supplies to Italy and is doing the same all over Europe. In Italy
you can see posters saying, "Go, China!" China is trying to buy our
silence and complicity. Sadly, that is already taking place.
§ China is not helping at this point out of
"solidarity". The Chinese regime is now seeking to portray itself as
the world's savior. Beijing, at the beginning of the pandemic, did not care
about the lives of even its own people: it was busy censoring the news.
§ "The West is so tolerant, passive, accommodating and
naive towards Beijing. Westerners... are seduced like an old man in front of a
young girl.... Europe shows all its weakness. It does not realize that the
Chinese offensive threatens its freedom and values". — Liao Yiwu, Chinese
writer exiled in Berlin, Le Point International, April 6, 2019.
The Chinese Communist Party is the "central threat of
our times", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo astutely said in
January. Back then, coronavirus was already spreading throughout China and over
the world; the Communist Party's attempt to hide the epidemic proved that
Pompeo was more than right. "My concern is that this cover-up, this
disinformation that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in, is still denying
the world the information it needs so that we can prevent further cases or
something like this from recurring again", Pompeo added this
week.
Had China responded to the outbreak
three weeks earlier than it did, cases of coronavirus could have been reduced
by 95%, according to a study by the
University of Southampton. In those three weeks, China was busy hiding the
truth. According to
Steve Tsang, director of the University of London's SOAS China Institute,
"It is the cover-up of the Communist Party for the first two months or so
which created conditions to generate a global pandemic".
Chinese leaders, however, seemed obsessed only with the
sustainability of their totalitarian regime, and as eager to silence any
criticism as they have been in the past. Since
January, the evidence of China's deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus in
Wuhan has become a matter of public record.
The Chinese government censored and detained
brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm. One of
China's richest entrepreneurs, Jack Ma, recently disclosed
that China hid at least one-third of the coronavirus cases.
China has been able to grow into a superpower because it
adopted economic practices from the West. No other country ever achieved such
rapid economic and social progress for such a sustained period of time.
However, hopes placed by the West in the Chinese market also nourished a
dangerous mirage. We in the West thought that a modernizing China with a rising
GDP would also democratize and come to respect transparency, pluralism and
human rights. Instead, the mirage turned into a disaster as we watched China
become even more of a "totalitarian state".
The nature of the Chinese regime -- its ban on the free press
and all critical voices;
the absolute domination of the Communist Party over social, spiritual and economic
actors; imprisoning minorities and crushing freedom of conscience
-- is also contributing to the emergence of this public health disaster. The
cost, in terms of human lives and world's GDP, is immense.
The Chinese government's complicity in the pandemic is now
an opportunity for the West to reevaluate its ties to Beijing. According to
Guy Sorman, a French-American expert on China:
"Like useful idiots, we have
not only helped the Party prosper but, even worse, we have given up on our
humanitarian, democratic, and spiritual values in doing so."
"It is time", stated
the American columnist, Marc A. Thiessen, "to immunize our economy and
national security from our dependence on a deceitful regime".
China is waging a double information war: one abroad and one
for its own public, both led by the Chinese authorities with President Xi
Jinping at its head. They apparently see the West as weak and submissive. We
have been.
China seems to believe that it is rising, while the West is
in decline. "We find ourselves in what Germans call a Systemwettbewerb,
a 'competition of systems' between liberal democracies and China's
authoritarian state capitalism, which is increasingly projecting its absolute
claim to power beyond its borders", said Thorsten
Benner, co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute in
Berlin. The Cold War with Russia was clearer.
"We had an ideological and
security antagonist who was not an economic competitor. There was a Chinese
wall between the economies of the West and the Soviet Union. Today, we are
confronted with an opponent who is a powerful economic competitor and
intricately involved in the political economy of the West. At the same time, we
also depend on cooperation with China on transnational issues such as climate
change and pandemics. China's authoritarian state capitalist system with its
hegemonic ambitions is by far the most difficult strategic challenge the West
has faced to date".
According to
historian Niall Ferguson, "China today poses a bigger economic challenge
than the Soviet Union ever did". The Soviet Union could never rely on a
dynamic private sector, as China is doing. In some markets -- such as
technology -- China is already ahead of the United States. Not only that; the
Chinese economy, the world's second-largest, is more closely integrated with
the West than the Soviet one ever was. China's totalitarian one-party rule
allows greater personal freedoms, at least at the moment, than the Soviet Union
did. The coronavirus epidemic is, in fact, partly a consequence of the freedom
of movement Chinese citizens enjoy.
China has also been able to convince much of the West that
it is not an enemy. Beijing's goal has appeared to be to try to draw the West
-- and the rest of the world
-- into its economic and ideological orbit. China opened markets in the West
while it offered to its own people a kind of devil's bargain: give up your
ideas and principles and you will enjoy material improvement and societal
security. Meanwhile, China became an industrial and technological behemoth, a
feat the Soviet Union could only dream about.
Consider, for instance, pharmaceuticals. According to Yanzhong Huang,
a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Chinese
companies supply the US with more than 90% of its antibiotics, vitamin C and
ibuprofen, as well as 70% of acetaminophen and 40-45% of heparin. The US was
never dependent on the Soviet Union for that.
In an article in
Xinhua, one of the Chinese Communist Party's mouthpieces, Beijing threatened to
halt pharmaceutical exports, after which the US would be "plunged into the
mighty sea of coronavirus". The Xinhua article was actually entitled,
"Be bold: the world owes China a thank you."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was right to blast members
of the American elite for selling out their country to Chinese economic
interests.
China's leaders are probably hoping that you cannot
challenge a powerhouse that is selling you most of your vital medications.
Italy, a country hit hard by China's coronavirus pandemic,
is now at the center of a strategic Chinese propaganda campaign. Beijing has sent doctors
and supplies to Italy and is doing the same all over Europe. In
Italy, you can see posters saying, "Go, China!" ["Forza China!"]
China is trying to buy our silence and complicity. Sadly, that is already
taking place. In February, while some Italian officials (on the political
right) were urging Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to quarantine schoolchildren
in the north who were just returning from holidays in China, Italy's highest
officials were busy trying to please Beijing. Italy's President, Sergio
Mattarella; Minister for Culture, Dario Franceschini, and Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, hosted a concert in Rome for "Italian-Chinese friendship".
China's President Xi Jinping warmly thanked them.
China is not helping at this point out of
"solidarity". The Chinese regime is now seeking to portray itself as
the world's savior. Beijing, at the beginning of the pandemic, did not care
about the lives of even its own people: it was busy censoring the news.
"Hidden behind declarations of solidarity, China plans
to buy out our troubled companies and infrastructure", according to
Germany's leading newspaper, Bild. Italy was the first G-7 country to
sign up for China's global investment program, a deal that rightly raised
concerns in the US. China seems to be ready to continue its expansion into the
Italy's economy and strategic interests.
China's Communist Party also seems to be at war with the
free flow of information internationally. The regime, in the most sweeping
media ejection from China since the death of Mao Zedong, recently expelled US
journalists. Beijing has also tried to shift the blame for the pandemic to the
US by saying that coronavirus originated with US military personnel in Wuhan.
Lijian Zhao, spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, posted statements
to that effect on Chinese social media and Twitter. The coronavirus crisis is
now a battleground for Chinese propaganda.
The paradox is that the Global Times, a media outlet
of the Chinese Communist Party, spreads false anti-US propaganda on Twitter, which is banned in China.
Twitter, meanwhile, banned the
website Zero Hedge, for publishing an article linking a Chinese scientist to
the outbreak of coronavirus. Twitter also unfortunately decided that
China's Communist Party does not violate the rules of social media by spreading
lies against the US.
Already a few years ago, in 2013, a secret Chinese Communist
Party directive known as Document No. 9
called for the rejection of seven Western ideas, such as "Western
constitutional democracy", "universal values" of human rights,
Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation,
ardently pro-market "neo-liberalism," and "nihilist"
criticisms of the Party's questionable past. Targets to combat included
"Western embassies, consulates, media operations and nongovernmental
organizations". Huang Kunming, the Party's propaganda chief, attacks
"some Western countries who use their technological advantages and
dominance of discourse that they have accumulated over a long period to peddle
so-called 'universal values'". China's Education Minister Yuan Guiren, a
former president of Beijing Normal University, threw in:
"Never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our classes".
In speeches and official documents, the President Xi talks
about a struggle between "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
and "Western anti-China forces" with their "extremely
malicious" ideas of freedom, democracy and human rights. The West seems to
be their target. According to a new study by
the International Republican Institute:
"The Chinese Communist
Party... is employing a unique set of tactics in the economic and information
domains that undermines many developing countries' democratic institutions and
future prosperity as their dependence on China grows."
China evidently understands how to use Western media for its
own propaganda. "The Vatican and the Western business elite", wrote Michael
Brendan Dougherty, "once instrumental in the West's winning the Cold War,
have been brought to heel by the Chinese Communist party". The Chinese
regime has succeeded where the Soviet regime failed. Last December, a
six-year-old girl in London preparing Christmas cards found a message inside:
"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu Prison China, forced to work
against our will", read the
handwritten note. "Please help us and notify human rights
organization". Western capitalism has even become complicit
with Chinese slavery.
Western brands are not alone in caving in out of fear of
"offending"
the Communist Party. Western culture has been eagerly submitting itself to self-censorship about China.
"The West is so tolerant, passive, accommodating and naive towards
Beijing," said Liao
Yiwu, a Chinese writer exiled in Berlin.
"Westerners look at China with
incredulous eyes, they are seduced like an old man in front of a young girl.
Everyone trembles before Chinese omnipotence. Europe shows all its weakness. It
does not realize that the Chinese offensive threatens its freedom and
values".
China's embassy in the Czech Republic is now financing a
study course at Charles University, the most prestigious in the country.
British universities are today largely dependent on Chinese students;
conservative estimates put their combined tuition fees at about $1.75 billion.
Australia is now even more reliant, with 200,000 Chinese students. If they go
back to China or if Chinese donations
stop coming to these faculties, they stand to lose about $4 billion.
The 1,500
branches of the Confucius Institute that China's regime has established in 140
countries offer language and "cultural" programs. However, according
to Matt Schrader, a China analyst with the Alliance for Securing Democracy,
these institutes are "propaganda tools". Last
October, Belgium banned the
head of Confucius Institute in Brussels, Xinning Song, after security services
accused him of spying for Beijing.
In 2013, when the University of Sydney shut down a
talk by Tibet's Dalai Lama on campus, many saw the university's links to
Chinese interests as being involved in the lobbying efforts to stop the
previously approved event. Topics such as Tibet, Taiwan independence, or the
dissident Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, are taboo.
According to a Bloomberg report, China is also
infiltrating Europe's political landscape
by supporting political parties and inviting politicians to China. President
Xi, taking his ideological battle abroad, even donated a
statue of Karl Marx to his German hometown Trier on the 200th anniversary of
Marx's birth.
Beijing, unsurprisingly, has been using Western multilateral
institutions to its own advantage. As Michael Collins detailed in a report for
the Council on Foreign Relations, Beijing has expanded its presence in the
World Health Organization. "China's WHO contributions have grown by 52%
since 2014 to approximately $86 million", Collins states.
"This is largely due to
China's increase in assessed contributions which are based on a country's
economic development and population. However, China has also slightly increased
voluntary contributions from $8.7 million in 2014 to approximately $10.2
million in 2019".
Like the former Soviet Union, China now seems to be building
a giant apparatus of control. They call it the "Internet police".
Try to imagine the former East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, using the most
advanced surveillance system in the world: This is China in 2020.
Communist dictatorships always end up following the same
script. The Soviet writer Boris Pasternak
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature but the communist regime prevented
him from receiving it. In China, literary critic, writer, poet, and human
rights activist Liu Xiaobo
was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace but was never able to receive it: he died under
guard in a Chinese hospital. The Soviet Union
had forced-labor camps just as China does.
Chinese dissident Harry Wu, who endured 19 years in jail, compared the
Chinese camps (laogai) to the Soviet gulag and Nazi concentration camps.
In the Soviet Union, writers, politicians, generals and
doctors who were silenced and executed under Stalin, were later "rehabilitated" by the Soviet
leaders after Stalin's death. The Chinese Communist Party just "exonerated"
Dr. Li Wenliang who warned about the coronavirus outbreak. He was accused of
"making false comments and disturbing the social order", then forced
to recant, and soon after, at the age of 33, died of the disease. It is a
shameful attempt by the Chinese officials to whitewash their own image.
In a column last week for the Spanish daily El Pais,
the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa wrote about
coronavirus:
"Nobody seems to be warning
that none of this could have happened in the world if popular China were a free
country and democratic rather than a dictatorship".
Vargas Llosa then likened the epidemic outbreak to Russia's
Chernobyl disaster during the Soviet era. Both dictatorships censored and silenced
information about the crises. In response, Beijing's regime not only called
Vargas Llosa "irresponsible",
but also banned his
books from Chinese e-book platforms. Vargas Llosa has warned Western
"fools" not to believe in China, "the free market with a
political dictatorship", and that "what happened with the coronavirus
should open the eyes of the blind".
The risk now is that, instead of Chernobyl which led, in
part, to Soviet Union's downfall, China's communist regime will enjoy reinforcement
-- especially if, due to the coronavirus crisis, the American people in
November fail to support the first president in the last 40 years who has
openly challenged China.
The Western dream of a "renaissance of the Chinese nation"
has now turned into a globalized nightmare. Hundreds of millions across the
world are in lockdown; thousands are dead; the economies of Western countries
are paralyzed, with some on the verge of collapse. Empty shops and streets are
commonplace.
This might be what analysts call "the end of liberal order".
China's communists today are more capitalist than Marxist, at least at the
state level. President Xi has adopted "market Leninism" -- mixing a
state-run economy with a "terrifying form of totalitarianism".
The West needs to wake up to China's duplicity.
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor
for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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