John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Posted April 22, 2020
I have posted China, W.H.O. & UN Coverup Parts ONE & TWO. Today will be Part THREE. I
suspect there could ad infinitum posts on this issue but for now Part
THREE will be the final instalment. There will be entire posts and videos to
decide for yourself if the ChiComs and accomplices accidently or deliberately
unleashed this Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic on the world. If deliberate, must understand
there was a political agenda that ingratiates the power goals of China’s
Communist government. Goals that didn’t even care about the lives of China’s
own citizens.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Last updated: April 21, 2020
o Ethiopia’s former Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign
Affairs
o Was elected Director-General of the World Health Organization
in 2017
o Nominated Robert Mugabe, the Marxist former president of
Zimbabwe, to serve as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador in 2017
o Purposely covered up three separate outbreaks of cholera in
Ethiopia, so as to avoid the impact that a public admission of a cholera
epidemic might have on tourism and on his party’s public image
o Was alleged to have helped facilitate a systematic genocide
targeting the Amhara people of Ethiopia
o Was accused of complicity in the commission of “crimes
against humanity”
o
Served as a propagandist
on behalf of Beijing in a massive coverup of China’s role in unleashing the
deadly worldwide coronavirus pandemic in 2019-20
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was born on March 3, 1965 in the
city of Asmara,
which at that time was in Ethiopia but is now the capital of neighboring
Eritrea. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from
the University of Asmara in 1986, a Master of Science degree in Immunology
of Infectious Diseases from the University of London in 1992, and a PhD in
Community Health from the University of Nottingham in 2000.
After graduating from college in 1986, Tedros joined the
Ethiopian government’s Ministry of Health as a junior public health
expert. Following the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the tyrant
who ruled Ethiopia from 1977-91, Tedros moved to London to attend graduate
school. He then returned to Ethiopia and in 2001 was appointed head of the
Tigray Regional Health Bureau. Two years later, he was named a State Minister
of Health.
From 2005-12, Tedros served as Ethiopia’s Federal Minister
of Health. During his tenure in that position, he purposely covered up three separate outbreaks
of cholera (in 2006, 2009, and 2011) by simply renaming the deadly epidemics as
“Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD)” – even after the diagnosis of Vibrio Cholerae,
the bacteria that causes cholera, had been confirmed. According to the Amhara Professionals Union, a
Washington-based organization that seeks to protect the political and economic
rights of the Amhara people of northwest Ethiopia: “[Tedros’s] priority … was to conceal the
impact a public admission of cholera epidemic might have on tourism and [the]
image of his Party, rather than protecting the international community and
attempting to reach out to the affected areas. Such a sad error due to lack of
judgment resulted in a nationwide epidemic.”
From 2012-16, Tedros was Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs. While holding that position, he greatly strengthened his own personal — as
well as his nation’s — ties to Communist China. Indeed, during Tedros’s years
as Foreign Minister, China loaned more than $13 billion to his impoverished
country — investments that were intended, in part, to make Ethiopia a strategic
bridge for Beijing’s imperialist designs on the African continent.
In December 2014, Tedros and Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi wrote a joint op-ed in which they
gave voice to the close bond that was developing between their respective
countries. Below is an excerpt from that piece:
“[O]n the basis of the principles
of equality, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, China and Ethiopia have
developed multi-dimensional relations, with people-to-people,
business-to-business, government-to-government, and party-to-party relations as
the cornerstones of the relationship. We are sincere friends, reliable
partners, and good brothers … each rejoicing in the successes the other has
achieved…. China has become the biggest foreign investor and the largest
trading partner of Ethiopia.”
In 2017, Tedros ran for the post of Director-General of the
World Health Organization (WHO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. But at that same
time, a report appeared in the Ethiopian
News & Views bulletin stating that he stood accused of complicity
in the commission of “crimes against humanity.” That charge was related
not only to the three aforementioned cholera coverups, but also
to allegations surrounding Tedros’s longstanding political
affiliation with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an organization that: (a) grew
out of the Marxist-Leninist League of
Tigray (MLLT); (b) was responsible for horrific atrocities in Ethiopia —
particularly targeting the Amhara ethnic group in the country’s northwest
region; and (c) had become Ethiopia’s principal ruling party. In the 1990s, the
U.S. government listed TPLF as a
terrorist group. The Global Terror Database continues to list it as such, given
the organization’s ongoing commission of armed attacks in rural areas.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned Amhara Professionals Union has issued many accusations of
systematic discrimination and human-rights abuses perpetrated by TPLF.
Tedros, for his part, is a high-ranking member of TPLF’s Central Committee,
or politburo. The “crimes against humanity” allegations pertain, in part,
to a systematic genocide that was carried out — at a time when Tedros was a
leading figure in Ethiopia’s public-health infrastructure — against the
Amhara, whom TPLF has identified as its “eternal enemy.” As the Amhara
Professionals Union explains:
“The candidate has treated his own
citizens differently based on their ethnicity…. [Tedros], who descends from
Tigre ethnic group, disfavored the ‘Amhara Regional State’ through poor health
care. For instance, disproportionately high mortality coupled with selective
application of contraceptives use has led to a selective reduction of the
growth rate of the Amhara people. Such disparities were created and gaps
increased across all measures of health in his leadership tenure. Of particular
importance is the unexplained 2.5 million decrease in the Amhara population [between 1994 and 2007] under his
healthcare leadership. The Amharas were victimized and punished due to their
ethnic background.”
TPLF provided millions of dollars for Tedros’s campaign to
become the leader of the WHO. Those funds – along with vital support from China
– propelled Tedros to victory when, at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in
May 2017, the WHO Member States elected him to a five-year term as their
Director-General, making him the first person to hold that position without a
medical degree. Notably, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping was the WHO’s
longtime goodwill ambassador – a post that enabled her to effectively promote
Chinese interests under the penumbra of the UN.
Upon formally taking the reins of the WHO on July 1, 2017,
Tedros outlined several priorities upon which he intended
to focus. Most notably: (a) universal health coverage (based on models in Ethiopia, Rwanda
and Sri Lanka), and (b) the health impacts of climate and environmental change.
On October 18, 2017, Tedros announced that he had chosen Zimbabwe’s former
president, the Marxist tyrant Robert Mugabe, to serve as
a WHO goodwill ambassador helping to
deal with non-communicable diseases in Africa. Tedros justified his selection
of Mugabe by lauding Zimbabwe as “a country that places universal health
coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide health
care to all.” But in fact, Zimbabwe’s health system, like everything else
under the broad shadow of Mugabe’s dictatorship, was in total collapse. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported
that Mugabe’s “utter mismanagement
of the economy has devastated health services” in his homeland. HRW’s Kenneth
Roth noted that “[w]hen you go to Zimbabwean hospitals, they lack the most
basic necessities.” And the prominent Zimbabwean politician Obert Gutu said:
“The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a shambolic state, it is an insult.
Mugabe trashed our health delivery system…. he allowed our public hospitals to
collapse.” Moreover, it was an open secret that even Mugabe himself did not use
his own country’s health system when he needed medical care, traveling instead
to Singapore for treatment. As a result of widespread public outrage sparked by
the Mugabe nomination, Tedros was forced to withdraw Mugabe’s name from
consideration.
During the deadly coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 –
which originated in Wuhan, China in the
fall of 2019 before infecting millions of people in more than 180 countries
across the globe – Tedros was very slow to take any measures to stem the spread
of the disease. On December 31, 2019, Taiwanese officials warned the
WHO that they had seen evidence that the coronavirus could be spread by means
of human-to-human transmission. But because the agency, in deference to
Beijing, did not have a normal relationship with Taiwan, the warning was
ignored. Fully two weeks later — on January 14, 2020 — the WHO tweeted that:
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no
clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” The agency did not correct that
falsehood until January 21.
On January 22-23 – by which time the coronavirus had already
spread to a number of other countries – a WHO emergency committee debated whether or not to declare
COVID-19 a “public health emergency of international concern.” But Tedros
elected not to do so, and instead took a trip to Beijing to discuss the matter
with Chinese officials. When he finally issued a “public health emergency”
declaration on January 30, Tedros took pains to point out that the “WHO doesn’t
recommend limiting trade and movement.” That announcement was accompanied by a
large dose of propaganda on China’s behalf. “The Chinese government is to be congratulated for the extraordinary
measures it has taken to contain the [coronavirus] outbreak,” said Tedros,
adding: “I left in absolutely no doubt about China’s commitment to transparency, and to
protecting the world’s people.” “We would have seen many more cases outside
China by now,” he emphasized, “and probably deaths —
if it were not for the government’s efforts, and the progress they have made to
protect their own people and the people of the world.”
In the first week of February, Tedros reiterated that it was unnecessary
for nations around the world to implement any restrictions that might
“unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade.” He also sang the
praises of China yet again: “I was so impressed with my meeting with
President Xi and his commitment to take serious measures to prevent the
spread of the virus to other countries.”
As February gave way to March, Tedros continued to laud
Beijing for what he described as its exemplary response to the virus outbreak.
As late as March 9, he fervently denied any suggestion that the
virus had become a pandemic. In fact, the WHO did not assign that term to the
outbreak until March 11. By repeatedly covering for China’s lies and
malfeasance, Tedros and the WHO caused populations across the globe to lose
precious time in initiating their battle strategies against the pandemic. By mid-April,
more than 150,000 people worldwide had died of COVID-19, and economic ruin had
descended upon every corner of the earth. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 5, 2020, that
according to a University of Southampton study, “the number of coronavirus
cases could have been reduced by 95% had China moved to contain the virus three
weeks sooner.” But instead, Tedros and the WHO had been busy heaping praise
upon Beijing for having set “a new standard for outbreak response.”
Tedros voiced displeasure with U.S. President
Donald Trump’s April 14, 2020 announcement that his administration would
withhold all U.S. funding from the WHO while conducting a 60-to-90 day
investigation of the Organization’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Said Tedros: “For now, our
focus, my focus, is on stopping this virus and saving lives. WHO is getting on
with the job…. When we’re divided, the virus exploits the cracks between
us.”
Tedros received the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Humanitarian Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of public
health in 2011.
Further Reading: “Biography of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus”
(WHO.int); “Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus” (Keywiki.org), Ministerial-leadership.org).
Additional Resources
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On 4/19/20 President Trump Tweeted this Crenshaw timeline
video discrediting Dem Party and MSM venomous vitriol against the President’s
actions.
BRILLIANT, A MUST WATCH! @RepDanCrenshaw pic.twitter.com/W6pGsJQ2ua— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2020
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Posted by Qronos16
114K subscribers - Apr 16, 2020
Why did President Trump decide to stop giving the World
Health Organization nearly half a billion US taxpayer dollars annually? Answer:
Because the WHO is lead by an installed Chinese puppet that pushed a weaponized
Chinese Coronavirus narrative that continues to be paid for with thousands of
real American lives. Far more than those that died in 9-11. A fact completely
disregarded by treasonous cancer known as mainstream media.
Meanwhile, those that would bring you this information.
These unwavering facts as they truly are. Are lead to the gallows by a
globalist offensive that spent more time and resources focused on controlling
these truths than containing a pandemic they suspiciously knew was right around
the corner.
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COVID-19 Is A Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says
"Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab"
By Tyler
Durden
04/17/2020 - 10:35
As the mainstream media and politicians begin to raise/admit the
possibilities that the source of COVID-19 was likely
a lab in Wuhan (accidentally leaked or otherwise) - something we first brought to the world's attention in
January before being mocked, censored, and chastised -
it appears more actual 'scientists' (at least those not paid by or working for a lab in Wuhan)
are willing to admit what we noted all along - this virus is man-made.
GilmoreHealth.com's Robert Miller writes
that contrary to the narrative that is being pushed by the mainstream that
the COVID 19 virus was the result of a natural mutation and
that it was transmitted to humans from bats via pangolins, Dr. Luc
Montagnier the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 disagrees and is
saying that the virus was man made.
Professor Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner
for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus that was
accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Chinese
researchers are said to have used coronaviruses in their work to develop an
AIDS vaccine. HIV DNA fragments are believed to have been found in the
SARS-CoV-2 genome.
We knew that the Chinese version of how the coronavirus
emerged was increasingly under attack, but here’s a thesis that tells a
completely different story about the Covid-19 pandemic, which is already
responsible for more than 110,000 deaths worldwide.
According to Professor Luc Montagnier, winner of the
Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for “discovering” HIV as the cause of the AIDS
epidemic together with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the SARS-CoV-2 is a
virus that was manipulated and accidentally released from a laboratory in
Wuhan, China, in the last quarter of 2019.
According to Professor Montagnier, this laboratory, known
for its work on coronaviruses, tried to use one of
these viruses as a vector for HIV in the search for an AIDS vaccine!
“With my colleague, bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, we
carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus,” explains
Luc Montagnier, interviewed by Dr Jean-François Lemoine for the daily podcast
at Pourquoi Docteur, adding that others have already explored this avenue:
Indian researchers have already
tried to publish the results of the analyses that showed that this coronavirus
genome contained sequences of another virus, … the HIV virus (AIDS virus), but
they were forced to withdraw their findings as the pressure from the mainstream
was too great.
In a challenging question Dr Jean-François Lemoine inferred
that the coronavirus under investigation may have come from a patient who is
otherwise infected with HIV.
"No," says Luc
Montagnier, "in order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome,
molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory."
According to the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, a plausible
explanation would be an accident in the Wuhan laboratory. He also added that
the purpose of this work was the search for an AIDS vaccine.
The truth will eventually come out
In any case, this thesis, defended by Professor Luc
Montagnier, has a positive turn. According to him, the altered elements of this
virus are eliminated as it spreads:
“Nature does not accept any
molecular tinkering, it will eliminate these unnatural changes and even if
nothing is done, things will get better, but unfortunately after many deaths.”
Luc Montagnier added that with the help of interfering
waves, we could eliminate these sequences and as a result stop the pandemic.
This is enough to feed some heated debates! So much so that
Professor Montagnier’s statements could also place him in the category of
“conspiracy theorists”:
“Conspirators are the opposite
camp, hiding the truth,” he replies, without wanting to accuse anyone, but hoping
that the Chinese will admit to what he believes happened in their laboratory.
To entice a confession from the Chinese he used the example
of Iran which after taking full responsibility for accidentally hitting a
Ukrainian plane was able to earn the respect of the global community. Hopefully
the Chinese will do the right thing he adds.
“In any case, the truth
always comes out, it is up to the Chinese government to take responsibility.”
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VIDEO US and China WAR May be Inevitable, Economy
Collapses, Dems And GOP Fight, War Approaches
April 21, 2020
US and China WAR May be Inevitable, As Economy Collapses And
Democrats And GOP Fight, War Approaches. The Thucydides Trap says that whenever
a rising power moves to displace the existing superpower war is inevitable.
5 years ago The Atlantic wrote that not only was war with
the US and China likely it was way more likely than anyone realized. They wrote
that something could happen that will cause a cascade affect resulting in total
war. And now many people are bullish on war. A series of military
confrontations, China’s attempts to cause us harm during the crisis, the
collapse of crude oil prices, and the economic collapse have put the world in
the most dangerous position it has been in yet. Nuclear weapons stand at the
ready and no one is willing to back down. As more people in the US, not just
Trump but now Democrats and joe Biden, move to blame China it seems that it is
only a matter of time when full scare war breaks out. Or maybe it won’t, maybe
this is just hype and media sensationalism, maybe the real war will be an
information war.
VIDEO: US and China WAR
May be Inevitable, As Economy Collapses And Democrats And GOP Fight, War
Approaches
[Posted by Tim Pool
720K subscribers - Apr 20, 2020]
China Critic Gordon Chang Says There Is ‘Zero’ Credence
To The Claim That Wuhan Lab Had Nothing To Do With Coronavirus Outbreak
David Krayden
Although the Wuhan Institute of Virology is denying it had
any involvement with creating and releasing the coronavirus, a critic of China
warned on Monday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that there is
“zero” credibility to that claim.
When asked by Fox News host Tucker Carlson “how much
credence should we attach” to the lab’s claim, author and China expert Gordon
Chang responded, “About zero.”
Chang explained that in early 2018, State Department
representatives visited the Wuhan lab “and they came away alarmed. They saw
protocols and precautions were not being adhered to, and they actually said
that there was a possibility of a SARS-like pandemic resulting from an outbreak
from that lab.”
Carlson aired a segment of
his show on March 31 that examined the possibility that the laboratory was the
cause of the coronavirus. Other reports followed that
suggested highly placed sources in the Trump administration were taking the
accusation extremely seriously.
While emphasizing the need for serious concern, Chang cited
“China Daily,” an official Chinese publication that released photos of the refrigerators
that can be found in the lab. “This was propaganda to show how
precautions were being taken. Well, you can see from the photo that the seals
on the refrigerator doors were broken, which obviously is one way the virus
could have escaped from the refrigerator and therefore from the lab as well,”
he said.
The author wondered that if the “official photos” of the
site are this “damning,” then “God knows what else there is there that we have
not seen.”
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 19: U.S. President Donald Trump takes
questions at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on April 19,
2020 in Washington, DC.
Chang continued, “But the point is, the assurances that we
heard Saturday from the director of the lab, are not to be taken at face value
at all. We’ve got to be concerned because Beijing has prevented people from
actually investigating this, and so therefore, there’s got to be concern.”
The commentator mused that “there is probably hysteria in
Beijing right now” after President Donald Trump talked about the Wuhan lab
during his Saturday coronavirus task force news
conference and wondered if releasing the COVID-19 virus was a mistake or “done
deliberately.”
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The COVID-19 Debacle Previews the Chinese Communist
Party's Imperial World Order
By Austin Bay
Apr 22, 2020 12:01 AM
Beijing's calculated deceit regarding the COVID-19
pandemic's November 2019 origin in Wuhan, China, to its ongoing 2020 A.D.
global massacre provides Planet Earth's residents with a preview of the Chinese
Communist Party imperial world order that Chinese President Xi Jinping has
promised to buy, slap together when no one with a brain is looking or impose
via raw military terror by 2049.
A proto-historical footnote: 2049 would mark the 100th
anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party mainland victory in the mid-20th
century Chinese civil war. I emphasize the CCP's mainland victory since the
Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan. To the CCP's chagrin, Taiwan remains
a physical, political, economic and, yes, moral alternative to the communists'
Tiananmen Square genocidal police state.
Has Taiwan (Republic of China) been a perfect polity? No.
Until the 1990s, the Taiwanese government had authoritarian streaks. Communist
Cold War propaganda, which employs utopian notions, hyped Taiwan's flaws.
2020 reality check: Taiwan is a democracy whose citizens
favor complete independence.
Independence from whom? We return to the last 10 days and
the pandemic. Beijing's ChiComs call Taiwan a rogue province. The ChiComs
promised Great Britain that Hong Kong would prove through 2049 that "one
China, two systems" could exist.
Total lie.
Hong Kong is a thorn in CCP-Beijing's gut. On April 18,
Beijing's Hong Kong lackeys arrested 15 renowned pro-democracy activists. The
detained included members of Hong Kong's local government as well as civil
rights lawyers. The charge: participating in unauthorized anti-government
protests in 2019.
Two to 4 million Hong Kongers participated in those
protests. (The city has a population of about 7.5 million.) Why target the 15?
Beijing decided to "decapitate" the pro-democracy
leaders, with the goal of terrorizing the rest of the city.
My guess: Beijing bets that global media focus on the
pandemic serves as a cover from the dictatorship's political strike. Following
the Hong Kong 15's arrest, the CCP's Hong Kong lackeys claimed Beijing does not
recognize legal restrictions that bar the CCP government from intruding on the
city's local political matters.
Goodbye Two Chinas, One System. We've another preview of the
CCP's disregard for treaties and contracts.
Beijing's pandemic lies are myriad.
With the goal of arming readers with information that will
help them identify individuals and entities bought off or blackmailed by the
CCP, let's start with the Wuhan lab bat test.
CCP-Beijing caws and brays that COVID-19/the Wuhan virus
wasn't created in the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, which, for the
record, the CCP built so it could appear to compete with U.S. research
facilities, and which is in the proximity of the Wuhan wet market. But check
the terms. By created they mean a man-made biological warfare weapon.
I am absolutely certain hotheads around the planet believe
the virus is a bio weapon, but there's no scientific evidence to support that claim.
However, man-made isn't the question. The pertinent
question: Did the virus escape Wuhan's Level 4 (very high-risk) research lab
via an incompetent technician who had a close encounter with a virus-ridden
bat?
This is a reasonable question for anyone to ask -- anyone
who is not getting cash from Beijing or is what Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong
called " a useful idiot."
Another legit question that has yet to be answered: Why did
CCP-Beijing lie about human-to-human transmissibility? Did the dictatorship
want the rest of the world to suffer the physical and economic loss the Hubei
province was suffering as of Jan. 20? (It may have been very bad as of Jan. 3.)
These are critical questions. Lives around the world have
been lost, and more are at risk.
Instead of addressing these legitimate and grievous
questions, China's dictatorship imprisons Hong Kong democracy advocates and
employs slimy rhetorical gimmicks that would get a used car salesman in
Amarillo, Texas, laughed out of town.
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Coronavirus: Another 9/11 Moment for the West
§ Commentators and politicians today worry that the current
situation might trigger a new cold war with China. They fail to understand
that, in a similar but much more far-reaching pattern to the jihadist conflict,
China has been fighting a cold war against the West for decades, while we have
refused to recognise what is going on.... Like 9/11, Covid-19 must now force
the West to wake up and fight back.
§ For decades, China has been working on its three-pronged
strategy: building its economy and fighting capability, including intelligence,
technology, cyber and space as well as hard military power; developing global
influence to exploit resources and secure control; thrusting back and dividing
the US and its capitalist allies.
§ China's arms exports are not motivated primarily by revenue
generation, but as a means to impose influence and control, create proxies and
challenge the US.
§ Chinese investment penetrates every corner of the UK, giving
unparalleled influence here as in so many countries. Plans to allow Chinese
investment and technology into our nuclear power programme and 5G network will
build vulnerability into our critical national infrastructure of an order not
seen in any other Western nation. Even the BBC, which receives funding from
China, has produced and promoted a propaganda video supporting Huawei, to the
alarm of some of its own journalists. All this despite MI5's repeated warnings
that Chinese intelligence continues to work against British interests at home
and abroad.
China has been fighting a
cold war against the West for decades, while we have refused to recognise what
is going on. Like 9/11, Covid-19 must now force the West to wake up and fight
back. Pictured: Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) oversees the military
parade for the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic
of China, on October 1, 2019 at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. (Photo by Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)
The coronavirus pandemic is a 9/11 moment. Al Qaida had been
at war with the West for years before the destruction of the twin towers. But
it took that barbarism to galvanise its largely supine prey into action.
Now we have Covid-19. Unlike 9/11 we have seen no evidence
so far that China deliberately unleashed this virus on the world. There is
certainly evidence, however, that it resulted from the policies of the Chinese
Communist Party and that Beijing's habitually duplicitous and criminally
irresponsible actions allowed it to spread around the globe, leading to tens of
thousands of deaths that could have been avoided.
Commentators and politicians today worry that the current situation
might trigger a new cold war with China. They fail to understand that, in a
similar but much more far-reaching pattern to the jihadist conflict, China has
been fighting a cold war against the West for decades, while we have refused to
recognise what is going on. The reality, in Beijing's book, is that the cold
war between China and the West, which began with the communist seizure of China
in 1949, never ended. Despite the Sino-Soviet split and subsequent US-China
rapprochement in the early 1970s, for the Chinese leadership the US was still
the implacable enemy.
Like 9/11, Covid-19 must now force the West to wake up and
fight back.
China today is by far the greatest threat to Western values,
freedom, economy, industry, communications and technology. It threatens our
very way of life. China's objective is to push back against the US and become
the dominant world power by 2049,
a century after the creation of the People's Republic. Dictator for life Xi
Jinping has no intention of doing this through military conflict. His war is
not fought on the battlefield but in the boardroom, the markets, the press,
universities, cyberspace and in the darkest shadows.
Those who argue China's right to compete with the West in
free markets and on a level playing field seem not to comprehend that Beijing
has no free market and no intention of playing on a level field. The world's
leading executioner,
China is an incomparably ruthless dictatorship that tortures, disappears and
imprisons its people at will and controls its massive population through a
techno-surveillance infrastructure that it's busy exporting around the world to
extend its political and economic control to us.
For decades, China has been working on its three-pronged
strategy: building its economy and fighting capability, including intelligence,
technology, cyber and space as well as hard military power; developing global
influence to exploit resources and secure control; thrusting back and dividing
the US and its capitalist allies.
China has built its economy on Western money and at Western
expense, by industrial-scale theft of intellectual property and technology,
copyright violation, illicit data mining, cyberwar, deceit, duplicity,
enslavement and uncompromising state control of industry and commerce. It
continues to expand its already immense influence through a Belt and Road
Initiative that marches across the globe; massive investment in Africa, Asia,
Europe, Australasia and north and south America; and direct aggression in the
Pacific including the South China Sea (where Beijing's artificial island
programme has created one of the greatest ecological disasters
in history).
All of this is supported by a multi-million dollar
propaganda operation, in President Xi's words:
"to tell China's story well" -- in other words: to advance the
ideology of the CCP everywhere. This includes buying support or silence from
global media outlets, threats and coercion. Just one high profile example of
this influence occurred last year when the US National Basketball Association
was forced to make a grovelling public apology after the Houston Rockets'
general manager tweeted in support of pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong.
Although military conflict is not China's preferred
strategic instrument, Beijing has not neglected fighting capabilities, spending
an estimated $230 billion
annually, second only to the US. Xi has been rebuilding his forces on an
unprecedented scale, with particular emphasis on a naval war
with America. Planned military contingency options also include moves against Taiwan
and other territories it intends to control directly. China has also now become
the second biggest arms seller
in the world, including to countries subject to UN sanctions such as North Korea and Iran.
This month, 15 armoured vehicles were delivered to Nigeria,
including VT-4 main battle tanks, already in service with the Royal Thai Army
and, like most of China's defence equipment, incorporating technology stolen from
the West. China's arms exports are not motivated primarily by revenue
generation, but as a means to impose influence and control, create proxies and
challenge the US.
Chinese investment penetrates every corner of the United
Kingdom, giving unparalleled influence here as in so many countries. Plans to
allow Chinese investment and technology into our nuclear power programme and 5G
network will build vulnerability into our critical national infrastructure of
an order not seen in any other Western nation. Even the BBC, which receives
funding from China, has produced and promoted a propaganda video supporting
Huawei, to the alarm of some of its own journalists. All this despite MI5's
repeated warnings that Chinese intelligence continues to work against British
interests at home and abroad.
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars
establishing Confucius Institutes around the world, mainly at universities.
There are over 500 globally, including 29 in the UK and over 70 in the US.
Ostensibly aimed at promoting Chinese culture, these bodies are used to
infiltrate universities and high schools to indoctrinate students in communist
ideology, as well as for espionage activities. More than 100,000 Chinese are
studying in the UK. Last year, MI5 and GCHQ warned universities their research
and computer systems are under threat from Chinese intelligence assets among
these students. The Director of the FBI , Christopher Wray, said recently
that China was aggressively exploiting US academic openness to steal
technology, using "campus proxies" and establishing "institutes
on our campuses." More broadly he concluded that "no country poses a
greater threat to the US than Communist China."
A senior CCP official unguardedly admitted the
Confucius Institutes are "an important part of China's overseas propaganda
set-up". Increasingly reliant on foreign funding, Western universities
have been pressured by Chinese officials to censor debate on politically
explosive issues such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and Tiananmen Square.
Few in the West fully recognise the threat to our own
economies, security and liberty. Many who do refuse to speak out for four
reasons. First, fear of coming into China's crosshairs, provoking economic harm
or character assassination. Second, fear of accusations of racism, a concern
readily exploited by the Chinese state whose own egregious racism is
only too obvious. Third, belief that our liberal values can change those that
oppose us. The hope that Chinese exposure to free trade, including entry into
the WTO in 2001, would have this effect has proven woefully misguided and
served only to strengthen Beijing's oppressive regime. Fourth, many political
leaders, businessmen, academics and journalists have been bought and paid for
by Beijing whether by financial incentive or blackmail.
How can the West fight back? Although still militarily and
economically inferior to the US, China is a formidable and growing economic
power, interwoven with Western economies to an unprecedented degree. We must
begin to divest from and sanction China, repatriate and use alternative sources
of manufacturing and technology, restrict capital investment there and curb
Chinese investment here, especially in our infrastructure.
We must re-invigorate and develop our own technology, much
long abandoned to the Chinese juggernaut. We must enforce the norms of international
trade and act vigorously to prevent and penalise China's orgy of industrial
theft that has gone largely unchallenged for decades. We must push back
globally against Beijing's imperialism and propaganda wherever it occurs. We
must also prepare for military conflict, with an emphasis on deterring Chinese
aggression.
America will have to lead the fightback as it did previously
in the cold war, but success will require Europe and our allies around the
world to stand with them for the long term. This is not a party political
issue, but must become a fundamental element of enduring Western grand
strategies. This is the task of decades and will be high-risk and costly. The
alternative is to remain on the hook and in hock to the Chinese communist state
and let future generations suffer the incalculable consequences of our
continued purblind inaction.
Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp
commanded British forces in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Iraq and the
Balkans. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
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Pompeo Says "Multiple Labs" In China & Not
Just Wuhan's Must Be Investigated For COVID-19 Origins
By Tyler
Durden
04/22/2020 - 13:05
In a new exclusive interview with UAE's The National on Wednesday,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US is demanding of Beijing access to
all major Chinese bio-research virology labs.
“We, collectively the world, still has not had access to the
Chinese labs,” the top US diplomat said. Crucially, The National reports
of the new statements:
“For the first time, he mentioned
multiple labs beyond Wuhan’s Institute of Virology (WIV) that would be critical
to access to determine the origin of the virus.”
Reiterating that the virus originated in China while calling
into doubt the official WHO narrative and assertion that coronavirus
originated in animals Pompeo further said:
“These labs in China, not just
the WIV, there are multiple labs that where the Chinese Communist Party is
working on various levels of pathogens,” Mr Pompeo told The National. “It
is important that there would be a global effort that those people working with
dangerous substances have the capability to prevent accidental release.”
The new statements will no doubt be taken as another
Washington provocation in Beijing's eyes, coming as speculation goes
full mainstream that the deadly virus actually originated at either the
Wuhan Institute of Virology (8 miles from the Wuhan wet market where cases
first popped up last year) or the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (a mere 300 yards from the wet market).
Pompeo said US allies like Germany and Australia have
voiced support to US administration efforts to get the bottom of it, and
said further in the interview it “would be important to the question
presented [determining the origin of the virus] and it’s important we get the
answer, not just as a historical matter, but so we can prevent such a thing
from happening again… it is time that there would be transparency and access
so that the world can respond.”
Since last week the mainstream media, including CNN,
began taking seriously outbreak origin theories centering on Wuhan's
high-level research labs. For example Gordon G. Chang is a columnist for The Daily Beast, a
publication which elsewhere mocked "conspiracy theories" centered
on an accidental or purposeful release:
It is becoming increasingly clear that the #coronavirus escaped from one of
the two bio labs in #Wuhan, probably the Wuhan
Institute of Virology. Patient Zero is almost certainly a worker there. See: https://t.co/7xyiYo0d2E.
#China @FoxNews
— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) April 15, 2020
He simultaneously slammed Chinese officials' latest
statements blaming the US for the spread of COVID-19, specifically calling
out “their disinformation campaigns that it began in Europe or brought
by US soldiers.”
From the conversation, US is not buying WHO’s statement yesterday that
virus originated from animals, not a lab.
Pressure growing (US & some EU countries) for access to *multiple labs* in China but no sign that Chinese gov will grant, or @who will push...
Pressure growing (US & some EU countries) for access to *multiple labs* in China but no sign that Chinese gov will grant, or @who will push...
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) April 22, 2020
“This is dangerous,” Pompo said, adding: “this is not
political, you have to know the nature and the pathway that the virus took in
order to save lives, and that didn’t happen, they were too slow.”
He also again went after the WHO in the new remarks, in
a now familiar administration refrain highlighting the global health
body's failures and slowness to act. This means the WHO itself is unlikely
to assist with US demands to access China's virology labs, making it a distant
prospect in practical terms.
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Older yet relevant posts:
o China's Lies Caused the Pandemic - It's Time To Make the
Country Pay; By Jared Harris; The Western Journal; 4/16/20 3:41pm
o Amid Pandemic, Facebook Stifles Information Showing China’s
Cover-Up; By Stephen Gregory; The Epoch Times; 4/16/20 Updated-
4/17/20
o Doctor Who Discovered HIV Confident COVID-19 Was Created in a
Lab; By Jared Harris; The Western Journal; 4/17/20 12:04pm
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China, W.H.O. & UN
Coverup Part Three:
I Think There is a
Bioweapon Issue Elitists Don’t Want to Know About
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Posted April 22, 2020
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Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says "Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab"
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be Inevitable, Economy Collapses, Dems And GOP Fight, War Approaches
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Previews the Chinese Communist Party's Imperial World Order
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Moment for the West
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