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China-Japan-Koreas
The Suspect French Lab in Wuhan
2020-05-06
A response to the bold position taken by the WHO yesterday. Herewith, the set-up:
[Spectator] China got the P4 it wanted from La Belle France. The world got a pandemic.

The irony is that the crisis sickening France and ruining whole swathes of its economy arguably can be traced back 16 years to France and its desire, for largely geopolitical and commercial reasons, to cozy up to China. It chose to do that by providing the blueprints, technology, and knowhow for a sophisticated new virology lab in Wuhan.
Chestnuts are in blossom, but there are no holiday tables under the trees this spring as Gay Paree struggles with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
. For the past seven weeks, its citizens have been confined to their homes, sans sidewalk cafes, sans restaurants, sans museums and everything else that makes the city a delight. The economy is on the ropes, with unemployment soaring and a drop of 6 percent in GDP in the first quarter. Among the tens of billions of euros the government of President Emmanuel Macron has spent to prop up businesses has been $8 billion to Air La Belle France — a virtual nationalization of the airline — with another $5 billion for that other national champion, Renault. Urgently needed restoration on fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral has been neglected as locked-down workers are only now beginning to return to work.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  The Chinese sucking MSM seem to have no ability to remember recent leaks from labs that caused problems.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-05-06 06:03  

#1  And to think both China and France are two of the five permanent members on the UN Security Council.

In any case, we shouldn't be to hard on the French. It's not like the US and others didn't cozy up to them, either.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-06 00:17  

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