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2020-03-21 Home Front: Politix

'It is true': Chinese ambassador backs Hillary Clinton tweet criticizing Trump's 'racist rhetoric'

[Washington Examiner] Days after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ripped President Trump for what she called "racist rhetoric" toward China, a top ambassador from the country is agreeing with her sentiment.

Chinese Ambassador to South Africa Lin Songtian backed the former Democratic presidential candidate in a two-line tweet responding to Clinton's tirade against Trump for his continued use of the terms "Chinese virus" and "Wuhan virus." Clinton claimed Trump was "turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on."

"It is true," wrote Lin on Saturday morning. "Justice always speak loudly."

Trump's insistence on noting the origin of the coronavirus has led to criticism from media outlets who only one month ago used similar language to describe the flu-like illness. The disease is believed to have first appeared in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, but the language the president has used to describe the geographical home of the virus has created a bitterly partisan political debate.

The war of words comes at a time when officials in the United States and China have amplified conspiracies and doubt about the timeline of the virus and where it came from. On March 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao suggested that "it might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan."

But top officials in the Trump administration have pushed back on the claim that the U.S. played any role in spreading the disease in China.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-21 11:28|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 They are wired to mislead and lie. It is in their Chicom DNA, same with Kankles.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-21 12:15|| 2020-03-21 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Watch Australian News Media Do What American Media Will Not – BLAME CHINA For The Spread The Coronavirus

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-21 12:21|| 2020-03-21 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Surreal. Now the New York Times is saying - I swear this isn't the Bee - that Trump has ceded leadership on the coronavirus to ... get this ... CHINA.

And the above article from NYT's Germany-based correspondent reprints the scurrilous lie about the bogus "monopoly" request to German company Cure-Vac. After the company itself denied it, and GERMAN media figures denounced Die Welt for printing such a lie.

Despicable slander. Unconscionable. Actionable at law.

Posted by Lex 2020-03-21 12:34|| 2020-03-21 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 The NYT needs to study the President Lincoln precedent as used to deal with matters of this.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-21 14:12|| 2020-03-21 14:12|| Front Page Top

#5 See #4: And, if true, we may be headed there: DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

"The request raised eyebrows because of its potential implications for habeas corpus –– the constitutional right to appear before a judge after arrest and seek release."

Precedent established.

SPLC mood meter:

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-21 16:38|| 2020-03-21 16:38|| Front Page Top

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