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2020-03-26 China-Japan-Koreas
China, Article III: Every corona patient is a victim of China
[Arutz 7] - I talked with Steven W. Mosher, an American expert on China and head of the Population Research Institute about this, the single most important political and cultural issue in the present global crisis.

Meotti: What doesn’t the West get about the Chinese regime?

Mosher: Even after the end of the current pandemic--which will, sooner than we think, end--China will not be looked upon the same way again. Its relationship with the West in general, and the U.S. in particular, will be fundamentally different. It will no longer be seen as merely an economic competitor, or even a strategic rival.

It will be seen as a hostile force to be confronted at every turn.

China will not give up its hegemonic aspirations and return to its previous status as a non-expansionist regional power. But it will no longer be aided in its quest for global domination by any country other than its handful of dictatorial allies whose dictators have, in one way or another, been paid off. China's Belt and Road Initiative will come to be seen not as the high road to riches, but as deceitful debt-trap diplomacy, not to mention a one-way ticket to Coronavirus hell.

Meotti: Why is this epidemic, as you said, "made in China"?

Mosher: With every day that goes by we learn more about the evil and incompetent regime that unleashed this horror upon the world. Whether or not the Wuhan virus leaked from one of its biolabs or not, Beijing deliberately concealed the outbreak for as long as two months. Although it was finally forced by the rising death toll to admit it had a problem, it has continued to dissemble about virtually everything else in the two months since.

Why wasn't the world warned in time? Estimates are that 95% of the infections in China, and almost 100% around the world, could have been stopped with timely medical intervention.

I am a frequent visitor to Italy, and have over the years traveled to all parts of the country, from Turin and Venice in the north, to Bari in the south. It pains me to learn that in northern Italy hundreds of elderly Italians are being denied ICU beds and ventilators, and are dying. They are dying because of the incompetence and evil of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Italy signed on to the same Belt and Road project, the only G-7 country to do so, on the promise that it would lead to prosperity. At the present time, however, China's New Silk Road seems to be a fast track to death.

The problem is not that there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens living in Italy, not counting illegal immigrants. The problem is that their government allowed the Chinese Coronavirus to reach epidemic proportions in China, and then allowed it to be spread around the world. The CCP could probably have not done a better job of "seeding" a global pandemic if it had been trying to.

...Let’s be crystal clear about one thing: Everyone who falls ill from the Chinese coronavirus, everyone who dies from the Chinese coronavirus, everyone who is denied medical care because the hospitals are treating Chinese coronavirus patients, everyone who loses a job, or loses weeks out of their lives because of a quarantine‐each and every one of those individuals is a victim of the Chinese Communist Party.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-26 03:54|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 America and the world will now move beyond the "China Dream," even if the Communist Party leaders there continue to cling to it.

The world will reassess its dependence on China for, among other things, prescription drugs and medical devices.

The Belt and Road Initiative will grind to a halt as China desperately tries to avoid a financial collapse.

The U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made goods will go back up when China defaults--as now it must--on Phase I of the trade deal it signed with President Trump.

Chinese investment in places like northern Italy, where PRC controls much of the textile industry will be reassessed.

The world will pull back from China.

As the world order reconstitutes itself after the current pandemic subsides, it will take a different shape. China will no longer be regarded as a responsible member of that order, because it has proven that it is not. Instead it will be on the outside, looking in.


Now that's optimism.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-26 13:30||   2020-03-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

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