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| With Myriad Links to Chinese Regime, New York Is Now America's CCP Virus Epicenter |
| 2020-04-05 |
| BLUF: [Epoch Times] While South Korea had one of the worst early outbreaks outside China, the combination of public awareness, popular pressure, and civic cooperation seems to have brought the virus under control. Yet the same vigilance appears sorely lacking in the Empire State, even as the CCP promotes its supposed success in controlling the disease in China, and painting the U.S. response as the epitome of administrative incompetence. The narrative is reinforced by many foreign media outlets, in large part because they tend to report the PRC’s official numbers of confirmed cases and deaths at face value. On March 11, the New York Times published an article titled "Its Coronavirus Cases Dwindling, China Turns Focus Outward." The article’s subhead echoes the CCP’s propaganda: "Beijing is mounting a humanitarian aid blitz in countries struggling with their own outbreaks. In doing so, it’s stepping into a role the West once dominated." A March 16 editorial by the Washington Examiner criticized the Times report as perhaps "the most shameful piece of Chinese disinformation published by any newsroom in the United States since the COVID-19 outbreak first became a story." "The article parrots China’s claim that its daily coronavirus cases have dwindled ’into the single digits,’" the Examiner notes. "No attempt is made to verify these numbers. ... With the media acting like this, who even needs the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China?" |
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