But what if the US military got into a Chinese research facility and deployed the virus there? Makes ya thiiinkk 🤔🤔
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Chinese official spreads conspiracy theory "US Army" brought coronavirus to Wuhan
- Thread starter Poetic Injustice
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Just read one about it being a US bio weapon to get Trump re-elected.
Chinese officials have also started calling it the "Italian virus" and "Japanese virus": https://bitterwinter.org/de-sinicizing-the-virus-how-ccp-propaganda-is-rewriting-history/
Quick reminder that China isn't anybody's friend, especially not of democracy or truth.
Quick reminder that China isn't anybody's friend, especially not of democracy or truth.
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US summons Chinese ambassador over coronavirus conspiracy theory
US Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell summoned China's ambassador in Washington to the State Department Friday morning, hours after a prominent Chinese official suggested that the US military may have been responsible for bringing the coronavirus to Wuhan, the epicenter of the global...
Presumably they understand how the spread of information works in most of the world and this narrative is just to keep their suppressed subjects under control.
You're right, I don't believe the Chinese governments explanation. Many do apparently.
Last October, Wu Han held a military-theme sports event "7th CISM Military World Games". American participated. This is the base of this stupid conspiracy theory
All this
China is unwise to play this game. After this is over anti-Chinese sentiment will be high all over the world. They should be trying their best to help the rest of the world and show they mean business by shutting down exotic animal trade hard. This could easily turn into a world vs China conflict situation.
I live in an area where 90% of the population falls for shit like this.
It makes my head heart.
Agreed. A lot of businesses are going to be re-evaluating their relationship as well from the business journals I read.
That's still really bad tho.
Blame the rest of the world
Get the public on your side
Reopen wet markets
Time passes
A new deadly outbreak occurs
Repeat
The problem is that the West might become more reluctant to give China passes. Which will hurt the Chinese economy if they don't take necessary measures. China NEEDS foreign investment.
The SARS outbreak was nothing compared to this.
Holy shit. I had no idea this was going. Absolutely stomach-turning. I'm fucking livid right now.
We have no evidence of that being true but it wouldn't surprise me if that did happen. Especially considering what typically happens to whistleblowers in China. Hell, there is a guy who went to Wuhan and was conducting interviews and posting them on social media, he's been missing for a month (This American Life did a story on him).
This post seems at odds with your last one but hopefully you are now being more sensible regarding this situation.
More people need to watch this and get our leadership/WHO/fucking anybody to do something to pressure China on this.
How about instead shutting down grey wildlife markets so more viruses from exotic animals don't spread to humans in the future. But nope have to blame the rest of the world for a global crisis the Chinese government is accountable for.
Given the human and economic impact of the virus I can't see the world letting China off the hook for this so easily.
Given the human and economic impact of the virus I can't see the world letting China off the hook for this so easily.
No China its because of all the disgusting shit you eat and your disease ridden filthy wet markets That's where the virus came from.
They need something to ensure they're own people they didn't fuck them over so hard.
They aren't known as the propaganda machine for nothing.
They aren't known as the propaganda machine for nothing.
No, the whistleblower, Dr.Li, died of coronavirus. That's the truth. Those who fabricate this kind of conspiracy theory really don't know how Chinese government's proganda machine works. The whistleblower was already famous prior to his death. The Chinese government almost never kill those who had positive reputations.They know that, the best way to control the narrative, is to keep him at the party's side. They tried their best to save Dr.Li while he was in critical condition but failed.
China's wet markets are absolutely fucking disgusting. The world seriously needs to grow a spine and finally sanction this garbage behavior from the CCP. Literally commiting genocide with the Uighers and all these infectious diseases coming from there because of unbelievably unhygienic practices.
In six months time when nearly every person on the planet will have a personal story to tell about covid-19 China is going to find itself in a really bad spot trying to reclaim customers.
A lot of people are treating China as one big entity, I guess it's easier for this audience. But the truth is, the government at a country level is desperate to contain the virus like anybody else.
Just to give you a straight-up comparison between the beginning of the Coronavirus and Chernobyl's aftermath: each layer of bureaucracy was trying to diminish its importance to their higher-ups, leading to the top officials' inaction. After the whole thing turning into a proper modern plague, those local officials were sanctioned (or just plain murdered, we don't really know, but their career is absolutely over).
You have to understand the concept of "Face". To a Chinese government official, not doing your job properly is losing face big time. That's just not acceptable, and they're wiggling around to pretend everything's fine.
Now 99% of young people don't really care about "face", "facts", or "truth". If there's no elections, there's no need to sway the public opinion on anything. They want safety and prosperity, no matter how. There will be no revolution, there will be nobody standing against the CCP.
So those government officials saying weird shit on Twitter (which is banned here in China, so I don't even know how he gets there as VPNs are illegal) are really not going to affect most people's opinion on the matter. It's mostly conversation fodder for old people blabbering about during their afternoon tea with their neighbors.
Just to give you a straight-up comparison between the beginning of the Coronavirus and Chernobyl's aftermath: each layer of bureaucracy was trying to diminish its importance to their higher-ups, leading to the top officials' inaction. After the whole thing turning into a proper modern plague, those local officials were sanctioned (or just plain murdered, we don't really know, but their career is absolutely over).
You have to understand the concept of "Face". To a Chinese government official, not doing your job properly is losing face big time. That's just not acceptable, and they're wiggling around to pretend everything's fine.
Now 99% of young people don't really care about "face", "facts", or "truth". If there's no elections, there's no need to sway the public opinion on anything. They want safety and prosperity, no matter how. There will be no revolution, there will be nobody standing against the CCP.
So those government officials saying weird shit on Twitter (which is banned here in China, so I don't even know how he gets there as VPNs are illegal) are really not going to affect most people's opinion on the matter. It's mostly conversation fodder for old people blabbering about during their afternoon tea with their neighbors.
There's also a significant diaspora of folks within the last 50 years that rumormongers still try to get their hooks into. Despite the education of those folks, there is still some deep-seated credulousness for some individuals that community, and various groups throw a lot of shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Getting soldiers off work by 5 pm may as well be trying to perform open heart surgery with a flaccid penis but an elaborate scheme to start an epidemic across the world would totally be successful.
Not seeing it, sorry CCP.
Not seeing it, sorry CCP.
This is the part I'm suspect of. I believe he died of the virus, but I'm not convinced they did everything they could to save him. We will never know either way but considering the way the government is treating other whistleblowers during just this pandemic, I see no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The guy making videos in Wuhan had a positive reputation too, that didn't save him.
I agree. It seems to me that it's also likely counter productive to China's interests. They seemed to be on a smart path years ago as their economy was growing steadily they weren't pissing off their neighbors. As they've become more aggressive in the South China Sea they've annoyed a lot of countries. It seems to me that they've thrown away a slow/steady/reasonable path toward being the preeminent superpower and it'll bite them in the ass and slow their ascent. This type of conspiracy theory peddling.
It was nanotechnology piloting those tanks, as if they were all possessed!
Or Magneto.
Annual fuck the CCP for being totalitarian garbage. I look forward to seeing the usual suspects attempt to spin this in defense of the CCP, just like anytime the Uyighurs are brought up.
As others have said this is for a domestic audience and further - our own orange bag of shit started his Oval Office speech by calling it a Chinese virus, then a foreign virus and then blamed it on Europe for not reacting as brilliantly as Trump.
the UK is blaming it on Euro banana regulations and basically trying to cure it by hosting a brexit pox party.
china is behaving atrociously as expected - both with the initial suppression- then a period of very serious effort we'd do well to understand and now back to slurpingXi Jinping. But they're in good company...
