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It's funny that the shitty American response is the result of China when every other country was in the same boat.
International WHO Team Blocked From Entering China to Study Origins of the Coronavirus
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It's funny that the shitty American response is the result of China when every other country was in the same boat.
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This is a ridiculous argument.
Does the left need to address every single injustice around the world in order to be not considered hypocrites?
The left in America focus on issues in AMERICA. Why would the racism against African immigrants in China be big news in America? Who has ever praised the Chinese on human rights?
If there was an issue of Chinese AMERICANS being racist against African AMERICANS and the left wasnt calling that out because they only focused on white on black racism, then you would have a story.
But it is a ridiculous expectation that AOC or Colbert, or TYT, or whoever, needs to be on top of all the discrimination going on around the world, as if there isnt enough problems that need addressing at home.
What even is this argument? Do you think that if a reporter asked a liberal about China's discrimination of Africans that they would reply with "Fake news. China is a great ally and friend"? Who is really thinking about or even knows anything about the living conditions of Africans in China?
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Im all for an investigation, but how far do we take this?
This seems like there should be some UN level pact amongst all countries, and we need to start realizing and addressing how close and interconnected our countries actually are.
Would the US allow foreign nations to come in and investigate had a pandemic started here? Would Russia? I have a hard time imagining any of the big powers doing so...but when it comes to things like a virus, there shouldnt be any borders because the virus isnt going to respect country sovereignty.
I dont know how you actually put this into practice though. But at the very least WHO needs to make some major changes for it to stay relevant
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You do realize Chinese encroachment on US industries such as hollywood (entertainment), sports (nba), and gaming are all being censored to tailor Chinese interests. Leftest have just become retarded in their hate for Trump. Yeah I get it orange man bad, but China is much much worse. "Real" liberals say fuck China.
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What does that have to do with liberals ? What does this have to do with Trump?
And what do you mean by encroachment? America and the rest of the world need to stop acting like victims when it comes to China, and take responsibility for our part in this. The Chinese didn't encroach on entertainment, sports, or gaming, it is American companies that were willing to bend over backwards and do what China wanted. The Chinese didn't put a gun to Disney or Paramount's head and force them to do anything. American companies wanted to make money in the Chinese market, so they censored themselves and did a bunch of goofy shit to appeal to a Chinese audience. That was a choice.
A "real" American would have told commie China to fuck off if they didn't like the messages and themes in American entertainment.
China has the power that they have now because the world gave it to them, while knowing full well that they were shitty actors from the start.
"Fuck China" doesn't solve anything. And it ignores that we were part of how we got to where we are now.
While I am completely on board for a change, it isn't just China that is at fault here, nor are they the only ones that need to change.
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What does this have to do with leftists? Anytime I hear someone say this I know that they know get their news from someone like Steven Crowder who is partisan as fuck.
The reality is that nearly everyone has sold us out to China both republicans and democrats. China isn't responsible for doing that to Hollywood, you can blame the greed of politicians and companies. Do you shout at the Indian guy working from a call center in New Delhi? Yes I realize that is not China but it still applies ere. That guy in India is just trying to make a living. Get mad at the people on the top who did this to you.
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China launches new Twitter accounts, 90,000 tweets in COVID-19 info war
China has pushed out 90,000 tweets since the start of April from 200 diplomatic and state media accounts in a COVID-19 information war offensive.
China has pushed out 90,000 tweets since the start of April from 200 diplomatic and state media accounts in a COVID-19 information war offensive.
China has launched a Twitter offensive in the COVID-19 information war, more than doubling its number of official government tweets since January and in recent days using the platform to spread a conspiracy theory that the virus came from a U.S. government lab.
"The #US keeps calling for transparency & investigation. Why not open up Fort Detrick & other bio-labs for international review? Why not invite #WHO & int'l experts to the US to look into #COVI19 source & response?" the spokesperson for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry wrote in a May 8 tweet that has been liked more than 4,000 times.
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, is where the military houses and researches infectious diseases.
The Chinese have pushed out 90,000 tweets since the start of April from 200 diplomatic and state-run media accounts as part of an offensive in the COVID-19 information war, according to data collected by the Hamilton 2.0 dashboard of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a tool that aggregates accounts connected to the Chinese government.
Bret Schafer, the digital disinformation fellow at the alliance, based in Washington, D.C., has been tracking China's increasing social media output for months.
According to Schafer's analysis, Twitter output from China's official sites has almost doubled since January, and the number of diplomatic Twitter accounts has tripled, to 135, up from just 40 accounts this time last year. Many tweets are in English or Mandarin, but the diplomatic accounts are often in the language of an embassy's host country.
The Chinese accounts "have become more aggressive, more conspiratorial, and the ones who have done that are their most popular accounts and have by far the most engagement," Schafer said.
The Twitter account for the Chinese Embassy in France "has significantly more followers than the embassy in Poland, for example, because the embassy in France has been a driver of the most aggressive content," he said.
The Fort Detrick conspiracy theory has been tweeted about more than 30 times from official Chinese diplomatic and state-run media accounts in the past two months, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
One of the first Chinese officials to tweet about the Fort Detrick conspiracy theory was Zhao Lijian, the spokesman and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Department, who has a history as one of China's most prolific officials on Twitter. On March 12, he tweeted, "It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan."
The next day, he tweeted, "Further evidence that the virus originated in the US," linking to a post on Global Research, a Canadian blog with pro-Kremlin leanings. The blog post argued that the virus could have originated in the U.S. and possibly leaked from Fort Detrick.
Chinese embassy accounts in France and Jordan retweeted Zhao, and in the past two weeks activity on Twitter around the conspiracy theory has accelerated.
On May 8, Hua Chunying, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, tweeted the demand to investigate Fort Detrick. The tweet was picked up by at least nine other Chinese diplomatic accounts in the two days afterward, according to Schafer, including Zhao's and the Foreign Affair Ministry's official Twitter account. China's ambassador to Venezuela also tweeted out a Spanish translation.
Zhao's March 13 tweet has been retweeted 12,600 times and liked 20,000 times.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...tter-accounts-90-000-tweets-covid-19-n1207991
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Twitter fact-checks China official's post claiming coronavirus originated in US
By Sareena Dayaram | May 28, 2020
By Sareena Dayaram | May 28, 2020
Twitter on Thursday slapped a fact-checking label on a pair of tweets by a Chinese government official claiming that the US Army brought the novel coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The social networking company added a blue link that says, "Get the facts about COVID-19" to a post on Twitter by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao that was published on March 12.
"When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan," Zhao wrote on Twitter. "US owe us an explanation!"
Clicking on the blue fact-checking label directs readers to a page on Twitter with the headline: "WHO says evidence suggests COVID-19 originated in animals and was not produced in a lab."
In another tweet that was also fact-checked by Twitter, Zhao encouraged his followers to read and repost an article he had linked to claiming the coronavirus originated in the US.
"The tweets in question contain potentially misleading content about COVID-19 and have been labeled to provide additional context to the public," a Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement when asked why the fact-check labels were added to Zhao's tweets this week despite being published in March. "These actions are in line with the approach we shared earlier this month"
https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/new...s-post-claiming-coronavirus-originated-in-us/
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WHO team blocked from entering China to study origins of coronavirus
By Helen Regan, CNN | January 6, 2021
By Helen Regan, CNN | January 6, 2021
The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said two scientists on the United Nations team had already left their home countries for Wuhan when they were told that Chinese officials had not approved the necessary permissions to enter the country.
The arrangements had been jointly agreed with China in advance.
"I am very disappointed with this news," Tedros told a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday. "I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials and I have once again made clear that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team."
Tedros said WHO was "eager to get the mission underway as soon as possible" and that he had been given assurances that Beijing was speeding up the internal procedure for "the earliest possible deployment."
Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's health emergencies program said there was an issue with visas and one team member had already returned home. The other was waiting in transit in a third country.
WHO officials have long been negotiating with Beijing to allow a team of global scientists access to key sites to investigate the origin of the virus -- first detected in Wuhan in December 2019 -- and its likely jump from an unidentified host species to humans.
In May, WHO agreed to hold an inquiry into the global response to the pandemic after more than 100 countries signed a resolution calling for an independent probe.
Ryan said the team hoped it was "just a logistical and bureaucratic issue" that can be resolved in "good faith in the coming hours and recommence the deployment of the team as soon as possible."
In a press briefing Wednesday, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying, said China had "always held an open, transparent and responsible attitude" on tracing the origin of the virus.
Hua said that China had previously welcomed WHO experts into the country and said that the UN investigation team and Chinese experts have "maintained frequent interactions" including four video meetings between October and December.
"In order to ensure that the international expert group that comes to China can work smoothly, it is needed to fulfill the necessary procedures and make relevant specific arrangements. The two sides are still negotiating about this," said Hua.
The United States and Australia have led the charge in criticizing China's handling of the initial stages of the pandemic, accusing Beijing of downplaying its severity and preventing an effective response until too late.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed China for the global pandemic and announced that the US would terminate its relationship with WHO, saying that China had not properly reported information it had about the coronavirus and had pressured WHO to "mislead the world."
The US has demanded transparency in WHO operations in China. In November, Garrett Grigsby with the US Department of Health and Human Services told WHO's assembly that the terms of the investigation to China were "not negotiated in a transparent way" and "the investigation itself appears to be inconsistent" with its mandate.
A trove of confidential documents obtained by CNN last year from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Hubei province -- where the virus was first detected in 2019 -- showed how Chinese officials gave the world more optimistic data than they had access to internally, by initially underreporting case numbers during the early stages of the outbreak.
As countries around the world struggle with new infection surges and outbreaks, China appears to be rebounding. Last month, the country posted positive economic growth for the second quarter in a row.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi praised China's anti-pandemic efforts at home and abroad, saying that the country "launched an emergency global humanitarian campaign" and "helped build consensus on a global response to Covid-19."
As the WHO team prepared to embark, Chinese officials and state media have questioned the virus' origins, saying "more and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world," according to Wang.
On Monday, reports circulated on Chinese social media that the virus had been detected on auto part packaging in multiple cities, including from foreign brands.
For months, China has been testing and disinfecting frozen products imported from overseas, over fears the virus could reenter the country that way, even as experts remain skeptical about this as a potential source of infection.
WHO says it is "highly unlikely that people can contract Covid-19 from food or food packaging," and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the risk is "thought to be very low." Both insist there is no evidence of such transmission, and countries have even threatened to bring a case against China at the World Trade Organization over import restrictions.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/china/china-blocks-who-team-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
