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COVID-19: As questions mount, China’s role in virus spread under scanner

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China faces its biggest crisis both at home and abroad with the outbreak of this Coronavirus, which began in Wuhan. The scale of the crisis is bigger than the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

There are a few facts which point towards China’s acts of negligence and omissions.

The epicentre of the virus, Wuhan has all of a sudden stopped testing its residents and hence the number of positive cases has steadily reduced and it is business as usual, even as 3 billion people around the world are in a state of lockdown. The US and Italy now have a greater number of reported positive cases that China.

What is surprising is that no one has the numbers for other parts of China.

Additionally, there have been several disappearances of doctors from Wuhan who attempted to warn their colleagues and the world about these dangers. China did not lockdown Wuhan in January which resulted in 5 million passengers travelling in and out of Wuhan, according to the Mayor. This cover up has caused incalculable sufferings to the Chinese people and the world over leading to hashtags on twitter such as #Chinaliedpeopledied.

Also Read: Wuhan Virus Fallout: Cracks in China’s Great wall?

Internationally, China has spent more than USD 6 billion as per various reports for lobbying and public relations in Europe, US and various other countries. Despite large investments, their attempts propaganda campaign has proved to be clumsy. The two narratives that the virus originated in the US military facilities and another that it originated in Northern Italy have been completely debunked with the source being firmly identified as Wuhan. This was also stated by the Spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Lijian Zhao who was identified as the super carrier of this fake news.

Between December and January, the entire Chinese government was hard at work spreading misinformation to its own citizens and the world about the true deadly dangers of this virus. It hid the fact that human to human transmission is possible and the virus stays alive on surfaces. This appears to be have done with the active collusion with the WHO which mirrored China’s false propaganda despite having solid evidence from Taiwan to the contrary. This prompted a member of the Diet (Japanese parliament) to remark that WHO should change its name to CHO (China Health Organization).

What does China gain?

Firstly, opportunity to buy stocks around the world at low prices.

Secondly, Pharma and Pharmaceuticals products such as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), masks, ventilators etc, China is the largest producer and dominates the market, it is receiving orders from all over the world. For example: Spain received half billion Euro worth defective material from China.

While China hoped to leverage this demand financially and politically, positioning itself as a saviour of the world, this too has failed as several equipments are defective and being returned.

Thirdly, political destabilization of the US ahead of the Presidential elections. It is no secret that President Trump has taken the toughest line on China and the latter would have like to see his popularity reduce.

As reported previously, President Xi faces the most severe challenge to his leadership yet, apart from handling the COVID-19 crisis, questions have been raised about this authoritarian leadership style and COVID-19 cover up. In addition to the personal challenges to the President, there have been reports of wide spread rioting in Hubei province after lifting of a two-month lockdown.

The average Chinese citizen has as much access to global information as someone living in the 18th century would have. This is due to the fact, the Communist party controls what the Chinese citizens can access on the web, have set up their social media platforms which are heavily censored. Hence, the Chinese government is confident it can convince its citizens of its false propaganda.

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