How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
China’s Role in the Coronavirus Pandemic: Negligent or Criminal?
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“If the United States truly respects facts, it should open the biological lab at Fort Detrick, give more transparency to issues like its 200-plus overseas bio-labs, invite WHO experts to conduct origin-tracing in the United States, and respond to the concerns from the international community with real actions.”
– Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying at the January 18 daily press briefing
This was not the first time the Chinese foreign ministry suggested the COVID-19 pandemic started in America. On March 12, 2020, another ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, stated in a tweet that coronavirus patient zero was in America, making official what Chinese government sources had been suggesting for some time. His tweet also indicated the U.S. Army brought the disease to Wuhan, a city of 11 million and the capital of Hubei province.
2021/01/20 18:29 December plenary session at European Parliament in Brussels. (Reuters photo) December plenary session at European Parliament in Brussels. (Reuters photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) EU leaders and China hammered out the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) in the closing days of 2020 at a time when the Chinese Communist Party is increasingly on the defensive over its human rights violations, from the suppression of basic freedoms in Hong Kong to the mass internment of Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps and mounting evidence they are being pressed into labor. Europe has secured assurances from China that its market would be made more accessible and that it would set restrictions on forced technology transfers. However, objections to the investment deal, which was cut behind closed doors, have come from many quarters, including national governments, NGOs, and the ranks of the European Parliament itself.