2021/04/10 11:35 Henry Kissinger (left), Chairman Mao in Beijing. Henry Kissinger (left), Chairman Mao in Beijing. (Wikimedia Commons photo)
This is the second part of a two-part commentary. The first part can be found here. Generally speaking, when we talk about People s Republic of China (PRC) political warfare or variations on that terminology like sharp power we mean the measures China undertakes to shape the policies, positions, or public opinion of other countries. We also need, however, our definition to take into account the efforts of our own citizens who, intentionally or not, effectively help to achieve PRC goals. We need, for example, to consider the words and actions of some of the Americans who have significantly shaped U.S.- PRC relations since 1971.
Coercion or altruism: is China using its Covid vaccines to wield global power?
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Surely the preliminary report of the WHO investigators is good news – certainly puts the hypothesis that Covid-19 leaked from a research lab in the bin. Isn t that a relief? After all, why on earth would anyone hope that hypothesis was true?
Peter Daszak, a British-American member of the WHO team in Wuhan, previously told USA TODAY that in peoples imaginations there might be this image of one person in a lab in China who drops a petri dish and that somehow leads to a massive outbreak. It s just not like that. Every year there are millions of people going in bat caves and hunting and eating wildlife. It happens every day.