Thanking our panelists. The democratic and republican colleagues for your participation in this forum. Over 80,000 citizens have lost their lives due to covid19. More than in any other question, country unearth. Many families have lost loved ones including my own. Mrs. Waters has also lost a member of her family due to the pandemic. This committee was not established to possibly or cast failures, or to search for the viruses origin. A relative, pursuit future success. We have been tasked with the urgent an important work of ensuring that our countrys response to this crisis is effective, efficient, and equitable. I agree that one of the most important components of our response is answering the question that is being discussed at every Kitchen Table in america right now. How will we know when we are ready to safely reopen our country . To answer that question, we should be informed by history, and guided by science. Well we all want to reopen as soon as possible, doing so before the pr
China this is a situation which is inconsistent with all of the modeling is inconsistent with the reporting that were getting from inside the car and i dont really and certainly it is not consistent with the way this virus has acted around the world so i think that we can say with confidence that china is not telling us the truth about the crime of virus infections why why would they not one of a high and low why would they not tell us the truth. You know thats a great question larry and i think it has to do with beijing trying to give the impression that china has recovered and because of that they may want businesses to return to china they Want Congress inside the country to go back to normal levels theyre just trying get back to where it was before the virus hit and that is the only explanation i can come up with you know the other thing of course is that they want to show that their system is subpoena or to our us a so they want to be able to demonstrate that they were able to lif
A high and wont why would they not tell us the truth. If thats a great question larry and i think it has to do with beijing trying to give the impression that china has recovered and because of that they want businesses to return to china they Want Congress inside the country to go back to normal levels theyre just trying to get back to where it was before the virus hit and that is the only explanation i can come up with you know the other thing of course is that they want to show that their system is subpoena or to our s. A so they want to be able to demonstrate that they were able to lift the virus. But it is really to figure out why because you know as this progresses were starting to learn a lot more about whats going on and the inconsistency is dont do china any good. To how gordon chang would you describe the United States chinese relations at this minute. I think theyre tense theres a my sense is that there is anger at the top of the American Government for what beijing has done
Expert and contributor for the daily beast he is in new jersey garden in your opinion has this china under reported this cases of the coronavirus. Yeah clearly larry china has under reported coronavirus cases and deaths and it continues to do so so for instance this week were getting numbers 36 or 7 new infections a day but theyre not reporting any Community Transmissions theyre saying that any transmissions are from imported cases and other words chinese nationals returning to china this is a situation which is inconsistent with all of them modeling is inconsistent with the reporting that were getting from inside the and i dont really and certainly it is not consistent with the way this virus has acted around the world so i think that we can say with confidence that china is not telling us the truth about the crime of virus infections why why would they not one of a high and low why would they not tell us the truth you know thats a great question larry and i think it has to do with be
Suffered from the disease thats a good inclusion in the United States Intelligence Community and a bombshell report we learned about widens day so where does that leave u. S. Officials in their fight against the pen demick for analysis we turn 1st to gordon chang asia expert and contributor for the daily beast he is in new jersey garden in your opinion has this china under reported this cases of the coronavirus. Yeah clearly larry china has under reported coronavirus cases and deaths and it continues to do so so for instance this week were getting numbers 36 or 7 new infections a day but theyre not reporting any Community Transmissions theyre saying that any transmissions are from imported cases and other words chinese nationals returning to china this is a situation which is inconsistent with all of them modeling is inconsistent with the reporting that were getting from inside the and i dont really and certainly it is not consistent with the way this virus has acted around the world s