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Blaming China for coronavirus is reasonable – not racist: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
April 7, 2020 | 10:43pm | Updated
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The e-mail from a man named Jeffrey Frank Cohen was short and painful to read. Responding to my column urging Americans to set aside the blame game until we achieve victory over the coronavirus, Cohen wrote this: “Can I at least blame the Chicoms for this mess? It killed my brother-in-law, a friend of 43 years of age with 5 children, and put two of my kids out of work.”
By all means, blame away. You are not alone.
Cohen’s letter offers a reminder that the pandemic sweeping the globe could have been stopped at its source. Instead, the Chinese Communist Party suppressed the truth, destroyed evidence and lied to the world.
It’s still lying, including about its own death totals. The official count in the country of 1.4 billion people is that just 3,322 died, but dissident groups and others within China say the actual fatalities are monstrously higher.
The Washington Post, citing reports of tens of thousands of urns being delivered to funeral parlors, of cremation units working 24 hours a day, and of long lines of people waiting to pick up their loved ones’ ashes, suggested that the virus killed between 42,000 and 48,000 in China.
It’s not surprising, then, that its Communist Party lies to the world. If it’s willing to lie to its own citizens about how many the virus killed, why would we ever assume it would tell us the truth?
The dying started in China, but did not stop there. Every death from the coronavirus has its roots there.
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It’s still lying, including about its own death totals. The official count in the country of 1.4 billion people is that just 3,322 died, but dissident groups and others within China say the actual fatalities are monstrously higher....
It’s not surprising, then, that its Communist Party lies to the world. If it’s willing to lie to its own citizens about how many the virus killed, why would we ever assume it would tell us the truth?
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Starting in February and expanding in March, top officials and government media began blaming US military personnel for bringing the disease to China. It is a preposterous claim, but the goal seems to have been simply to create an alternative to the truth and thereby cause doubts about responsibility.
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Sen. Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, has said repeatedly the idea cannot be ruled out, and numerous British officials reportedly share that opinion.
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Ronald Reagan’s famous formula for dealing with the Soviet Union, “trust but verify,” applies tenfold here. With China, nothing, nothing, nothing should be taken at face value.
It corrupts everything it touches, including the World Health Organization, which helped delay the truth about the outbreak. A January 14 tweet by the UN organization said Chinese “officials found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission,” which we now know was false. Yet two weeks later, the head of WHO visited China and praised President Xi Jinping for his swift reaction.
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Yet even as he has delivered on improved agreements, it becomes more and more clear that the scope of the China problem remains enormous. Its aggressive military expansion, territorial ambitions and its campaign of bribery and influence around the world reveal its ultimate aim of global dominance.
China has grown so bold that its leaders talk openly of having the yuan replace the American dollar as the international system’s reserve currency. Even more troubling in the short term, a publication controlled by the Communist Party threatened to impose pharmaceutical export controls it said would plunge America “into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
It’s not a fanciful threat. Many of the generic drugs on our store shelves are manufactured in China, and many ingredients are sourced there.
This is a potential nightmare, an element of which is playing out around the world and before our eyes. The coronavirus hell should be the last wake-up call America needs about China. Ever.
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THANK YOU MICHAEL GOODWIN
THANK YOU NEW YORK POST
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