Coronavirus: China's Disappeared Heroes and the Silence of the West

Very illuminating story. How could we, in the free West, not even raise our voices against this evil regime and their treatment of truth-tellers?

Xi is the CCP's version of Stalin, no doubt. He is more ruthless than Mao simply because he is more devious in his activities to silence and control. He fears the open press reports greatly. I think his hold on the Party may be tenuous at best because of this virus outbreak. China has lost face with the world and are trying to deflect blame on to anyone but their Party.

Bless these freedom loving people. And you, Mr. Meotti. Unfortunately, we are all surrendering to China and Islam. I fear for the future of my grandchildren and their peers.

Try opening the Drew Pavlou link and you may decide that Jeff Bezos is also playing Beijing's game of repressing dissent.

As far as the West is concerned, its material well-being has always been considered more important than the welfare of those brave dissidents in China! As far as the University of Queensland is concerned, I always thought that such places were about the expression of free thought in order to advance the knowledge and understanding of mankind! How delusional I have been all these years! I suspect that the real reason is that the university makes a lot of money from the number of Chinese students coming there to study each year. Pathetic!

How is our take on Chinese dissidents any different from supporting the Iranian dissidents? Or to stretch the point abandoning Afghanistan?

The same style. Like father, like son, like Soviet communists, like Chinese's. Concentration camps, murder of dissidents, complete subjugation of rights and freedoms, all these sound very familiar. However, CPC has learned good lessons from their Soviet counterparts, hence they'll probably last longer. Besides, the same scourge, venomous snake is taking over the West, so only God knows how this world is going to look like. Perhaps the war between China and Islam which is now taking over the West? Who knows. Indeed scary.

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea. and in the face of adversity nothing more precious. Freedom of speech is too lofty an idea for the CCP to adopt. Is there anything to be learnt from Atheism? Yes of course Denial and it's cohort anonymity. As long as there's a conflict of interest, the more interesting the game. I just hope this doesn't effect my social credits it's the uncertainty of it all that's so debilitating. Can China change? Yes but like the rest of us in this time of uncertainty there must be comprise and a willingness to engage on both sides it's not gonna be a one way street, that would just lead to even more conflict further down the track. What we really need at this crucial and most pivotal time in history is genuine leadership and open ,honest and transparent dialogue. Threats and intimidation the usual stock standard rhetorical methodology of yesterday just won't cut it anymore. People want answers , people want solutions the idea that people are too ignorant to know what they want or need especially in the younger highly educated generation is insulting. The whole world is watching there is no place to hide in a digital world everything gets out eventually whether you like it or not.

True unearthings, true facts.

Apart from Donald Trump, western leaders have shown that their trading relationships with China are far more important than the rights of the persecuted in China and the rights of their own populations to be protected from aggressive Chinese expansionism. Apart from The Gatestone Institute no one else seems to be paying attention to the belligerence of China and unless our politicians speak out we are all eventually going to have to pay the price for their silence.

Giulio I think you have this wrong. If you look at this through the eyes of the PRC and the CCP you have a carefully set stage. Information does not get out of China unless the state wants to let it out. This particular kabuki show was very carefully managed.

There are no accidents!
The obvious problem, that no one is addressing, comes from the mistaken belief that China would never deliberately infect their own people merely to provide cover for an attack on the West. A provocative thought to say the least. Impossible you say... not so fast. Riddle me this, how is it that a country of 1.4 billion with barely adequate medical care only had under 90,000 infections and slightly over 4,500 deaths? Maybe it is because that is the sort of collateral damage you would want in a field test to make it "look convincing". We must always remember, to the Chinese Communist Party, citizens are soldiers. Could never happen? Tell that to the millions that lost their lives during the Cultural Revolution. Don't think for a minute a country that believes that it must avenge the "great shame" the West inflicted upon her prior to Mao wouldn't look for a way to destabilize America and Europe. The CCP is rife with that sort of vitriolic irredentism. If that wasn't the intent the CCP would have locked Wuhan -indeed all of China- down to international travel as well. They would have gone out of their way to behave like responsible global partners. They didn't. What they did was to use modern air travel as a means to share their new "present" with the West.

It is so obvious that the Chinese Communist Party deliberately used modern travel networks as a means of infecting and then hobbling the West that it barely warrants any sort of discussion at all. If the time-line isn't damning enough to indict, the relative de minimis amount of infection and death in China, in and of itself, lends support to the view that the release of the virus was carefully planned. Indeed, one could reasonably argue that if the infection in Wuhan was not simply a means of covering up a bio engineered attack on the West then the number of infections and deaths in Hubei Province alone would have been much greater. Why? Simply because China would have been woefully unprepared for the onslaught. We in the West have much better medical care and had "sort of" a heads-up and look what happened to us. As if it wasn't enough to merely infect us they deliberately misdirected us as to the R0 factor and that it had become an airborne pathogen capable of human to human transmission so we would not adequately prepare.

The Chinese are not lying about the numbers of infected and dead. The numbers in China are low by design. The West is being duped...again.

As any decent military strategist well knows, bio-weapons are not intended to destroy an enemy rather they are used to demoralize and ruin your enemy's economy and ability to wage war. In this respect it is certainly working quite well, at least on the economic front. Maybe even better than expected especially in a US election year. But if it wasn't an engineered pathogen it scarcely matters. Natural or not the CCP still knew what it had, covered it up and unleashed it on the West. They then managed the release of information so we wouldn't be properly prepared. The question, of course, is why now? Why strike at this particular time? My guess is it has something to do with the success of the American trade negotiations. Much as Japan felt compelled to attack Pearl Harbour, after Washington cut off her oil supplies, in 1941 it could very well be that the trade deal was going to destabilize the Chinese economy. It certainly caused China to lose face. We have known for some time that China's GDP numbers were grossly overstated and that its credit markets are in trouble. It is conceivable that China felt she had little choice but to try to level the playing field in order to buy time and further consolidate her Belt and Road initiative. If this line of reasoning is anywhere close to being true it underscores the point that the CCP are a very dangerous lot that can't be trusted. The most troubling bit -and the very smart people at the Pentagon know this- could be that China or factions within the regime were/are getting ready for a first strike and this possibility is likely why the NORAD complex in Cheyenne Mountain was activated. It also may be why Russia offered and the US uncharacteristically accepted the gift of medical supplies. That was likely staged so that folks would know who was on what side in this. I suspect Putin was sending a not so subtle message that Russia sees what China is up to and that Xi Jinping (aka Winnie the Pooh) needs to tread very carefully.

Our failing is that we in the West expect China to have adopted Western values as she became more prosperous through trade with the West. The end goal was that prosperous trade would inexorably lead to the democratization of China replete with a western style of government. Indeed, that was part of George F. Kennan's doctrine of containment. That has not occurred in China and will likely never materialize. The Chinese Communist Party is one of the most xenophobic regimes on the planet. Moreover, the goals of the West are incompatible with the goals of the CCP. The West evolved as a sisterhood of nation states with common values. China developed as a monolithic state which viewed people from outside the "Middle Kingdom" as physical and intellectual inferiors. The West seeks trade for economic benefit. China seeks to use trade as a means to dominate then destroy or subjugate the West. In their view the rise of the West in the 19th and 20th centuries is an aberration. In the long run, mere reparations for China deliberately infecting the West, even if they were proffered, are inadequate. The real long-term solution is that the CCP must be isolated much as Covid-19 must now be. Their recent threat of restricting medical supplies and pharmaceuticals was not an empty bluff. That we in the West are dependent on a hostile regime with long supply lines is hubris on steroids. The Chinese know this and view us as foolish for not recognizing our folly.

Stateside the squabbling in Washington continues to fascinate. Democrats seem to want to continue locking down their citizenry and by extension destroying their various state economies likely because they believe it's the only way Mr. Biden, their very best dementia candidate for President, has a chance. China has not misread this. They know that America is divided and are their own worst enemy. So the Democrats yell and squeal about how Trump supposedly mismanaged the crisis desperately looking for anything to take him down. Daily television, internet and print media, our modern bread and circuses, produce the pablum for the masses. Republicans gnash their teeth as the media deliberately misinterprets most everything and the dance goes on. Democrats relentlessly dig their heels in concentrating on their one goal regardless Everyone vying for ratings, hopelessly selling the country they say they love down the proverbial drain for a dollar. Again, China has not misread this. Wouldn't it just be icing on the cake if it came out that some Democrats or Republicans were/are in cahoots with China to destabilize their own country for their own political ends? That is probably a bridge too far but who knows. Wouldn't surprise me much though. Many have not behaved nor are they currently behaving as patriotic Americans. Someone should look into it because clearly something isn't right here. Someone isn't telling us the whole story.

Of course, this will be labelled a conspiracy theory or racist or something like it to distract our attention from what is really going on. What we often ignore however is that history is chock full of real conspiracies. Palace intrigue is alive and well on little ole planet Earth. If this were not so Machiavelli would be remembered as a kind old doddering relic and his gift of The Prince a quaint bedtime story. He and it have not been so viewed. As to the racism argument, the other screed used extensively to shut people up, there is so much of it on this rock and so much of it practised by peoples other than western societies that we should argue about it later when we have the luxury of being more introspective. Anyway, we all had better get our game faces on folks because like it or not we are already at war.

Good luck out there.