Chinese army colonel says avian flu is an American plot against China

Washington Post ^ | 04/10/2013 | Max Fisher

[SeekAndFind]

Colonel Dai Xu of the People’s Liberation Army wrote online that the new strain of bird flu hitting China, known as H7N9, is an American “bio-psychological weapon” meant to destabilize China. The rant, posted to Dai’s account on the Twitter-like service Weibo, had already been shared by more than 30,000 fellow users by the time that the South China Morning Post reported it on Monday. Dai now has a quarter million followers on Weibo, which is quite a platform.

In general, Chinese Web users appear to have rejected Dai’s argument. In response to the criticism, though, he’s only dug in. “It is common knowledge that a group of people in China have been injected with mental toxin by the U.S.,” he wrote at one point. “I will not retreat even half a step.” He urged Chinese officials to ignore the virus’s apparent spread and argued that the disastrous 2003 SARS outbreak was also an American plot.

Dai’s conspiracy theory does not appear to be widely held, although fears about the United States and its supposed secret desire to topple the Chinese Communist Party are not uncommon among Chinese officials. He is a lecturer at the National Defence University, giving him a not insignificant platform for his theories and the worldview behind them.

[RatRipper]

That is nuts. . . we are only plotting against ourselves right now. . . no time for two plots at once.

[DManA]

Hey Colonel, you’re lucky we don’t give you AIDS.

[molson209]

If the Chinese would stop sleeping with birds ,then bird flu would stay with birds

[EEGator]

Don’t forget about crack to use against the black community.

[Jyotishi]

Hey China, do you want Obama for interrogation purposes in order to solve the case?

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the Eastern bloc propaganda in the 1960s about the CIA planting potato beetles to destroy the crops.

[Jyotishi]

You can’t have him because he’s ours!

[EEGator]

I’ve never heard that before...I like that one.

[A message]

Dang, they figured it out. Once we destabilize China we take over their factories and Unionize them all. Once Chinese workers are making $60K a year with great benefits and luscious pensions Wal-Mart is screwed and we’ll use Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese laborers for our cheap slave labor product.

[yldstrk]

if only we were that smart, but we are not

[veracious]

Wrong plot. MOOTA via the -Reserve- is the name of the main game.

[SampleMan]

It was the GOP war on women, but because of the use of British contractors, with American subs, the virus was mistakenly targeted against birds. Dang English slang. The Chinese are just innocent collateral damage.