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China Boomeranging
National Review ^ | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 03/18/2020 5:06:53 AM PDT by bryan999

Sometime in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.

Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.

All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 — the first major leader to enact such a total ban.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201911; 202001; 20200231; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 03/18/2020 5:06:53 AM PDT by bryan999
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World condemnation of china is in order but will not materialize, they are feckless and spineless, Trump will make sure we are not


2 posted on 03/18/2020 5:12:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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Best way we can fix this mess is to bring manufacturing back to the US.

We also need to cut off Chinese students studying here in the US...they're robbing us blind.

3 posted on 03/18/2020 5:13:43 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ronnie raygun

China MUST be held to account.

The unleashed a pestilence on the entire world, and subject their own citizens to unimaginably oppressive and brutal treatment.

The Left likes to call Trump Hitler, but we know who the modern day Hitlers really are.


4 posted on 03/18/2020 5:16:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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It was obvious a bioweapon that escaped not thus bat soup BS but the CCP / military decided to
take down the West by shutting down the country but let
the infected flee here . Shared destruction .
But Beijing kept its Wall Street closed during the ugly clamp down .

Now I see China has charter flying its students / spies back .
Did these students knowing come here infected ?

Its time to ban all Chinese travel , all students , all green cards like the China who infected 40 people in Seattle, and H 1 visas .
We want inspectors allowed in to find the real source of this Wuhan Chines virus .

5 posted on 03/18/2020 5:18:46 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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Call it paradox, irony, karma, or even tragedy, but China emerges from its deceit about the coronavirus outbreak in its weakest position since its Westernization began under Deng Xiaoping.

What Xiaoping is doing is not Westernization. It's CHICOM directed theft and subversion of the West. The sleeping dragon is now "woke."

6 posted on 03/18/2020 5:20:35 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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This Chinese virus disaster had better inspire voters and our “glorious leaders” to stop globalism and shun China. This incident was nothing short of an act of war. We cannot go back to business as usual. There will always be a threat of a disease originating from China. If any of these domestic commie one worlders open their yap and try to tell us that we’re racist or whatever,they need to be bitch slapped. I’m pissed. We’ve been shouting for years to change the insane status quo and have been ignored. All of the so called benefits of globalism that has been crammed down our throats for decades has been proved in an instant to be a fools errand.


7 posted on 03/18/2020 5:21:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: ealgeone

They are not students. They are spies along with the professors and university administrators. All of them work on behalf of their communist masters.


8 posted on 03/18/2020 5:22:27 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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9 posted on 03/18/2020 5:22:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ronnie raygun

This story (yes, Ivanka has the Gisele Bundchen virus) made me wonder if the Kushner daughter is still learning Chinese:

https://pagesix.com/2020/03/17/ivanka-trump-plays-in-family-fort-amid-pandemic-and-more-star-snaps/?_ga=2.192911722.1372415571.1583759397-465588520.1583270025


10 posted on 03/18/2020 5:23:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ealgeone

Agreed. China must be treated as a consumer nation from now on. No longer a supplier of anything but silk and fireworks.

They just screwed-the-pooch.


11 posted on 03/18/2020 5:23:32 AM PDT by Spruce
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For later.

L


12 posted on 03/18/2020 5:24:59 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: bryan999

Excellent piece by VDH. This is a singular test of the mettle of the people of the USA. This really matters.


13 posted on 03/18/2020 5:25:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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The best way to bring back manufacturing and pay government debts is with a really high import tariff.


14 posted on 03/18/2020 5:26:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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HAVE I TOLD YOU HOW MUCH ID DESPISE THE MEDIA AND NASTY AND SAN FRANCISCO.


15 posted on 03/18/2020 5:29:43 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ealgeone

“Best way we can fix this mess is to bring manufacturing back to the US. We also need to cut off Chinese students studying here in the US...they’re robbing us blind.”

Exactly right. Send them home.


16 posted on 03/18/2020 5:35:40 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: central_va

And revoke their “Most Favored Nation” status.


17 posted on 03/18/2020 5:39:43 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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亞洲病夫 (Sick Man of Asia)

Chinese are sensitive about the subject...

18 posted on 03/18/2020 5:43:25 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about humanity)
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It is time to finally recognize that communist China is as much of an enemy of this country as the USSR ever was. We need to destroy the Chinese government in the same way that we destroyed the Soviet government, by bankrupting them. Of course, we need to bring Manufacturing back here and stop buying from them as much as possible. But we also need to cooperate with other nations to completely cut China off at the knees. The good thing is that every nation surrounding China hates their guts, so it shouldn’t be too hard to put a coalition together.


19 posted on 03/18/2020 5:53:46 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: txrefugee

I read somewhere that some liberal judge had issued an order some months ago negating Trump’s travel ban on Iran; as a consequence, there are spikes of coronavirus “hotspots” where in the US most Iranian travelers entered the country. Another example of some bubbleheaded judge substituting his half assed judgment for that of an elected official who has the backing of experts and access to expert knowledge, with disastrous results for our fellow Americans.


20 posted on 03/18/2020 5:56:27 AM PDT by laconic
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