Posted on 05/10/2020 5:26:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING - China has issued a lengthy rebuttal of what it said were 24 “preposterous allegations” by some leading U.S. politicians over its handling of the new coronavirus outbreak.
The Chinese foreign ministry has dedicated most of its press briefings over the past week to rejecting accusations by U.S. politicians, especially Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that China had withheld information about the new coronavirus and that it had originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan.
A 30-page, 11,000-word article posted on the ministry website on Saturday night repeated and expanded on the refutations made during the press briefings, and began by invoking Abraham Lincoln, the 19th century U.S. president.
“As Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all the time and fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” it said in the prologue.
The article also cited media reports that said Americans had been infected with the virus before the first case was confirmed in Wuhan. There is no evidence to suggest that is the case.
Keen to quash U.S. suggestions that the virus was deliberately created or somehow leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the article said that all evidence shows the virus is not man-made and that the institute is not capable of synthesising a new coronavirus.
The article also provided a timeline of how China had provided information to the international community in a “timely”, “open and transparent” manner to rebuke U.S. suggestions that it had been slow to sound the alarm.
Despite China’s repeated assurances, concerns about the timeliness of its information have persisted in some quarters.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Chuck Fina!
And I bet these Reuters people were happy to buy the Soviet Union’s “story” about Chernobyl.
Reuters writes about a response to 24 lies, with 12 sentences.
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When words no longer have meaning, then the Press has no place in society.
Ah, the ol' "baffle 'em with bulls*t" tactic.
Where is the document?
This was an ct of war and should be treated as such.
This is just a notice that China issued the document.
"Lies" is in quotes ('lies') to show that this is the language China is using.
It's not Reuters saying that the things that China is denying aren't true.
Great to hear from Al Reuters...you can always depend on them for unbiased reports.
I’m making my own preposterous allegation:
China needs to be rid of a quarter to a half billion people. A war would do it, but would devastate the infrastructure. The Wuhan bioweapons lab cooked up and was testing a virus for the purpose, one that would kill off mostly the “right” people; the elderly and medically compromised (the communists consider them “useless eaters”). But the young and healthy (the “workers”) would mostly recover.
When it got loose earlier than planned, the communist leaders banned travel from Wuhan to other parts of China. But they decided to see how it would affect the enemy (that’s US, folks) so they permitted travel to the rest of the world. They may have even sent infected agents out to spread it.
Combined with our over-cautious reaction, it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
I have vowed to boycott ChiComs, if its made in China I just don’t buy it and go without.
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