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NANKEEN – It was predictable. And it is happening. The day after the publication of the study by a group of researchers from the University of Milan, according to which traces of coronavirus were found in the swab performed on a Milanese child who fell ill on November 21, the Chinese regime’s media are giving wide coverage to the news. It was picked up by state television news, the Closed TV circuit, from the regime’s media as Global times, in the Mandarin edition, or the National Business Journal, and since this afternoon it circulates widely on social networks. The reason is clear: by revealing a positive abroad that precedes the first case officially recognized by the Dragon, set on the calendar on December 8, the study fits perfectly with the regime’s narrative on the origin of the virus, according to which the epidemic could be started outside of China. Not only. the Global times, nationalist media at the forefront of this campaign, goes a step further by asking that the area where the Italian case was revealed, therefore Lombardy, be included in the investigation of the World Health Organization on the origins of the pathogen, such as Wuhan and Hubei.
The objective of the Chinese counter-narrative, which takes advantage of the usual scientific uncertainties about the onset of pandemics to prove the hypothesis of the virus “imported from abroad”, a hypothesis for which there is no evidence, is precisely to divert international attention. of its territory and the attributions of responsibility in the initial management of the pandemic. In this propaganda campaign, Chinese scientists and media selectively use tests and studies from abroad. The Tumor Institute of Milan, which had identified antibodies in some blood samples dating from September, had already played a leading role, until it was integrated into the official narrative. And so it was with the one published two days ago by the State University team. The Chinese media report the results as final data, omitting any element of precaution, such as the possibility that the analyzed samples were contaminated.
But the step forward taken by the Global times in the article published this morning is unpublished and deserves attention. The official position of the Chinese government, “the search for the origin of the virus is a complex scientific question (…) that could involve several countries”, a useful position to divert the focus from Wuhan, until now has avoided any direct reference to other nations. Today, however, the regime’s newspaper explicitly says that the WHO must include in its survey work the area from which the child comes, hence Lombardy. It will be interesting to see if the authorities will also accept the request.
