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There is ample evidence that the virus comes from the Wuhan laboratory. China has done everything possible to keep it hidden. Classic communist disinformation operation. But they will respond. United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo openly accuses the country led by Xi Jinping of failing to stop the worldwide spread of Covid-19. Difficult claims that could have a major impact on relations between the two superpowers. Interviewed yesterday on TV alphabetPompeo confirmed, with unprecedented force, the suspicions cultivated in recent months. We have said from the beginning that this virus originated in Wuhan. There is enormous evidence. We must remember that China has a history of infections that spread worldwide and a history of substandard laboratories. This is not the first time that the world has been exposed to a virus that results from mistakes made in a Chinese laboratory. (Here new scientific evidence against conspiracy theory)
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collaboration
Question of alphabet: Did the Beijing government intentionally hide the severity of the pandemic to harm Western countries? Pompeo did not reply. Instead, he insisted on the lack of collaboration, even now that the world crisis: they continue to prevent access to Westerners, our best doctors. But our experts need to go there. We still don’t have the samples we need.
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the intelligence
The head of American diplomacy, therefore, relaunches the overtures presented by Donald Trump on Thursday, April 30. The President had speculated: Something terrible must have happened in Wuhan Labs. It may have been a mistake, something that happened inadvertently, or someone did it on purpose. Pompeo’s departure must be inserted in a still opaque scenario, with the secret services appearing to be cut for political reasons, while the State Department is gradually refining its position. No one, and Pompeo said it clearly, doubts the first conclusion of the intelligence. On April 30, the Dni, the directorate that coordinates all the spy agencies, had specified: the virus was not man-made or manipulated, we investigated rigorously to understand if there may have been an accident in the Wuhan laboratory.
Worlds that don’t love each other
a posture of waiting and seeing, accompanied by indiscretions about the White House’s alleged pressure on the CIA, two worlds that have never loved each other since Trump. Public positions are intertwined with reconstructions in the media. The Australian newspaper Daily telegraphHe claims to have obtained a 15-page report prepared by 007 of the Five Eyes pact, namely Australia, the United States, Great Britain, New Zealand and Canada. What it says The Chinese have eliminated evidence, silenced uncomfortable witnesses, have not provided useful elements to manufacture the vaccine. There is disagreement on the origin of the epidemic if it originated in the laboratory or on the market. The document goes perfectly with the call from the United States, Germany, France and Australia to clarify, the latter determined to invoke an international investigation. A movement that does not necessarily imply a malicious cause of the disaster, but aims to highlight errors and deficiencies.
Psychological warfare
The ball returns to the spies, with the commitment to investigate: one wonders what possibilities they have to discover confidential information. Experts have raised doubts, the CIA has lost many sources. Perhaps hopefully someone will agree to collaborate by opening a breach in the Chinese wall. Maybe it’s a psychological war: annoying Beijing by sowing doubts in a clash beyond Covid 19.
diplomatic community
The United States is working at the diplomatic level. The attempt to involve several countries to request an international commission of inquiry once the most acute phase of the emergency has passed. The first maneuvers are being developed within the WHO, the World Health Organization. The American delegation started with traditional allies: the European countries, Canada and Japan. In Washington, Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to follow up on the transparency request, addressed last week to leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.
Punish Beijing
Finally there is the internal front. The anti-Chinese spirit grows tumultuously and not only in the capital. Republican Missouri Governors Mike Parson and Mississippi Tate Reeves have decided to sue the Chinese government. The initiative immediately raised legal objections. But the political meaning is clear and certainly did not escape in Beijing.
Punitive hypotheses flourish in Congress. There are people like Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator from Tennessee, who proposes to cancel the refund of expired securities or not pay interest (on average equal to 1.2%) on the 1,100 billion US securities held by the Chinese (4, 5% of the total of 24 billion). Republican Senator Tom Cotton, Trump’s regular interlocutor, is asking by law to decouple the economy from China, demanding that US multinationals active in China return. Altogether, Trump would like to preserve the excellent personal relationship with President Xi. But it is hard to imagine the Chinese leader being judged as the number one bearer of world contagion.
May 3, 2020 (change May 3, 2020 | 11:47 pm)
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