Coronavirus Is Not Chinese Germ Warfare (Not Exactly)
I & I Editorial Board
March 18, 2020
Communist China’s state media propaganda organ Xinhua just boasted that Beijing could choose to “impose pharmaceutical export controls which would plunge America into the mighty sea of coronavirus.†This, because almost all the chemicals used to make generic drugs in the U.S. are manufactured in mainland China.
Before you laugh off the threat, consider that the Food and Drug Administration just announced there is already one coronavirus-related drug shortage within the country, without identifying which drug.
This is the language of an enemy. There can be no more pretending that China is anything less than exactly that. In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the country’s armed forces to be modernized by 2035 and reach top-ranked status in the world by 2050. U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper in December warned Congress that we were now in “a new era of great-power competition†and that “China first and Russia second are now the department’s top priorities.â€
What sort of enemy is it exactly that we face? One that would allow 3,000 of its own people to die in three months as it covered up the initial onset and spread of this new Wuhan virus, rather than accept help from the superpower, which thanks to economic and political freedoms is home to the world’s top infectious disease experts, it seeks to unseat.
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