“How the Wuhan Virus Will Change the World Order”
Here’s an excerpt:
We don’t know exactly when Beijing officials learned about Wuhan’s troubles, but it was probably early- to mid-December. They didn’t learn earlier because local officials know the surest way to lose your position is to give your boss bad news. So they withheld it. When Beijing did learn, it intensified the crackdown and enforced stay-at-home orders. The CCP then delayed telling the world. It also refused multiple offers of medical help. Some say they refused out of national pride. Perhaps, but they also feared what outside professionals might find.
Meanwhile, Beijing continued to send official delegations around the world, including one to the White House and a huge one to Davos, long after it knew the dangers. Far worse, it allowed more than 750,000 people to fly to the U.S. in December, January, and February, again, after CCP officials knew the virus was highly contagious and spreading quickly. Where did they fly, besides America? Well, Italy, for starters. Wherever Chinese people like to vacation. And wherever China has economic and strategic interests. The first global hot spots show exactly where they landed. The contagion spread its deadly tentacles from there.
Why didn’t the World Health Organization sound the alarm? For two reasons: It had bad information (from China) and it never confronts Beijing, which effectively controls the organization, even though it is a far-smaller donor than the U.S. The CCP has a crucial say over who holds senior positions at the WHO, and it shows. That’s why a top official there actually hung up — on camera — when a reporter had the temerity to ask about Taiwan’s success in combating the virus. That’s why, in mid-January, the WHO was still telling the world exactly what China told them: The novel-coronavirus did not spread by human-to-human contact. The WHO probably believed that, but by then Beijing must have known it was false. The WHO also opposed President Trump’s decision to block travel from China, the most important early step to limit the pandemic in America.
The WHO’s fecklessness mattered. According to Dr. Deborah Birx, reports from the WHO and China led U.S. health officials to think, wrongly, that this problem was much like SARS, serious but manageable. It was far worse than that and far more contagious. We should have been told.
Much much more at the link.
I’ve seen references today that US intelligence agencies were aware of Xi’s disease in November. If that’s true, how did they know before Beijing? CCP had purged US assets in the early days of Obama, as I recall. And we’re not good at developing human assets, so I doubt we were able to replace those losses.
Interception of electronic messages began on a massive scale in 1914 when the powers fighting WWI understood it’s value.
Geo-Synchronus Spy Satellites over China could have intercepted cell phone messages.
Getting a small clandestine router into a major internet switching center is possible too.
Tracking Wireless phone locations surreptitiously in a foreign country is another possible scheme. Is your smartphone on all the time? Mine is.
The CIA gets all the press as the ‘public’ face of the US intelligence community.
‘No Such Agency’ or the National Security Agency and the NRO or the National Reconnaissance Office get $10’s of billions a year to do such interceptions.
Not a bad article. The Z Man would like to suggest a few further points for everyone’s consideration:
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=20210
If the west was sane and given how much damage the Chinese did and openly prevented this from being controlled the only rational act would be to quarantine China from the rest of the world for at least a decade until they learn to act like a responsible country. Fat chance of that.
The first order of business for government and quasi-government organizations is to defend the operations and existence. Eventually they all become political. Chinese culture seems to have made this behavior worse.
You wanna see what appears to be yet another huge “dot,” to connect?
Take a look at this article out today–
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/huge-exclusive-chinese-doctor-shi-zhengli-ran-coronavirus-research-wuhan-us-project-shut-dhs-2014-risky-prior-leak-killed-researcher/
What did Nancy Pelosi know, and when did she know it?
Since the Democrats have moles in all of the executive agencies*, they had to have known everything as soon as (or sooner) than the President, even if not briefed personally.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/491712-us-intelligence-warned-in-november-that-virus-spreading
UPDATE
Busted before I got the comment finished!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/abc-publishes-damaging-report-on-trump-coronavirus-response-military-official-shreds-it
I used to trust at least The Hill to vet news flashes, but from now on it’s gonna be the Three-Day Rule on every BREAKING!!!!! report from any source.
*MSM reporters are aptly called Democrats with bylines, and Schiff is one of their stringers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-accused-of-sending-letter-to-media-before-acting-director-of-national-intelligence-who-responds-on-twitter?utm_content=non_insiders&utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_k1X1QMElUdbUQgSJyg5lx7Bc1kLj6vb_pXiH09GCjTrjJNykBFGQac8_PajLsU0y4YVxe-rgySC3kqdq0Ni2az8V6og&_hsmi=86075803
The US became an economic colony of a totalitarian regime in China. China produces, we consume. That is patently insane, but so-called ‘globalism’ was OK under the administrations of both Bushs, Clinton and Obama.
Only Trump raised the banner, and has been decried as ‘nationalism’, as if that were an evil.
In 1992, Bill Clinton got elected because of H Ross Perot. He was warning about “that huge sucking sound” of Mexico getting US jobs, and a good number of Reps heard him – enough to suck away Bush 41 support.
Elite Reps are globalists, and anti-nationalists. In Europe, thanks to WW II (and a bit of WW I?), “nationalism” has a terrible name, much worse than Stalinism or even totalitarianism (too long). The elite demonization of Hitler, who was only a little worse than US ally Stalin, has warped many elites into being anti-patriotic.
The USA is more of a country, a legal state, rather than a “nation” like Germans, French, or Kurds. Oh, wait – there is a Kurdish “nation” without a state. Some 25 million – more than the 4.5 million Slovaks in Slovakia, which is shared with Hungarian Slovak citizens, and Roma (Gypsy) Slovak citizens.
Most countries are going to increase their national patriotism. And less acceptance of non-assimilating immigration, a trend that was already happening.
The “experts” have blown it, a lot. See tweets from Scott Adams:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1246766794884280329