The recent release of an unclassified summary by the Intelligence Community (IC) of its investigation into China’s role in the COVID pandemic encourages us to discount China’s significant culpability in this disaster, downplaying its responsibility for the pandemic unleashed on its territory and its role in the deadly spread of COVID around the world.
It implies that China’s unacceptable behavior since the pandemic was unleashed, can be explained away and thus ignored. If our IC insists on promoting this rose-colored view of China, if this wishful thinking really reflects what our IC believes, the world is in deep trouble.
China views the U.S. as its primary global adversary, in the short term wanting to achieve peer status with the U.S, in the long term wanting to be the dominant world power.
We can assess with a high degree of confidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been actively involved in advanced virus research, improving genetic targeting capabilities; that the CCP facilitated the global spread of the COVID-19 virus; that the CCP used its influence with the World Health Organization (WHO) to spread a major disinformation campaign; and that while the origins and initial awareness of the virus by the Chinese government cannot be clearly ascertained, the Chinese government has used the pandemic to further its global economic and political agenda. Its behavior has been ruthless and malicious. The implication that China is essentially innocent of any ill will is in the report only because some senior official wanted to include it!
This attempt to placate China by writing off its malicious behavior rewards an aggressive China, and only invites more of the same.
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Knowing our recent history with China (at least with Clinton, Obama, and Biden) there’s no question this is appeasement. Too many of our politicians and bureaucrats (like Biden and Fauci) stand to gain from pandering to China.
They will let the rest of the country (and the world) go to hell, as long as they get rich and powerful doing it! In fact, that seems to be the actual plan.
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