‘Had any other nation unleashed Covid we would never hear the end of it. Instead, we’ve rolled over’ | Daily Mail Online
Not surprisingly, US President Joe Biden has, in effect, given up on the WHO investigation and asked the US intelligence community to come up with its own verdict.
Sadly, the British Government remains muted about China s responsibility for this global debacle.
The fact is that Ministers have form on placating Beijing refusing to impose import controls on Chinese products suspected to have been made using slave labour.
I am sorry to say, but I, like many others, believe this is a policy of appeasement of the kind which, in the 1930s, cost the world much in human terms.
Governments across the globe many in the media, too, with the notable exception of this newspaper seem to have given up on trying to get to the truth about Covid and understand how our world was turned upside down.
I am surprised, for example, how BBC News has reported very little on the subject.
Had the cause of this tragedy been the responsibility of any other nation, I wager that scarcely a day would have gone by without loud calls for the perpetrator to be held to account.
Also, it was very wrong that when Australia bravely called for an inquiry, China retaliated by imposing punitive sanctions on its wine and barley exports and most other governments failed to back Australia.
Meanwhile, independent research continues into the virus s origins. A Southampton University study has found that if the authorities in Wuhan had intervened earlier, the number of cases could have been reduced by up to 95 per cent.
As millions continue to mourn those who have died, it is only fair to ask: Why do the WHO, other global institutions and governments continue to kow-tow to China, a secretive and repressive regime that breaks all the norms of decent behaviour?
A regime that commits genocide on its own people, suppresses freedom of speech, human rights and the rule of law and now covers up its own guilt over the death of so many beyond its own borders?
I guess we know something of what it was like to be alive in the 1920s and 30s and witness the rise of the Nazis and the Communists. I half-heartedly hope I’m dead before the West faces its reckoning against China. But my first choice is that we wake the f*&% up. That does seem to be beginning, slightly, however. We’ll see with the upcoming genocide Olympics scheduled for 2022. “Genocide” doesn’t capture all of the CCP’s crimes of course — it’s a just a shorthand.