US' scapegoating China doomed to fail

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China Military Online
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Chen Zhuo
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2020-05-29 12:15:09

Lately, to divert public attention on the incompetence of the US government in tackling the novel coronavirus outbreak, some US politicians and media organizations have fabricated a series of inconceivable lies such as “Wuhan was the source of the novel coronavirus,” in an attempt to shift blame to China as the situation worsens. In fact, it has been a consensus in the international medical community that the place first reporting the outbreak may not be the source of the virus. Through analyzing earlier cases, some European and American researchers found that infections had already existed before the outbreak in Wuhan. It remains a mystery where the novel coronavirus came from. Tracing the origin of a virus is a serious scientific question, which requires joint efforts of both scientists and medical experts through a science-based approach.

Some US politicians repeatedly scapegoat the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying that the novel coronavirus was created by the institute. However, all existing pieces of evidence have proven that the coronavirus certainly originated from nature, rather than man-made. The P4 laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a cooperative project between Chinese and French governments, and the institute hasn’t the ability to design and produce the novel coronavirus. Also, there is no evidence that the institute underwent any pathogen leakages and human infections. In the past year, the institute received more than 70 foreign scholars from around the world. As one of the dozens of P4 laboratories across the world, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has always maintained a safe, stable operation.

Some US politicians have got accustomed to smearing China, but the international community already got tired of their groundless remarks. Recently, some international media outlets raised sharp questions: Why the US government failed to contain the outbreak of the virus? Why did it rush to shift blame to China and the World Health Organization (WHO)? Whether did the US hide facts about its domestic epidemic situation?

Not long ago, Les Échos, a French-language financial newspaper based in France, published an article, noting that the Trump administration received criticism for its failures in containing the epidemic, and given that there is only six months countdown to the US presidential election, Trump thus scapegoated China and the WHO to appease public discontent. Spain’s Público newspaper pointed out that as the first country reporting the outbreak, China was not only wrongfully criticized for “concealing facts” but also attacked by conspiracy theorists, and it is evident that the US government stigmatizes and claims indemnity against China to conceal its own mistakes. Even the US-based CNN reported that the US failed to take prompt action and neglect the warnings that many other countries have clearly heard.

More and more international media outlets have realized that since the very beginning, the coronavirus crisis hasn’t been merely a public health emergency. The pandemic resulted in countless Americans losing their jobs and huge economic losses. In this context, some US politicians need to shift blame to other countries, and China and the WHO thus became the “targets” of US’ scapegoating.

The attempt of some US politicians to stigmatize and scapegoat China will certainly fail. On the contrary, the international community is urging the US government to disclose the truth about its epidemic situation and respond to the following questions.

First, when was the novel coronavirus found in the US? Through anatomizing three bodies of dead infected patients in Santa Clara, California, it is found that the first death caused by the coronavirus in the US is nearly one month earlier than previously announced. Moreover, all of the three patients had never been to China. More suspiciously, an abnormal “flu” hit the US last autumn. Was it really an influenza epidemic or a coronavirus outbreak?

Second, what have US bio-bases hidden? Unlike the open, transparent operation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the US has nearly 1,000 biological laboratories that have seen the frequent occurrence of accidents, but the US government has never uttered a single word about those accidents. The Fort Detrick biological laboratory is currently the focus of suspicion. Since 1943, the laboratory has been committed to biological and chemical weapon research and was once considered the largest biological and chemical weapon R&D center of the US military. Last July, it was shut down due to an accident, and its employees were required to practice quarantine. After the coronavirus outbreak, the US public asked the government to reveal the true reason behind the shutdown. However, the glib-tongued US politicians kept silent, not only making no response but also secretly removing relevant information from the internet. The international community won’t recklessly conclude whether the novel coronavirus came from the Fort Detrick laboratory. For US politicians, the most imperative thing isn’t to shift blame to others, but to discard their ingrained pride and prejudice, urge the US government to take proper action against the rampant outbreak, disclose facts about its domestic epidemic situation, and strengthen anti-epidemic cooperation with other countries including China. If the US government maintains its wrong practices, this will only worsen the situation it faces in both epidemic control and public opinion.

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