Chinese government officials are shocked, shocked — no wait, make that “extremely shocked!” — that the World Health Organization (no less) proposes “to further investigate whether the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan.”
“We are asking China to be transparent, open and cooperate,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.’s director-general, “especially on the information, raw data that we asked for in the early days of the pandemic.”
But yesterday, at a Beijing news conference, the vice minister of the Chinese National Health Commission, Zeng Yixin, shared his feelings that “this plan revealed a lack of respect for common sense and an arrogant attitude toward science. We can’t possibly accept such a plan for investigating the origins.”
Instead, Zeng suggested searching for “signs of natural transmission . . . and the possibility that the virus may have first spread outside China” . . . or perhaps chasing after wild geese.
“[S]everal Chinese officials asserted that the W.H.O. inquiry got it right the first time,” explained The New York Times, “and that there was no evidence to justify renewed checks of the labs.”
“Renewed”? That supposes that labs at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have previously been inspected, forensically, and the personnel interviewed — not to mention a ton of essential evidence on the virus shared and analyzed. None of that has happened.
The joint WHO-China investigation was no such thing. It was a transparent* scam to dismiss the lab-leak theory as “extremely unlikely” without scrutiny. Even the head of the W.H.O. publicly backed away from its own finding, declaring that more investigation was needed.
Only major U.S. media still buy Chinazi gaslighting . . .
. . . or express surprise that the genocidal mobsters running China won’t cooperate in holding themselves accountable.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* No doubt, this marks the absolute zenith of transparency for the Chinese Communist Party.
art: transparent / floater
ADDITIONAL LINKS
The Man the Media Missed — June 8, 2021
The Worshipful and the Incurious — June 3, 2021
The Sound of Sino-Silence? — March 22, 2021
Now Safe to Blame? — March 8, 2021
Good Relations with Genocide? — November 24, 2020
Soft on China — April 29, 2020
Follow the (Media) Money — April 21, 2020
3 replies on “Transparency with Chinese Characteristics”
Why should we believe anything China or the W.H.O. says about Wuhan or anything else? They’ve been in bed together for almost two years. Neither is to be trusted, ever again. Tedros needs to go.
Putting China and transparency in the same article, much less the same sentence is insane.
But then again, putting the Biden regime and transparency in the same sentence is equally as insane.
“That supposes that labs at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have previously been inspected, forensically, and the personnel interviewed — not to mention a ton of essential evidence on the virus shared and analyzed. None of that has happened.”
Well, except when it did happen, that is (March 2021).
I suppose that pretending a hypothesis is a theory necessarily requires ignoring anything that doesn’t fit the premise.