by Richard Schulman
Founders Broadsheet was one of the first news sources to highlight the truth that China’s Xi Jinping dictatorship is the real reason a new virus in Wuhan metastasized into a world health threat. Now that realization is becoming widespread in the West and is even beginning to be realized in China itself, though few there dare speak of this publicly. The regime’s one-month-long paralysis, during which time it showed itself resolute in only one thing — threatening with jail the doctors who warned of the outbreak — shows the Xi dictatorship unfit to rule.
Chinese doctors on the front line in Wuhan realized the danger already in the second half of December. They tried to warn other doctors and urge the national authorities to take emergency measures. Instead of doing so, the Beijing regime and its local flunkies threatened the doctors with jail. One of these, Dr. Li Wenliang, who on December 30th dared to discuss with his colleagues the many patients in his hospital who had become infected with a SARS-like disease, was one of the threatened doctors. Finally, on January 20th, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping acknowledged publicly the existence of the Wuhan virus and the need for urgent health measures.
Dr. Li meanwhile himself contracted the disease and died, creating a nationwide outpouring of grief and anger against the hated Beijing regime.
Five million, potentially infected, fled
As soon as the SARS-like epidemic became public knowledge, an estimated five million people fled Wuhan for elsewhere in the region, China, and the world at large. Many of those who fled were likely carriers of the virus. Three days later the authorities quarantined the city, but that counted for little once so many potential carriers had fled.
The regime in characteristic cowardly fashion is trying to make local Wuhan authorities the scapegoats for the failure to contain the virus in December when it was still manageable. But the Wuhan authorities understandably didn’t dare lift a finger until permission was given by the Xi dictatorship in Beijing.
Inadequate health system
China’s health system is a disaster. Doctors don’t have the protective gear they need nor the medicines. Forty to fifty percent of those who have become ill with the Wuhan coronavirus contracted it in Wuhan’s hospitals. That is also the percentage of health workers who have come down with the virus.
Although supposedly the risk of death from the virus is concentrated in the elderly with compromised immune systems, the death of Dr. Li, who was thirty-three years old, shows that even young people, especially exposed medical personnel, are vulnerable.
The Beijing government meanwhile has refused the offer of technical assistance from Western countries, including the US, which have technical experts that China lacks.
Chinese vaunted military MIA
In cases of national emergency, it is customary for a nation’s military to provide as much assistance as possible. For weeks, the Chinese military did little despite Xi Jinping’s previous claims to the people that this potential use was one of the justifications for so much of the national budget going to the military rather than other needs, such as health care. Worse, the army’s main logistics unit for the entire country, with control over warehoused supplies and transport vehicles, is located in Hubei, the province that Wuhan is the capital of. It did nothing for weeks.
Chinese media, which are state controlled, were meanwhile spreading lies about how the state had instantly created a hospital in Wuhan for virus sufferers. Buzzfeed News reports:
The image [of the new “coronavirus hospital”] actually shows a modular apartment building more than 600 miles away in Qingdao, China, and was taken from an online listing. The out-of-context photo was shared in tweets from the verified accounts of Global Times and People’s Daily, both of which are state media outlets, and was tweeted by Lijian Zhao, deputy director general of the information department in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Official government statistics are probably lies
Official Chinese coronavirus infection and death statistics are probably as reliable as the government’s economics statistics, which is to say, very little. The official statistics published February 8th admit that the 811 deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus have now exceeded those from the previous SARS virus. But leaks from China’s Tencent paint a far more disturbing picture:
Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths. Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus….As many experts question the veracity of China’s statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend appeared to inadvertently release what is potentially the actual number of infections and deaths — which are far higher than official figures, but eerily in line with predictions from a respected scientific journal.
Haze over city, crematoria working overtime
Pointing in the same direction as the Tencent leak, on February 5th, the official Chinese government figure for deaths thus far was 500, but “Chinese crematoriums are working ’24/7′ as they burn bodies of people killed by the coronavirus in Wuhan…Workers are reportedly working flat out and without break as they are constantly sent the bodies of victims – it is claimed they have been burning 100 bodies every day since January 28.” There is said to be a haze over the city from the crematoria.
Why Beijing regime risks lying
Xi Jinping and his rubber-stamp Communist Party Politburo have reason to hold back the truth from the people. “[T]he country’s current public health crisis could threaten the party’s rule and erode the people’s trust in the authoritarian centralized system which the Chinese leaders have been plugging as the be all and end all for building up the country into the second-largest economy in the world,” a columnist in the semi-independent South China Morning Post writes. The article is titled “Coronavirus: what Xi fears most is Chinese turning on the Communist Party.”
Outside China, the Xi regime is falling into disrepute regarding its actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and its resounding failure to swing Taiwan’s recent election in its favor. Add to that geopolitical strategist George Friedman’s comments:
A chief responsibility of the Chinese president is to manage relations with its most important customer, the United States….It was expected that President Xi Jinping could continue this process. He failed to manage U.S. President Donald Trump…[T]here is a rule in business that you should never have a fight with your best customer. Xi violated this rule by winding up in a tariff fight with the United States.
And this is without even considering the damage to China and the world’s economy that Xi’s Wuhan equivocating may cause. The yellow hazmat suits could be the harbingers of the red CP’s greatest fear, an Orange Revolution.
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