Chinese Media: U.S. Must Listen to ‘Civilized World’ and Stop Questioning Communist Party
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The official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the People’s Daily, disparaged on Sunday the growing number of lawsuits against China for its mishandling of what became the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a “political farce” and a “shame for human civilization.”
The People’s Daily focused on lawsuits in the United States, specifically those that legal authorities have filed in states like Missouri and Mississippi, despite the fact that multiple nations – including Nigeria, Egypt, and Italy – are entertaining similar legal action against the Chinese communist regime for failing to properly address the outbreak when it began in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in the heart of the country. The state lawsuits may soon be aided by Congressional legislation carving out an exception to China’s sovereign immunity in U.S. courts.
Chinese officials initially reacted to reports of a contagious disease spreading in Wuhan by arresting doctors sharing safety tips online. When it alerted the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to the discovery of a new virus, Beijing falsely claimed it did not spread from person to person, a claim the W.H.O. shared with the world. China also pressured countries not to impose travel restrictions on its citizens to prevent the spread of the virus, though it now claims that only “imported” cases are a threat and strictly curtails entry into the country.
One study found that China properly abiding by international public health law could have prevented as many as 95 percent of its documented coronavirus cases.
The People’s Daily nonetheless railed against legal attempts to hold the country accountable, calling them a “political farce” and an affront on longstanding principles of sovereign immunity.
Many international states, including America, adhere to the principle of sovereign immunity, banning its individual citizens from suing foreign states in court. This principle has exceptions – for example, crimes against humanity and war crimes are typically considered the jurisdiction of any court on earth – and American lawmakers have made it possible for its citizens to sue some states in extraordinary circumstances. The most recent instance of this was a law passed during the tenure of President Barack Obama, over his veto, to allow Americans to sue Saudi Arabia for damages related to the September 11, 2001, jihadist attacks.
Sovereign states can be sued in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but only by other state entities.
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In an article titled “U.S. Practice to Claim Compensation for COVID-19 Outbreak a Shame for Human Civilization,” using the W.H.O. name for the Chinese coronavirus, the People’s Daily accuses American officials first of somehow violating international law by noting that the virus originated in China.
“The political farce staged again and again by the U.S., a major country that touts itself as an ‘international leader,’ is astonishing people around the world,” the article asserted.
“U.S. politicians blatantly violated the rules and called the novel coronavirus ‘Chinese virus’ and ‘Wuhan virus.’ While the international society is generally lauding China’s contribution made at huge sacrifice, they are forming cliques for blackmailing,” the People’s Daily accused. “What they have done is an affront to international law and justice. The terms about sovereign immunity in the international law stipulate that the practices and treasure of a country are not bound to the legislation, jurisdiction or administration of other countries.”
“Blatantly trampling upon the sovereignty of other countries and damaging the international rule of law with supremacy, the U.S. is standing on the totally opposite side of international justice,” the column, signed under a penname that implies it is the opinion of the People’s Daily itself, read.
The article then veered into a host of conspiracy theories that have now become regular content in Chinese state media: speculation that the virus originated at a U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland, a vague attempt to tie the pandemic to the use of electronic cigarettes in the United States, and blaming the Wall Street Journal single-handedly for causing the 2008 financial crisis.
“The political manipulation by certain Americans who ignore facts and fabricate data has no moral baseline and deviates from humanity,” the article concluded, urging Americans to listen to “the civilized world” and stop questioning the Communist Party.
The article appears largely to be a response to the Missouri and Mississippi lawsuits, which contend that China must pay redress to Americans hurt physically or economically by the pandemic because the Communist Party could have prevented it from hurting them and chose not to.
“The repeated unlawful and unreasonable acts and omissions of [China] have been injurious to — and have significantly interfered with — the lives, health, and safety of substantial numbers of Missouri residents, ruining lives and damaging the public order and economy of the State of Missouri,” the lawsuit read in part.
The Global Times, another belligerent Chinese state publication, dismissed the lawsuit as “a farce” that has no chance in court because “China’s anti-virus achievements are obvious.” Yet the Communist Party’s mouthpieces have failed to stop publicly fretting about the legal actions.
The Global Times, another belligerent Chinese state publication, dismissed the lawsuit as “a farce” that has no chance in court because “China’s anti-virus achievements are obvious.” Yet the Communist Party’s mouthpieces have failed to stop publicly fretting about the legal actions.
Outside of America, however, other countries are considering similar action. Last week, the Nigerian law firm Azinge and Azinge announced its intention to bring to court a lawsuit against the state of China seeking $200 billion in damages as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the extensively documented acts of racism against black people in China. The Communist Party has claimed for weeks that foreigners were bringing coronavirus into Chinese communities despite the virus originating in the country, resulting in incidents of restaurants, including a local McDonald’s branch, posting notices that black people would not be allowed on the premises. Han Chinese landlords also enacted a mass eviction of black tenants in southern Guangzhou city.
In perhaps the most damning twist against China, the Communist Party itself allowed a lawsuit to move forward last month against Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, for mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak there.
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What
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Posted: Apr 27, 2020 12:01 AM
America’s
China problem is a two-part problem – one part is dealing with those
pangolin-kebabing commie bastards and the other is dealing with their fellow
travelers among our garbage globalist elite here at home. But the Chinese
coronavirus – aptly named the “Chinese coronavirus” because this pandemic is
the result of either Chinese incompetence and/or bizarre bat soup gulping, plus
a lot of standard ChiCom deception – has at least made clear that we better
deal with them before they deal with us. It’s a wake-up call we better heed by
getting woke.
Red China
must be dealt with as what it is – an enemy. If the country’s Maoist mullahs
had decided that they wanted China to spin-up into a first world power and
responsibly assume a place at the world’s head-table by trading fairly,
respecting human rights, not stealing our inventions, and not sending weird
bugs across the globe, cool. But Red China wants to dominate the world.
It can’t
and won’t do it militarily, at least outside its immediate geographic zone of
control. Inside that zone, it wants to be the big bully on the block and it is
only a matter of time before it decides to flex its muscles against Taiwan,
then Vietnam, then Japan, and sometime in the not too distant future, against
us. The fact is that China is building up combat power designed to take on the
U.S., to defeat our strengths (like by building hypersonic missile systems to
take out our carriers), to steal our tech (weird how all their jets look just
like ours), and to dominate in space and cyber. Still, this is a naval conflict
primarily, and we still have some advantages, including good ships (but not
enough) and a longer, stronger naval tradition. You can’t just build massive,
integrated blue water fleets and suddenly be able to employ them effectively.
We have been doing that for a century, but let’s not get cocky. Our naval
traditions today may not be the “rum, sodomy and the lash” that still built a
winning Royal Navy, but they are hardly those of ruthless competence either.
Our ships run into other ships too often, and there’s way too much “social
justice” and not enough “warrior” in the mix. The indiscipline of the captain
of the Roosevelt was appalling and if the bozos with stars
give him back his gig cuz the Twitter blue checks whined, that’s worse. Virtue signaling
one’s feelz isn’t going to win wars.
But even
if our naval traditions were up to snuff, we can’t rely on them to counter the
Chinese quantitative advantage and growing competence and confidence. Remember,
the Japanese Imperial Navy the Westerners pooh-poohed wiped out the Russian
fleet at Tsushima in 1905. Sadly, I would not be
surprised to see an initial battle with Xi the Pooh’s sailors end up in a
“shocking” victory for the ChiComs that should not shock anyone paying
attention.
But the
Chinese main effort is not military. It is economic, supported with information
operations and diplomatic initiatives. The massive, pervasive theft of our
intellectual property has saved China trillions. The unfair trade deals we
still accept have destroyed our manufacturing capability. And the ChiComs are
aided and abetted by the globalist Fifth Columnists here at home who have been
bought off by the opportunity to get rich selling us out to the Reds. Far too
many people at the heights of power in our country, including but not limited
to Grandpa Badfinger’s stoner son Hoover, are getting rich doing China’s
bidding. If you point out that we are educating a generation of Chinese
students and inviting in “scholars” and “workers” who are active agents of
Chinese intelligence and who are stealing us blind, our garbage elite will
provide cover against the necessary steps to stop this looting by labeling it
as “racist.” China is using our idiotic political correctness fixation as a
propaganda weapon, and diplomatically it is going to the rest of the world and
inviting them to sign up with the winning team.
What do
we do?
We need a
massive build-up of conventional military power at sea, in the air, in space, both
outer and cyber. And we need to return to having a serious military that
focuses on killing our enemies and not on pronoun policing and stress card
sissification. Without both, our first day of war with China – which our
fecklessness makes certain to come – will make Pearl Harbor look like a group
hug.
We need
to take this moment to understand that Red China is a hostile power seeking to
defeat us economically. We need to aggressively repatriate critical industries
home from China. We need our own drug industry back, our own rare-earth mining
capacity, our own steel sector. We need to waive the frivolous regulatory
nonsense that made China attractive to businesses in the first place. If the
EPA keeps us from mining rare earth elements, it’s the EPA that needs to go,
not our capacity to obtain these critical resources.
We need
to do what China does without hesitation: bar Chinese companies or
Chinese-controlled companies from participating in critical infrastructure like
5G.
We also
need to stop pretending China is a developing nation and demand it fund all
international organizations at America’s level. That it owns the WHO, yet pays
a fraction of what we do is ridiculous. In too many ways – including in the
idiotic climate hoax arena – China gets an edge by pretending it is not a First
World nation and getting breaks we do not.
We need
to clamp down on espionage, both strategic and economic. We need to openly tell
the truth: China targets the Chinese diaspora to use as spies. That’s not
racist. That’s a fact. But let’s not let the traitors who are not of Chinese
descent off the hook. There are too many people who will sell out their country
for a few renminbi. We need to get the FBI out of domestic politics and
massively focused on uprooting these foreign agents. All spies should be
subject to lengthy prison sentences. This nonsense about just a year or two in
jail needs to end. And we need to clear out academia of Chinese nationals, both
students and faculty. Why are we training our enemy? Plus, we must ruthlessly
expose just who China has bought in our universities, the corporations, and the
media.
China is
largely to blame for the Wuhan Flu pandemic, but the idea of suing it for
compensation is as useless as it is politically attractive. Here’s the way to
kill two bats with one stone: impose a penalty tariff on all Chinese goods to
create a huge pot of money to compensate the victims of ChiCom lies as well as
give our industries a chance to recover.
Most of
all, we need to get serious about this conflict, and it is a conflict. We tend
to see other people from our own perspective. We are reasonable, fair, and
just. But communists are none of those things. These red bastards exploit the
patriotism of the Chinese people – who have every right to seek prosperity and
freedom – to consolidate power and turn the spotlight off their own manifest
failures and tyrannies. We need to get woke, as the hep kids say, woke to the
fact that the Mao pals are bad people and we better understand that before one
morning we wake up with their boot on our neck forever.
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