From: intraphase@gmail.com

Foreign Policy, National Security, Opinion
Coronavirus: The Chernobyl Of Totalitarian China
by Ratko Knezevic April 18, 2020
0Shares

There are two possible scenarios for the emergence of the Wuhan virus. Neither of them conforms to the “official” Chinese party line and both have their pros and cons.

The real question is not whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was responsible for the present, disastrous pandemic. That is a settled fact for all objective analysts.

Rather, what remains to be established is whether the CCP has simply responded incompetently to an accidental outbreak of a highly contagious coronavirus and,
then, has tried to cover-up and deflect attention from its malfeasance?

Or, alternatively, is the CCP in the process of pulling off one of the most successful intelligence-military actions ever performed in history?

To assess these two possibilities, it is necessary to review key events in the timeline that has unfolded since the pandemic began in Wuhan, China in mid- or late-November last year. Let’s first look at the chronology of what ensued and the role played
by the CCP throughout.
An Illuminating Timeline

In mid-December last year, Dr. Ai Fen, the director of the Emergency Department
at Wuhan Central Hospital, was the first person to speak to her colleagues about the emergence of a strange new disease.

Eight of her colleagues, including eye doctor Dr. Li Wenliang, subsequently spoke about it on a Chinese social network -WeChat – which combines features of WhatsApp and Facebook.

Dr. Ai has since disappeared. Before that happened, though, in an article entitled “She Who Whistled” posted by Renwu Magazine, the doctor described the Chinese authorities’ efforts to silence her. Like its author, the article
has now disappeared,
no longer accessible on the magazine’s website.

Dr. Li’s eight colleagues were all arrested on December 31, 2019 for spreading “fake news.” On New Year’s Day, Dr. Li was forced to sign a statement in the Wuhan Police Prefecture saying that he had falsified information and disrupted law and
order. On February 7, 2020, he died – ostensibly from complications of the Chinese virus. The fate of his colleagues remains unknown to this day.

On January 4, 2020, Dr. Ho Pak Leung, head of the Infections Division at the University of Hong Kong, stated that it was very likely that this virus was being transmitted from person to person. Before then, and for weeks after, however, the Wuhan Health
Office declared – and Chinese health authorities confirmed – that their preliminary studies had provided no evidence of the virus being prone to human transmission.

On January 6th, the United States requested permission from China for an expert
group to visit the focal point in Wuhan for a fact-finding mission. That request was rejected.

On January 17-18, the Wuhan authorities allowed for collective celebration in connection with the Lunar New Year, resulting in more than one hundred thousand
people converging on the city’s streets, for among other things, a mass pot-luck dinner
attended by 40,000 families.

On January 20th, China confirmed that it had 100 cases of COVID-19.

On January 22nd, the World Health Organization’s Director-General, a Marxist former Ethiopian Foreign Minister named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – a man who lacks any medical qualifications and only achieved his present post thanks to China’s fierce
lobbying – declared that China had done everything possible to halt the spread of the virus. He thanked the Chinese Minister of Health for the excellent cooperation. And he unctuously commended CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li
Keqiang for their “leadership and timely intervention.”

On January 23rd, just nine days after the WHO announced that the Chinese virus cannot be transmitted from person to person, and just five days after the big celebration in Wuhan, the Chinese central authorities declared a quarantine in Wuhan.

It was already too late. Hundreds of thousands had been in the streets of Wuhan. Millions were visiting or had left Wuhan during the Chinese New Year holidays. And large numbers of PRC nationals had traveled from Wuhan to other countries, carrying the
virus with them – many without exhibiting symptoms of the disease.

It was not until January the 29th that China allowed an expert WHO group to visit Wuhan.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party propagandists were touting Xi Jinping’s character as well as his crisis management skills. On February 4th,
however, two well-known Chinese opposition figures issued fierce attacks against Xi and the CCP.

The first was published by Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, on the WeChat social network. It was entitled “Fighting the Epidemic: China Defeats COVID-19 in 2020” and appeared in Chinese, English, French, Spanish,
Russian and Arabic. Prof. Xu declared:

This epidemic has shown how rotten the core of power and governance in the Chinese Communist Party is, how fragile, empty, and shaky the foundations of these buildings are….The militant ideology of this party stinks of gunpowder and it’s becoming
even stronger…We have to wonder why this great country, which was once destroyed by the cult of personality, has no resistance to creating a new one. This time, the price of that new complacency will be paid by the whole nation.

This crisis, according to the distinguished professor, is just one in a series of political failures, including the management of the trade war with the USA and the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, which highlight the shortcomings of an
authoritarian system that increasingly concentrates power in the hands of one individual: Xi Jinping.

Prof. Xu concluded that “Xi has only one goal and one concern: to preserve the Communist Party in China and to preserve himself as its supreme leader. “

On the same day as the Xu article appeared, another forceful and sarcastic denunciation of the CCP was posted on Chinese social networks. It was authored by Dr. Xu Zhiyong, a Beijing University lecturer and human rights champion who spent four years in
prison for anti-CCP activism. Dr. Xu demanded that Xi Jinping pay for his policy of taking the wrong steps and resign. He bravely wrote that, because everything Xi tries “while talking about reform and the opening up of China is, in fact, the smoke-
screen behind which …the revival of the corpse of Marxism-Leninism lies.”

In the best manner of this sort of ideological teaching, the author continues: ‘’Xi sees enemies everywhere, and he grumbles about maintaining stability. In this name, and under that slogan, the disgraced doctors at Wuhan who spoke out about
coronavirus were arrested.”

“Maintaining stability,” or in Chinese “wei wen,” is the justification for a well-established system that the Communist Party operates. It is aimed at
keeping the CCP in power and exercising total control over society. It includes
a pervasive
network comprised of the military, the police, authorities in provinces and cities, party committees at all levels – from local communities, municipalities, cities, businesses, special “internet police” and, of course, secret police employing a
disproportionately large number of people across China.

Both Professor Xu and Dr. Xu were taken into custody and no one knows their whereabouts or status – except the Chinese Communist Party.
The Provenance of the CCP Virus

In the face of such blowback, the question recurs: Was the sequence of events one in which the Wuhan virus burst forth and then was seized upon by the CCP to
deflect the Chinese people’s attention, and that of the rest of the world, from the many, real
problems that China had pre-pandemic? It certainly had the effect of ending the
protracted unrest in Hong Kong.

Or has this whole pandemic, the virus that precipitated it and the CCP-style “lock-down” as the only possible means of fighting it been sold as part of a calculated, and highly successful, strategic operation to advantage the Chinese regime at the
expense of both the population of China and that of the rest of the world? Put
differently: Could it be that this is the most successful intelligence-military
operation conducted in the history of warfare since the Trojan Horse?
Evidence emerging?

Key, instructive pieces of evidence are popping up day after day in the international media concerning the origin of this virus.

For example, a program that originally aired on Italian state-owned TV back in November 2015 recently resurfaced. In crystal-clear terms, it described a virus
that can be harmful to humans. It warned the audience that, “Chinese scientists are creating
a supervirus, a hybrid of viruses carried by different types of bats that will attack and destroy epithel[ial tissue] of human lungs.” The report continued,
“It is only an experiment, so far. But many other scientists around the world
are concerned.
And U.S. funding for this project has been halted because of its human health danger.’’

In recent days, Britain’s most widely circulated tabloid, The Daily Mail, reported that the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s staff were most likely to have contracted the virus in a lab after isolating the virus from the blood of bats in the caves of
the Yunnan province. The lab is said to have conducted various experiments on such samples from 2011 to at least 2017.

Despite the CCP’s party line that the virus emanated from the so-called “wet market” in Wuhan, Cao Bin, one of the doctors at Wuhan Hospital, pointed out that the first thirteen patients out of the 41 coronavirus patients
he examined had “no
contact with the Wuhan market”.
The impact of the coronavirus.

A virus that has not only infected more than one million people worldwide, and will infect even more in the months ahead, has also become an incredible socio-political change agent – which sheds further light on the pregnant questions above.

Among the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the effective suspension until further notice of democratic capitalism and the free market as
we know them in country after country around the world. These foundations of our economy and
civilization were not overthrown by either Marx or Lenin or Stalin. But they have been rocked by the Chinese Communist leadership with a single – at best,
mismanaged – virus. That virus, it seems increasingly clear was researched and incubated, if
not actually engineered, by Chinese scientists associated with a bio level 4 facility on a military installation in Wuhan.

So, did China want to unleash this deadly disease, knowing that its socialist economic model will inevitably lose the battle with democratic capitalism in the long run? Were they determined to show the world how superior their model is?

Even if Xi and his clique did not purposefully release this disease, did they cunningly exploit the virus’s outbreak to change the narrative of his inability to deal with Hong Kong and Taiwan and his subordination in negotiations with Trump?

Is it material to the answer to that question that a country of up to a billion-and-a-half people has only had Wuhan subjected to a protracted and comprehensive quarantine, while huge megacities like Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing (the largest urban
settlement on earth, with a population of over 36 million) haven’t been?

And most importantly, did the same Xi clique authorize the exploration of this virus as a weapon of bioterrorism?

The characteristics of this virus are enough to invite speculation that COVID-19 has something to do with biowarfare. For example:

You can be contagious with it for up to fourteen days before the disease’s symptoms manifest themselves. You can, therefore, unknowingly spread it to many other people.

It is passed on by the use of paper, including banknotes.

It can remain on plastic and metal, including coins, for days.

It has been shown to be strategically highly effective in traumatizing the societies and devastating the economies of even such powerful countries as the United States, whose cities and states have been paralyzed for weeks. And the U.S. military has
been substantially sidelined in the Pacific with two powerful aircraft carriers, worth billions of dollars apiece, out of action due to large numbers among their crews falling ill with COVID-19. All without firing a shot.

Scenarios gaming outbreaks of viruses with such characteristics are the subject
of Western military planning and corporate and academic exercises. In fact, one
modeling a coronavirus pandemic known as “Event 201” was held in New York City with the
participation of, among others, representatives of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control.

The CCP and Biological Warfare

There is reason to believe that the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have, at a minimum, seriously studied such scenarios, too.

Back in 1998, two senior PLA colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, wrote an ambitious treatise on how China could wage asymmetric warfare against the United States long before it was powerful enough to use old-fashioned kinetic means. It was entitled
in Chinese, “Our Master Plan for the Destruction of America.” At the time, the leadership of China viewed the text as a creative product of two up-and-coming Army officers. (Both subsequently were promoted and served as in senior positions as general
officers).

Then, in 1999, the U.S. Air Force accidentally bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, a diplomatic facility the Serbian president, Sloban Milosevic, was using to hide and protect his General Staff. Within days, the Political Bureau of the CCP
approved the two colonels’ comprehensive prescription for waging non-kinetic war against the United States as the official strategy of the PRC military – a policy that seems to remain in place to this day.

Two passages from the colonels’ then-secret tract are relevant for the present purpose:

The new concept of armaments will equally astound civilians and soldiers by the
fact that common things that are familiar to them from everyday life can also become weapons of war. We believe that one morning, they will wake up with the surprise of a few
common things (such as the “common flu,” [a term often used by Chinese media sources to refer to coronavirus]) having offensive features and a deadly reach.


[continued in next message]

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)