That would depend on the reason for depopulation, if that is indeed what it is.

If those planning it were worried about resource constraints with raw materials, then the compliance factor wouldn’t matter. It would purely be a matter of quantities, with the qualification that it would be better to depopulate countries with currently higher GNP, as they use the most resources.

Your argument assumes that the reason for depopulation would be to consolidate political power. In which case compliance would be a factor,

It isn’t just that all cause mortality is rising.

The graph of Scottish mortality in the article shows mortality for the different age groups. There is clearly a rippling effect. With time the injections programme moved down through the age groups, and we can see that mortality rates turned up one after the other as the injections began in younger and younger age groups.

Thus demonstrating a clear temporal relationship between the injections and rising mortality – per age group.

Your argument does not explain this.

“If thousands of Americans had become infected with Covid by mid-2019, the total would have reached many tens of millions by the end of the year..”

Germany had 1.76 million ‘cases’ in 2020 with no impact on overall mortality.

” By that time, Wall Street could be a pile of smoldering rubble.”

Thanks for ending on a positive note.

Yes!

One senses a palpable feeling of deep frustration amongst the American – and other – China-bashers that this has been such a formidable and breathtaking response by the Government and People of China.

They twist and they spin every statement and every action, in order to score propaganda points.

They say that in Mandarin the character for ‘opportunity’ is the same as the character for ‘crisis’. I don’t know if that’s true, but it could well turn out that the one of the most lasting impressions of this crisis for the watching world will be how well China’s system dealt with it. Should this virus spread through Europe and America in the coming months, then we shall all come to a better appreciation of that.

Let’s see how the West copes with Covid-19.

China’s strengths – especially in this situation;

Strong political will of the central authority.

Ability of that authority to declare something to be an absolute priority and then direct resources to it.

Chinese culture values social responsibility higher than individual rights.

China is actually a nation. Genetically related oeople with a common story, a common identity, going back 5000 years. America, by contrast,, is a collection of individuals from all over the world who just happen to live in the same legal jurisdiction.

Coronavirus STILL has killed any Whites (not counting Iranians or Italians):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8031839/Coronavirus-kills-two-Italy.html

Another excellent step-by-step presentation of the questions the investigative mind would consider to solve a crime – and an extension of the usual “who dit it?” (Motive, Means, Opportunity, Connection). I would also add the MO (Modus Operandi) and precedent.

The answers to all those questions inevitably raise a pointed finger at the US criminal government and ruling elites – the only critters who can compete with the Zionists in malevolence and criminality.

Food Standards:

“Insect-filled chocolates, rat hair-infested noodles, and orange juice containing maggots are just some of the “horrors” UK consumers could be forced to accept if post-Brexit Britain signs a wide-ranging trade deal with the USA.

In the US, producers adhere to a “Defects Levels Handbook,” which sets out the maximum number of foreign bodies like maggots, insect fragments and mould that can be in food products before they are put on the market.

For example, US producers are allowed to include up to 30 insect fragments in a 100g jar of peanut butter; as well as 11 rodent hairs in a 25g container of paprika; or 3mg of mammalian excreta (typically rat or mouse excrement) per each pound of ginger.

In the EU there are no allowable limits for foreign bodies in food products.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-standards-brexit-uk-us-trade-deal-maggots-rat-hair-worms-insects-mould-products-a8575721.html

Thanks!

As for ‘Mr Turk’, I was referring to this- retweeted a couple of times in the past few weeks.

Tweeted on 11th June 2019 by a Turkish nationalist with connections to his country’s military:

Deşifre:

11.06.2019 #ABD Çin’e bir uçak dolusu biyolojik silah gönderdi. Yakında Çin’de salgın hastalıklar başlayabilir.

Şunu da unutmasınlar ki yeryüzünde bir Türk varsa, umut var demektir.

— Emir Yıldızdan🇹🇷 (@EmirYildizdan) June 11, 2019

Translation:

“The U.S. sent an aircraft of biological weapons to China. Epidemics may begin in China soon.

They should not forget that if there is a Turk on earth, there is hope.”

ReplyAgree/Disagree/Etc. This Commenter

“but why design a virus that kills old people and not children?”

It isn’t the killing as such that counts – it’s the massive economic cost that is important.

Thanks!

Regarding possible inflation of the figures:

I have played with that idea. My assessments of its probability go up and down. Obviously it’s a very unclear situation. At the moment it is not an argument that I would make

beautiful post

Great post.

I consider that an attack with biological weapons causing immense economic damage, but with plausible deniability was quite possibly the best remaining move on the geopolitical chessboard for Washington.

With all power trend lines on a downward slope, and abrupt end stops now visible on the most important of them (principally, financial), the time has come for a last minute Hail Mary pass.

The question is if the American pigeon has landed on the geo-political chessboard. If so, from landing the Eagle to landing the Pigeon, we’ve come round to the endgame at last.

I still think China wins this game, but at least Washington has delayed inevitable defeat, although perhaps increasing the ultimate severity of that defeat. It has still played geopolitically, although obviously not morally, the least bad move.

Fully agree. Your step-by-step reasoning has been the bedrock of my assumptions on several comments related to this topic, although expressed in a condensed package, to which I added the proof of precedence, that is, the political elites’ proneness and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction on innocent civilians.

Consider what is at stake here for those criminal elites: the end of US supremacy and concomitant loss of protection to the Chosen ones. This is an epoch-shattering event.

Compare with use of weapons of mass destruction during (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki) and since WWII (see Denk’s lists above). These crimes against humanity on a grand scale took place when the losing side was already defeated and there was no justification whatsoever other than revenge and evil designs. There were no vital interests at stake whatsoever, yet they did it on spurious and untenable reasons.

If they were capable of those monstrous crimes, getting rid of a few Chinks to spite them is small fry.

Any detective looking at it would go through the basic routine:

Motive, Yes
Means, Yes
Opportunity, Yes
Connection, Yes (a foe).

All a priori elements are there to point a finger at the main/sole suspect. The evidence may be missing yet for a prosecution in a putative court of law, but in a court of logicians that would be enough, barring the existence of a competing suspect, for a verdict of guilty.

I’m sure the Chinese virologists will come up eventually with sufficient proof that the novel coronavirus is a synthetic product and its origin. Whether it will become public is a moot point. But that will be enough for Dr Mahathir to convene the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission and indict the criminals.

“Modern China, with its massive and very dense population, and the massive movement of its peoples within its own borders and around the world, was a pandemic just waiting to happen.”
——————–

Yes, waiting to happen…..and its patience to wait any longer ran out just as that biggest migration was getting going for the New Year and right at a time of maximum geopolitical tension, and six months after this was tweeted:

Deşifre:

11.06.2019 #ABD Çin’e bir uçak dolusu biyolojik silah gönderdi. Yakında Çin’de salgın hastalıklar başlayabilir.

Şunu da unutmasınlar ki yeryüzünde bir Türk varsa, umut var demektir.

— Emir Yıldızdan🇹🇷 (@EmirYildizdan) June 11, 2019

Which translates as:

“Decipher: 11.06.2019 The U.S. sent an aircraft of biological weapons to China. Epidemics may begin in China soon.
They should not forget that if there is a Turk on earth, there is hope.”
——————————————

Those demanding proof will probably only be satisfied when a letter from the Director of the CIA, giving details of the operation, is published on the front page of the New York Times.

Mr Washington was the richest man in town and had the nicest and biggest house.

He had built his business in his younger years through hard work and inventiveness. In the 196os though, as his household grew and more children arrived, he found that his expenses were continually exceeding his income and he wondered what to do.

In 1971 he had an idea. Instead of paying for all of his purchases with money he decided to just write IOUs. His credit in town was so good with all of the neighbours and tradesmen, that pretty much all of them accepted Mr Washington’s IOUs, and even used them amongst each other to buy and sell, just as if they were real money.

This scheme was, as one might imagine, very pleasant indeed, and as the years went on Mr Washington preferred to work less and less, and took to writing more IOUs. His wife was constantly clamouring for new clothes and the kids were always screaming for new toys.
Eventually, the rumours that had been circulating for some time proved to be true and it emerged that Mr Washington had a machine in his basement for printing IOUs.

The years passed by and in 2001 a new neighbour – Mr Chang – arrived in town and moved into a small house just across the street from Mr Washington. He proved to be very industrious and after only a couple of years emerged as the businessman in town who was selling the most products to Mr Washington, who was very happy with this, not only because Mr Chang’s products were so cheap, but also because Mr Chang was apparently very happy to accept Mr Washington’s IOUs, produced from the machine in the basement.

Everybody seemed very pleased with this arrangement until one day in 2013. By this time Mr Chang had more of Mr Washington’s IOUs than anyone else in the town. In fact, he had almost more than he knew what to do with. Mr Chang announced that he would stop accumulating the IOUs and would be getting rid of them straight away in order to invest in his own business – something he called Belt and Road.

Mr Washington was worried. He noticed that others were following Mr Chang’s lead. He remonstrated with all his friends, cajoling and threatening, to try and stop them getting involved in Mr Chang’s projects. However, they generally ignored him. Everybody was impressed by Mr Chang’s workmanship. In 2014 people started noticing that Mr Chang’s house was bigger than Mr Washington’s. Traders doing business with Mr Chang were also pleased that Mr Chang, although he did sometimes drive a hard bargain, never tried to meddle in their lives, telling them how to bring up their children as Mr Washington did.

In 2016 Mr Washington started to argue in public wih Mr Chang. He shouted across the street demanding that Chang buy more supplies from him than the other tradesmen. He also claimed loudly that Chang had been stealing ideas for new machines from him. People were puzzled by this because they had never seen Mr Washington with the quantum computers and high-speed trains that Mr Chang had. It was noticed too that the Chang children were doing much better at school than the Washington kids – indeed in math they were four grades ahead.

The two men continued to shout at each other for months, but didn’t seem to be getting nearer to any kind of agreement. Things seemed to be getting desperate in the Washington household. Mrs Washington could now never afford the newest fashions and many of the kids would go barefoot in the street. The house gradually took on a down-at-heel look. Sometime in 2019 a couple more machines arrived for the basement so that more IOUs could be printed.

It was at this time that stories started appearing about Mr Chang in the newspapers – long owned by Mr Washingon. These claimed that Chang beat his wife every evening and that he kept some of his children in a concentration camp. These stories didn’t seem to have much effect however. Even Mr Washington’s oldest friend Mr Johnson decided to buy his new advanced telephone from Mr Chang.

Mr Washington had long had a gang of sidekicks who roughed up anyone who looked like he would refuse Washington’s IOUs, but Chang had grown too big and well-protected to be cowed by them. However, one of these sidekicks, a Mr Turk, went on Twitter in 2019 and blabbered that he had info that Mr Washington was really pissed off and was going to poison the well where the Chang family drew their water. A few months later in October a group of Mr Washington’s paramilitaries, that he employed, were spotted milling around near the Wuhan Well from where the Changs fetched their water every day, but nobody really thought anything of these events at the time.

Then it happened. It was a tradition in late Winter that members of the Chang family from all over the country came together to celebrate. They had all just arrived and they had all just raised their glasses of traditional spirit, to which they added water. Each Chang drained the glass in front of him in one movement. The whole thing could hardly have happened at a worse time.

It didn’t take long before the first Changs started getting ill – a few even died. At the present time the healthy members of the family are so busy taking care of the ill Changs that they hardly have any time for business. All the tradespeople are avoiding the Chang house out of superstitious fear and are trying to stop the Changs visiting their houses.

Mr Washington has publically offered his sympathy for the Changs, but everyone in town has remarked on his smirk. His newspapers are full of commentary alleging lack of hygiene in the Chang household. Some people close to Mr Washington are also spreading rumours that Mr Chang has deliberately poisoned his relatives.

These are conclusions.
I’ve been reading about Wuhan 400 since mid-january. I wanted to find out what, where, and why. I saw a ton of evidence that indicated that the West has been developing bio-weapons and using them since the Korean War.
China has been hit with a variety of virii targeting food stocks-pigs and chickens- and humans-SARS, HxNy and now Wuhan.
I don’t have to do your homework. I did mine and I drew conclusions.
Wuhan 400 is a bio-weapon and it was released.
Read my other comments.
Can I prove it. No. Do I have to? No, I don’t. We all draw inferences every day based on the patterns we see around us. We factor a variety of pieces together to solve the puzzle.
I noticed a pattern. China, the only economic competitor of the U.S., that is openly working towards returning the world to a trade system that existed for a really long time (the Eurasian Silk Road) is under attack.
The average Chinamen will not buy that their government did this to them. I don’t. Why should I?
They may run a dictatorship but they aren’t morons.

The Western elites are staring into an abyss. Imagine you are them. They managed to fundamentally shift the natural trade route that existed across Eurasia. They were at the far end from the natural riches of India. Against the odds, they rerouted that world trade system to their advantage.

Now they are faced with irrelevance. The Chinese inspired OBOR would reverse 500 years of hard work. I see no reason to believe they would sit back and allow nature to take its course.
China has seen over a decade of consistent viral attacks; both human and animal virii. They have had their animal and human population under threat.
The idea that policy is implemented by government is laughable. Elites USE government; they act THROUGH government by using agents. Pomparse and Esper were the end line in a short chain that saw the number 2 in Iran assassinated. That set the tone for this whole decade.
Act 2: Wuhan flu.
Get ready for a very painful decade.

Tweeted on 11th June 2019 by a Turkish nationalist with connections to his country’s military:

Deşifre:

11.06.2019 #ABD Çin’e bir uçak dolusu biyolojik silah gönderdi. Yakında Çin’de salgın hastalıklar başlayabilir.

Şunu da unutmasınlar ki yeryüzünde bir Türk varsa, umut var demektir.

— Emir Yıldızdan🇹🇷 (@EmirYildizdan) June 11, 2019

Translation:

“The U.S. sent an aircraft of biological weapons to China. Epidemics may begin in China soon.

They should not forget that if there is a Turk on earth, there is hope.”

Absolutely superb article!

Thank you ‘Metallicman’, very well laid out.

Thanks to Ron Unz too for publishing.

The US and China have different statistical methods regarding the compilation of data for the incidence of normal flu.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177725.shtml

Snippet:

“Analysts noted the US mortality rate looks much higher than China’s because of the two countries’ different statistical methods. The response came after some net users questioned whether the high death rate shows the ineffective control of flu in the US and how different countries should cooperate effectively to curb the new coronavirus-related disease.

The flu epidemic in the US eased during the week of January 5-11 but remains active, with an estimated 13-18 million cases of flu illnesses documented since the start of the season, a latest report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

The agency also estimates between 6,600 and 17,000 deaths related to influenza since October 1, 2019.

Official Chinese data of flu-caused deaths is much lower, with Chinese CDC data showing that in 2018, there were more than 700,000 cases and 144 deaths.

But there was an epidemic in early 2019. In January 2019, the number of flu cases in the Chinese mainland reached 608,511, with 143 deaths. In the first five months of 2019 alone, the number of reported cases of influenza reached 1.77 million, exceeding the total of the past four years.

Chinese netizens questioned why the flu death rate in China is much lower than that in the US given the overall coverage of flu vaccines in China is less than 2 percent, far lower than the rate of developed countries, including the US. Some doubted the effectiveness of the vaccines.

“The US flu mortality rate includes cases where flu causes other illnesses to worsen and lead to death, while China only counts people who die directly from flu,” an observer who prefers to be anonymous told the Global Times.”

Three Points:

1. Countries often vary enormously on how the cause of death is classified.

2. Between 6600 and 17000 flu deaths in the US since October 1st 2019 – there’s some perspective for you.

3. These discrepancies in how countries classify flu deaths are more than big enough for this outbreak to hide in.

The fake hysterical non-pandemic continues. Still only 2 dead outside China.

All of those alleged to have died from the virus are claimed to have had pneumonia as far as I can ascertain. Let’s put this into the context of normal Chinese pneumonia statistics.

In a study from 2010:

“Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in adults and children in China [4]. In urban areas, pneumonia is the fourth leading cause of death, and in rural areas pneumonia is the leading cause of death [5], [6]. A recent article in the Chinese literature estimated that each year in China there are 2.5 million patients with pneumonia and that 125,000 (5%) of these patients die of pneumonia-related illness [5”

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011721

So the 1100 apparent fatal cases from this outbreak would represent less than 1% of the total pneumonia deaths for China in a typical year.

Here’s your billionaire – oh so credible

“Guo Wengui (Chinese: 郭文贵; born 10 May 1970 (self claim)[2] or 5 October 1968[3]), also known under the names Guo Wen Gui, Guo Haoyun (Chinese: 郭浩云), and Miles Kwok,[4] is a Chinese billionaire businessman who later became a political activist and controls Beijing Zenith Holdings (via proxy people Li Lin and Jiang Yuehua),[5] and other assets.[6][7] At the peak of his career, he was 73rd among the richest in China. After falling out with members of the Communist Party leadership, Guo was accused of corruption and other misdeeds and forced to flee China. He fled to the United States in late 2014[8] after learning he was going to be arrested after allegations against him including bribing, kidnapping, money laundering, fraud and rape,[9] and is subsequently subject to an Interpol Red Notice.[better source needed][1][10]

Despite Guo’s claims of being a whistle-blower, his statements were unable to be verified by newspapers such as The New York Times.[”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui

You’ll have to do better than that.

Utter nonsense?

HK and Macao are vitually part of China and have a total of 39 infected, with 1 dead, although they have received millions of Chinese visitors in the last 2 or 3 months. If so many people in China were infected, then the figures in HK and Macao would be higher.

Note – HK and Macao figures are not issued by the Chinese authorities.

Ignore Falung Gong propaganda.

This purported pandemic grows more absurd by the day.

A grand total of two people have now died outside China – allegedly from n-Cov. In the normal course of events they would not have been noticed.

It is interesting to compare the totals of infected in China at provincial level with HK and Macao.

In HK and Macao – both receiving millions of Chinese visitors in the last 3 months, we have total of 39 infected, while neighbouring Guangdong province has roughly 1100.

If this outbreak is all it’s cracked up to be, then HK and Macao should have more cases.

Or, are the Chinese exaggerating the number of infected cases they have?

Why should they do that?

What if they want to go on what effectively is a ‘manufacturing strike’ – staying at home with the flue. They need a cover story in order to declare force majeure on dollar debt.

Why would they want to do that?

In order to force some kind of reset of the dollar-dominated international financial and monetary system.

In any case – China is the motor of the world economy, and that motor has basically stopped.

The most boring ‘pandemic’ in history grinds on.

A brilliant essay by Edward Curtin, but I want to bring a dose of optimism to the table.

Doll Houses don’t come free. They have to be paid for – and they are expensive.

Those who care to look will find the doom of the doll house written in the worsening finances of the US government – and the bankruptcy of its European and Japanese vassals.

Taxes and borrowing aren’t enough any more- Money is being created out of nothing to directly finance the US budget deficit; quantitative easing etc. Look at the goings on in the repo market since September.

Frank Zappa (himself with links to the military-industrial complex), said this about the Doll House:

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

That’s where we are now as America slips into fascism. If you look at increasing immiseration of the broad mass of people in the US – and in its vassal states,then it is clear that the illusion is becoming increasingly expensive.

This whole ‘coronavirus episode’ has resulted in an orgy of western sinophobia, with every single event and action twisted and spun to score propaganda points against China.

If Xi Jinping were on a boat on a lake and his hat blew off into the water, then if he retrieved it by walking acroos the water, the headlines in western media would read:

‘Xi Can’t Swim’

I think the videos coming out of China speak for themselves. Not so much the people collapsing in the streets or body bags in hospitals. Those could be staged anti Xi propaganda or just the normal events one could find in New York or LA if you looked hard enough. What can’t be staged is the official reaction. Cops and soldiers patrolling the street in full protective gear extracting people from their homes and taking them away. Sealing apartment towers. Publicly fumigating the streets.

This is the most extreme and serious actions taken by any organized society in my lifetime. No government would be doing this if there was any alternative. The political and economic consequences are simply too great. In a way we are fortunate this broke out in China in the same way we were lucky Fukushima was in Japan. However you may feel about the Chinese regime ( and its attempt to conceal the outbreak) China is doing what it can to bring it under control and I have to hope they succeed no matter the human cost to the afflicted

Only if you find Western media credible–about anything (as 6% of Americans do) and believe their nonsense about China. Here’s the scoop:

“Li Wenliang, a low-level physician at a hospital in Wuhan, learned at the end of that initial two weeks that some patients had been hospitalised with a coronavirus infection, impetuously presumed that virus to be SARS, then posted announcements on Chinese social media that SARS had returned to China with people in Wuhan already hospitalised.

“No one in China has forgotten SARS, these messages sparking alarm and panic, especially since they were forwarded in volume to many other recipients. Li was picked up and questioned by the police, reprimanded, and released after an hour. This was when the Western media began their circus.

“First, it is a crime in China to fabricate and spread rumors that disrupt the social order, a portion of Chinese culture that Westerners either cannot understand or refuse to accept. Li stated “I only wanted to remind my university classmates to be careful”, but when his startling messages went viral, he then admitted, “When I saw them circulating online, I realised that it was out of my control and I would probably be punished.” Hardly a surprise.

If Li’s concern were for a few friends he would have called them or sent private messages. Li is not a child, and he was fully aware of the virality of online posts as well as the protocols for dealing with potential epidemics. To have posted his claims openly on social media could obtain only one possible result – in fact the result it did obtain, which was to alarm and panic countless thousands of citizens.

Li was not reprimanded for “telling the truth” or for being a “whistleblower”, as CNN, CBS and the BBC tell us.

“Rather, he was reprimanded for reckless public behavior and for presuming authority he did not possess. No one appointed him the spokesman for either the national health authorities or the hospital. Li had no authority to make such premature public announcements, and he would know very well the result of a WeChat post with such content. From the same CNN article, Li wrote, “I was wondering why (the government’s) official notices were still saying there was no human-to-human transmission, and there were no healthcare workers infected.”

The medical authorities released that information as soon as it was verified and public notification became necessary, but Li appears determined to denigrate them with backhanded insinuations of lying to the public.” –From Larry Romanoff’s, ‘China’s Coronavirus – How the Western Media Spin the News’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-how-western-media-spin-news/5702888

That 1% is what one can tweak. Don’t be misled by that 99% thing.

Humans and chimpanzees are 96% the same.

Different ethnic groups are well over 99% ‘the same’, but the differences are significant.

I don’t accept that argument.

If you look at the numbers of infected in Hong Kong and Macao, which are basically in China and visited by massive numbers of Chinese tourists and businessmen, then we see a total of 34 people infected. If those higher figures you mentioned were true, then we would be seeing many more cases in HK and Macao.

Remember these two territories are separately administered and compile their own figures.

I am pretty sure that the numbers are higher than the official figures, but probably not by too much.

There’s a propaganda war going on.

That would mean it’s not that effective as a biological agent.

Perhaps not as a killer, but that isn’t necessarily the goal.

If it is a “designer virus”, it’s been designed to be damn effective as an economic and social disruptor.
China’s effectively been shut down for a couple of weeks, and it’ll stay shut down for at least a week longer. That’s a lot of disruption.

Moreover, China and the Chinese people have effectively been “isolated” from the RoW. Flights are being cancelled, notably with the Five Eyes in the lead, and Chinese aren’t welcome anymore. This is a stated US geo-strategic goal.

One doesn’t have to kill 100,000s to do it. Just make sure it’s very contagious, and then fire up the Mighty Wurlitzer to put The Big Fear into everyone. Presto. China’s isolated.

Wrong!

The aim of a bioweapon might be to cause the maximum economic damage, in which case it has already done pretty well.

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

– Oscar Wilde

The mask of Internet anonymity permits you to reveal yourself.

Crossposting from my last comment on Godfree Roberts’ article:

One more thought on why westerners are so shocked by the actions of the Chinese state in imposing quarantines and other measures we have seen.

Because we in the West are so used to incompetent, ineffective and half-hearted government, that it does indeed shock us to a see a decisive, determined and well-funded government acting with such swiftness in the public interest.

One more thought on why westerners are so shocked by the actions of the Chinese state in imposing quarantines and other measures we have seen.

Because we in the West are so used to incompetent, ineffective and half-hearted government, that it does indeed shock us to a see a decisive, determined and well-funded government acting with such swiftness in the public interest.

Do you agree that the US is challenged, or considers itself to be challenged, geopolitically by China?

Do you agree that global power is a zerosum game – ie the more power China has the less power the US has?

Do you agree that the US is technically capable of causing such an outbreak as we currently see?

Do you agree that this outbreak tends to weaken China economically, and therefore geopolitically – and therefore tends to strengthen the position of the US compared to China?

Do you agree that elites in the US, China or any other country tend to act amorally to maximize their own power.?

If you agree with all of the above, then why, given that the US surely has the motive, the means and the opportunity to have committed this attack, would it not do so?

If this outbreak had occurred in the US, it is very likely that nobody would have noticed it.

Tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance. Tens of millions more have such high deductibles that they just don’t have the cash to pay medical bills.

For these people, it would take something really big to get them to the doctor and flu symptoms just don’t cut it. Many of the deaths would have been among the homeless and other marginalized groups, and thus essentially invisible,

Sure, money in its role as currency is a means to facilitate trade. The premier currency by far in our modern age has been the USD, which has also been used by non-US countries as a reserve. Since it is used as a reserve (not just as a means of payment) it has allowed the US an artificially high standard of living, at the cost of a gradual loss of manufacturing jobs. It also allows the US givernment to run much higher deficits than would otherwise be the case.

China is at the forefront of those countries gradually distancing themselves from this arrangement. The accumulation of gold by the Silk Road countries is common knowledge. China’s decision to stop accumulating the debt of the US givernment in 2013 freed up that capital for investment in Belt and Road Projects.

This is the threat which is undermining the power of the US government and its associated oligarchs. I think we can all agree that when entities – whether governments, individuals or others – recognize threats to their power, they tend to try and do something about them.

I would add to that the increasingly compelling evidence – see my post no. 80 – that East Asians are particularly susceptible to this virus and its effects.

Stop using the word ‘money’. There is ‘currency’ and there is ‘wealth’.

Currency (means of exchange) cannot be a store of wealth over long periods because debt is denominated in currency – and debtors always want easy money. See present low and negative interest rates. Savers on the other hand want hard money which holds value. There is thus a conflict of interest between savers and debtors, meaning that it is unwise to save in the means of exchange.

the Bo Xilai incident a few years back showed that there are indeed different factions jostling for power at the top of the party and military hierarchies. Not really. In 1985 Bo Xilai, son of a Revolutionary Immortal and Xi Jinping’s schoolmate, ignored his father’s pleas to stay out of politics, “You know nothing of the sufferings of ordinary people and just want to capitalize on my name.” Xilai cultivated a charismatic image, was named one of Time’s Most Influential People, rose rapidly to provincial governor and publicly campaigned for a cabinet position. But, as conservative scholar Cheng Li[1] said at the time, “Nobody really trusts him. A lot of people are scared of him, including several princelings who are supposed to be his power base.” Michael Wines[2] wrote that, though he possessed prodigious charisma and deep intelligence, “He possessed a studied indifference to the wrecked lives that littered his path to power…Mr. Bo’s ruthlessness stood out.” With the help of Justice Minister Zhou Yongkang, Bo had even wiretapped President Hu.

Despite internal resistance, Vice Premier Wu Yi, the nation’s highest woman official, demanded an open investigation and a 2012 trial revealed that Bo owned expensive properties around the world and that his wife had murdered a British agent. They were jailed for life and joined a long line of disgraced elites like the grandson of China’s Head of State and founder of the Red Army, Zhu De, who was executed for rape, and Yan Jianhong, wife of Guizhou’s powerful Party Secretary, who was executed for corruption.

Bo, a high-functioning sociopath, was a Western darling but was never a candidate for national leadership.

China remains a totalitarian country with strict control of any anti-government statement, and universal electronic surveillance and censorship of which all Chinese are keenly aware. China is far less totalitarian than the US. Where else but in an totalitarian country does the leader have the sole power to:
* Declare war. Frequently.
* Issue 300,000 national security letters (administrative subpoenas with gag orders that enjoin recipients from ever divulging they’ve been served);
* Control information at all times under his National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.
* Torture, kidnap and kill anyone, anywhere, at will.
* Secretly ban 50,000 citizens from flying–and refusing to explain why.
* Imprison 2,000,000 citizens without trial.
* Execute 1,000 citizens each year prior to arrest.
* Kill 1,000 foreign civilians every day since 1951
* Massacre its own men, women and children for their beliefs
* Assassinate its own citizens abroad, for their beliefs.
* What leader saw his country’s military dropping 26,171 bombs in one year?

Many Chinese over, say 40 will equate economic improvements with the conclusion that their government “works for everyone’s benefit.” In a multivariate regression analysis when other factors such as age, education, gender, income, religiosity, and geographic location are taken into consideration, government responsiveness played the single most significant role in promoting regime support in China. Existing studies typically attribute the high level of government support to three things: economic growth, media control, and cultural values. According to these studies, the Chinese are happy with their government because (1) their economic conditions have improved during China’s period of rapid growth; (2) they are brainwashed by the government-controlled media, which always presents a rosy picture of the country; and (3) the Confucian cultural values make people respect political hierarchy and avoid challenging authority.

Yet when these three factors are compared with government responsiveness in the same regression model, the latter continues to show the strongest impact in promoting regime support. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/surprise-authoritarian-resilience-china/

ordinary Chinese are well aware of the breathtaking corruption perpetrated by the party elite at all levels. How do ordinary Chinese become aware of this breathtaking corruption? Where do they find the evidence? Next year, every Chinese will own a home and have a job, plenty of food, education, safe streets, health insurance, a pensions, and old age care.

By then, 300,000,000 urban Chinese will have more net worth and disposable income than the average American, their mothers and infants will be less likely to die in childbirth, their children will graduate from high school three years ahead of American kids and live longer, healthier lives and there will be more drug addicts, suicides and executions, more homeless, poor, hungry and imprisoned people in America than in China.

Does that look like a country run by breathtakingly corrupt people?

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[1] Profile: Bo Xilai. September, 2013. BBC
[2] In Rise and Fall of China’s Bo Xilai, an Arc of Ruthlessness. By MICHAEL WINES. MAY 6, 2012. NYT

The question of whether or not East Asians are more susceptible than others to the effects of this Virus, hinges on the number of ACE2 receptor cells in the lungs, to which nCov attaches itself.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1

Well – look at this table:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ACE-II-genotype-frequency-in-different-populations-countries_tbl2_5642354

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1222635075046649856

There we have it folks.

Anyone interested in China’s massive accumulation of gold (state and private sector) over the last few years should look at Koos Jansen’s work:

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/koos-jansen/

Those who’ve got the gold make the rules.

The two main functions of money are:

1. Store of wealth
2. Means of exchange.

China and Russia (and others) have the first function in mind. As the present dollar-centred monetary system dies , they are relying on gold to transfer value to the new paradigm. Gold will never be ameans of exchange again as it was under the Gold Standard.

If China had continued to accumulate US debt, as it did from 2001 to 2013, then it would not be coming under such sustained attack. As it is, China has abandoned support for the present dollar-centric system. On a net basis it now refuses to save the IOUs of the United States.

2013 – China stops accumulating US treasuries, announces Belt and Road
2014 – China surpasses US in size of exonomy (purchasing power parity)

Negligible domestic savings and declining foreign demand mean that the Fed is now monetizing US debt. We are in the endgame. This attack on China, if that is what it is, is a sign of that and a sign of desperation. Indeed, it could serve to accelerate events.

Debtors can get rather frustrated when their creditors refuse to extend credit any further.

Corona Virus in China predicted 10 years ago:

Corona Virus in China predicted 10 years ago:

It wouldn’t be retaliation, simply using savings in an emergency.

Surely understandable given the circumstances.

Approximately 0,1%

Is that near enough for you or shall I add a couple of decimal places?

The Chinese have been set up Charlie.

Read this from Whitney Webb and then come back and tell us what you think:

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76139/bats-gene-editing-and-bioweapons-recent-darpa-experiments-raise-concerns-amid-coronavirus.html

I can’t summarise – it’s best to read it all.

Yeah – they were really spreading freedom and respect for human rights amongst the Native Americans.

India is less likely to have problems because Coronavirus will have a tough time muscling all the other viruses out of the way so it can get at the people. India’s a tough neighborhood for viruses because there’s so much competition.

Connecting this issue to the situation unfolding in China.

China now faces a national emergency, with many people unable to work and massive economic damage. To help deal with this, it would appear logical for them now to gradually liquidate all of their 1.1 trillion dollars’ worth ofUS Treasury bonds over the next couple of months.

Quite likely they are Germans.

However, whereas Chinese are always Chinese, Germans aren’t always Germans.

In Germany, the word ‘German’ refers to citizenship not ethnicity.

Additionally, they are not ‘German cases’, but ‘cases registered in Germany’.

Of course – Americans had better hope this disease only minimally infects non-Asians.

Compared to the comprehensive response adopted by the Chinese state, how would it go down in the US?

Let’s start with the tens of millions of people with no health insurance.

Then consider tens of millions more without the cash they would need to pay the deductible amount before the insurance kicks in.

All meaning many people postponing hospital or doctor’s visits to the very last minute for the lack of the financial wherewithal.

It would appear that not only are viruses race-specific and to be expected to be race-specific, but that they have evolved the ability to sense patterns of human migration which give them the greatest chance to spread. Thus, this current corona virus seems to have developed the ability to sense when the Chinese New Year (with the associated huge movement of people) was about to take place, exploding just at the right time, and giving it the maximum opportunity to replicate and spread.

Yeah – and the Chinese government shuts half of the country down because of it, with all of the economic consequenes that that holds.

HIV genes apparently found in the Coronavirus ‘unexpectedly’

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223308656101462016

Exactly!

The whole reason for US hostility to China is that China is winning the peace. If you’re winning the peace, you don’t need to start war. China – and Russia – are rolling with the punches. A rope-a-dope strategy if you will.

2013 – China stops accumulating US Treasuries on a net basis and accelerates purchases of gold.

2014 – Chinese economy becomes bigger than that of the US on Purchasing Power Parity basis

The Fed is now massively monetizing US debt, because China and others stopped buying.That can’t go on for ever.

Godfree Roberts, thank you for this excellent article, indeed all your writing.

Given the geopolitical context of the last few years, I am 90% convinced that a US bioweapon has been used against China.

This molecular biologist makes the case that the virus is, with overwhelming probability, bioengineered.

The conjecture here is that Asian males are particularly susceptible.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1

Putting those two together – bioengineered for Asian males.

Indeed, how many Caucasian or African or Arab etc victims have we seen so far? Outside China this thing just isn’t taking off – a mere dribble of cases, mostly Chinese tourists or businesspeople.

We wait and watch.

Two more things:

Even the alternative media isn’t touching this.

Reading comments on a wide variety of platforms, I have been struck by the sheer bile and hatred of many westerners for China and the Chinese. Presumably out of frustration that their own failing societies are being overtaken.