Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus engineered in a lab? Was it the result of a freak accident of zoonosis? Was it released deliberately as a bio-warfare agent? Did it accidentally leak, probably in an infected lab worker?
Thanks to the Chinese Communist Party’s non-stop litany of lies and cover-ups, we’ll probably never know. But it’s also thanks to the CCP’s ingrained culture of lies and secrecy that the virus was able to wreak such havoc in the world. It’s almost certain that, had Beijing told the truth from the beginning, almost all of the last two years would have been averted.
For that reason alone, China must pay.
But only one politician dares say so.
US tariffs on Chinese goods should be increased “very substantially” as reparation payments for the chaos unleashed by Covid-19, according to Donald Trump.
Trump is in the middle of another of his signature rounds of public rallies, speaking to tens of thousands of followers in Dallas. Trump is yet to formally announce a second presidential run in 2024, but his speaking tour has all the hallmarks of a political stump speech.
As Trump correctly points out, China has spent years on an all-out arms race — including biological weapons. Leaked CCP biological weapons research proposals bear an uncanny similarity to exactly what has happened since 2020.
As I’ve repeatedly written: whether or not China actually engineered and deliberately released the virus… how would things have turned out any different?
China, [Trump] said, owed “at least $US60 trillion” to the world in reparations “and they know we’re going to have to do something like increasing very substantially the tariffs, because we have to wean ourselves off of China”.
Anyone inclined to scoff at Trump as a blowhard misses the point: when Trump blows hard, other leaders listen.
Turning to his squabble with NATO, Mr Trump claimed that he had used “business language” to tell leaders of the military alliance that they were “delinquent” on their defence payments, reiterating that he told them the US would not come to their assistance in the event of a defence crisis unless they spent more – which they then did.
At the same time, Trump’s almost cartoonish threat to unleash “fire and fury” should North Korea continue its threats to the United State, brought Kim Jong-un scurrying to the negotiating table. Much as Trump made journalists and Washington insiders clutch their pearls in horror, he got results.
Which is something that many Americans are remembering, as the country staggers and slumps under the Biden administration.
Asked why she thought Mr Trump had staged the speaking tour, [Debbie Mazzocchi, 65] replied: “Because he loves his country. He’s not doing it to fill his pockets, he’s already a billionaire. He’s doing it for the American people.”
Uthukrishna Gurusany, 43, an India-born US citizen wearing a Make America Great Again cap, said he had paid $US217 for his ticket. “I came because I don’t like illegal immigration,” he said. “Me, I went through all the process and I don’t want anyone to come illegally. Trump is stopping all the illegal immigrants, that’s what I like about him.”
Hmm, this Uthukrishna guy sounds like one of those “white supremacists” the media keep shrieking about. After all, as Enrique Tarrio knows, “white supremacists” come in all colours, these days.
They’re even trickier than the virus China is yet to make amends for.
