Infectious diseases expert Jeremy Farrar has himself been at the center of the debate over the mysterious origins of COVID, which first broke out in China in late 2019.
China is under no obligation to dissuade the Euro-centric world from a conspiracy theory narrative, and it has been moving itself into that posture for some time now. The US and Europe have been rattling sabres for years now, and that’s well after a full century of humiliating China. If the West wants China to respond to their spurious conspiracy claims, they’re going to have make a lot more effort to show good faith. As it stands now, if I were Chinese, I wouldn’t trust the West within 100 miles of China.
If this is a good faith question, I highly recommend looking into modern Chinese history, starting with the 1800s. Europe brought China to its knees. Massive EuroAmerican fortunes were amassed through getting 40% of Chinese people addicted to opium, Forbes among them. The Chinese attempt to protect their people by outlawing opium was met with orientalism by the merchants who convinced the British navy to attack China and force it to allow the drug trade. The Opium Wars is how Britain ended up occupying Hong Kong and how Europeans were immune to Chinese law in all the major port cities.
When the PLA joined with the KMT to fight off the Japanese, the KMT then turned on the PLA and massacred as many as they could. The PLA eventually won the hearts and minds of the Chinese people and through a people’s war and through conversion of thousands of KMT soldiers to the PLA defeated the KMT who ran away to Taiwan. The British then stepped in and prevented the PLA from continuing to pursue the KMT because the British wanted the KMT to be their puppet regime. And that’s how Taiwan got into the mess it’s in.
The West spent a century dominating China, eventually even imposing tarrifs on behalf of China on goods that passsed through China, but all the tarrifs were collected by the Europeans! China finally stood up in 1949, but it has not finished pushing European influence out of its region. So the idea that the WHO should be trusted to be impartial when literally everything the West has done is weaponized against its enemies is laughable.
I am not going to listen to arguments based on events from 200 years ago. My family were being starved in Ireland back then.
China was a closed nation for a very long time. Any developments in China are down to China themselves. Do you even know the term of the Cold War?
There were no friendly arrangements between the west and China until very recent. The hand of friendship has been extended due to the collapse of Russia and the west recognising the futility of being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. China also opened it borders, something unthinkable before the USSR collapsed. Since the cooling of relations between the west and China, China has abused that hand of friendship in many areas. Is it any wonder that hostilities are building up again?
I am not going to listen to arguments based on events from 200 years ago
1950 was less than 100 years ago dumbass
The hand of friendship has been extended due to the collapse of Russia and the west recognising the futility of being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive
The sino-soviet split and triangular diplomacy says what?
Except for the historical facts which they presented you with, and the reason for giving that context? Each of their claims is basic history.
Do you not believe that what happened in our past shapes our present? Do you just think everything happens disconnected from the other?
So far you are the one who have yet to provide any basis for your claims. The other user gave a succint argument as to why China has reason to distrust western institutions and your response has been “nuh uh”.
Do better.
Lol my only purpose now is to wind you up. This stopped being a feasible conversation a long time ago when you tried associating the racist card as a valid argument.
It is very obvious you are a bot. You don’t even realise you are answering three threads of the same conversation simultaneously.
You’re gonna have to step up your game then. So far you’re just a very basic run-of-the-mill chud
This stopped being a feasible conversation a long time ago when you tried associating the racist card as a valid argument.
Dude, you’re being racist, it’s been explained to you how, you choose to keep being racist.
“Oh now you’re playing the racist card.” There’s a real easy way to stop getting that card played - Stop being racist
It is very obvious you are a bot.
I thought you wanted to wind me up? If I’m an unthinking machine, how are you going to do that?
If you think I am a bot, why are you engaging with me? What a sad life you must have.
Your logic seems unfounded, I’m starting to think YOU might be a machine :thonk:
You don’t even realise you are answering three threads of the same conversation simultaneously.
No, I do. I just wanna point out to you how you’re being a dickhead. You’re just being a dickhead everywhere. Do you really think there is a LLM advanced enough to carry this kind of conversation, but also not advanced enough to distinguish three different threads? How stupid are you? I know no people stupid enough to make such faults in logic, you must be a bot
The US is based entirely on arguments from 200 years ago, the fuck you talking about?
Your family was being starved in Ireland by the fucking English 200 years ago and Ireland is still dealing with English occupation of their land. The English also starved India, and it wasn’t 200 years ago. You think that forced famine is somehow more relevant than the forced famine in Ireland? It’s not. History is present now.
China was a closed nation because why? Why is China being closed bad? Why is it European right to forcibly open China? What kind of fucking argument is that?
And then to top it off you think the West gave up on being aggressive? What fucking planet do you live on because here on Earth the West is still bombing the shit out of countries, lynching national leaders in the streets, training terrorists and assassins, and violently killing and subjugating people all over the world. And you think the West extended a “friendly hand” that China has spurned. Holy shit you are fucking delusional. Read a fucking book.
And China is still stealing land and minerals from other countries. What exactly is your point? That the only people who should respect fairness and equality are everyone else except China?
Go tell that to the Myanmar where you are currently stealing copper from mining, or the Uyghurs where genocide is very evident, or the many other areas China is nothing more than a shitty country to deal with. No owes China anything, and China certainly does not do anything for anyone else without self interest. You victimise your own people even when they are outside of your own borders. You intimidate the families of those who disagree with you. You steal kids from their home to reindoctrinate them. The list just keeps growing. China is not deserving of any respect, at least not anymore than the respect it gives to others.
And China is still stealing land and minerals from other countries. What exactly is your point?
Whataboutism. As far as I can tell, China is offering better deals to every country it trades with than the West does. The West use neocolonial debt traps to control the global South. China, however, forgives millions in debts and defers payments and interest every year and even the analysis from the most rabid Westoids shows that China is not engaged in debt trapping.
China doesn’t invade other countries and then grant mineral rights and extraction contracts to Chinese companies like the US does literally on every habitable continent. The US and UK overthrow democratically elected governments regularly in order to protect their oil interests. China does nothing like this. You are projecting Western behaviors onto China.
I am not Chinese, you don’t get to accuse me of doing these things. The Myanmar discussion is a little too fresh for us to have, we need some more clarity on what’s going on. The Uyghurs though, you’re gonna need to do some research on that. Most of the “evidence” is actually a braindead report from one man who is an evangelical Christian in Germany who thinks all the Jews will perish during the rapture which will occur in his lifetime, he thinks birth control in Germany is murder, and he thinks IUDs in China are genocide. The Uyghur population is GROWING in China and has been growing since records on this sort of thing began. There’s never been a genocide in history where the target of the genocide has a population increase. There’s no actual evidence for a genocide, just a warmongering narrative from the West, because that’s what the West does - it lies in order to justify war. It’s been doing it for hundreds of years now, nonstop. And you think the West stopped engaging in aggression and is just trying to be friendly with China. You’re a fool.
Everything else you wrote is just rabid orientalism. You’re a racist and you’ll believe anything the lying West tells you about their chosen racial enemy so you can sleep well at night knowing that when the US tortures prisoners with power drills and rape and genital mutilation that they’re doing it for a good cause.
Also, I don’t think it’s just the one crazy guy. The UN also sent someone over in 2022, and they published the UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang, which was pretty damning. It’s sources include interviewing people who lived in Xinjiang at the time the abuse had been reported. They also restricted where she could go so she couldn’t do a full investigation, which also isn’t a great look. And this was by Michele Bachlet, someone who had been accused of being too soft on Beijing before, who praised China before, and who you’d probably agree with on other subjects like Israel’s occupation of Palestine and who disagrees with US sanctions during the pandemic.
The wikipedia article cites Adrian Zenz prolifically. So most of what you’re reading comes from the same ridiculous and disgraced source that nearly every other report on the matter comes from. But, the Uyghur birthrate IS decreasing. That’s what happens universally when communities become more affluent, more educated, and more secure. But what’s the population growth rate? It was 11.4% growth. Now it’s 3.7%. Is that a decline in population? No. It’s an increase in population, a 3.7% increase in population. Explain to me how a genocide increases the population by 3.7%. I’ll wait.
Also, I don’t think it’s just the one crazy guy. The UN also sent someone over in 2022, and they published the UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang, which was pretty damning.
That UN report literally cites Zenz as it’s primary form of evidence that doesn’t come from sources managed by the intelligence community. Remember that the CIA has an East Turkistan project to incite terrorist violence by spreading extreme interpretations of Islam in the reason as an explicit program to destabilize China. You cannot trust anything that the West touches in this regard. That’s why we refer to the 30+ countries with Muslim majorities who actually toured Xinjiang and say not only is there no genocide but in fact Xinjiang is a place that is good and healthy for the continuation of the Uyghur culture.
It’s sources include interviewing people who lived in Xinjiang at the time the abuse had been reported
But aren’t actually in Xinjiang. There are plenty of people who claim to be from the region. There are also plenty of people who were arrested due to actually being involved in extremist groups with ties to the CIA program. These groups had several different ways of identifying themselves including dress, vocabulary and talking points, and interpretations of history and religion, and symbolism. They also have networks that connect them to wider regional logistical partisan and terrorist networks. So when they escape Chinese law enforcement and get out of Xinjiang, they tell their story about how they were imprisoned after being profiled for wearing “traditional” clothes, all the while if you actually go to Xinjiang people are wearing traditional clothes all over the place, and most of them know what the extremists look like, what they wear, how they talk, and where they congregate.
They also restricted where she could go so she couldn’t do a full investigation, which also isn’t a great look
Because the West has a history of using the lie of “impartial inspections” for espionage and war propaganda. China has no requirement to comply with Western inspections while not a single Western organization is doing inspections or oversight of the CIA program for East Turkistan extremism or any of the dozen other programs that the West created to do harm to China.
And this was by Michele Bachlet, someone who had been accused of being too soft on Beijing before, who praised China before, and who you’d probably agree with on other subjects like Israel’s occupation of Palestine and who disagrees with US sanctions during the pandemic.
Appeal to authority. I don’t give a shit what her former opinions on this are. Her position on this topic uncritically cites a right-wing anti-semitic German evangelical who’s report stated that China was installing over 100 IUDs per person and also counted removal of an IUD the same as the installation of an IUD and then construed access to voluntary family planning medical care as evidence of genocide despite population continuing to grow. Remember that the UN didn’t even allow the PRC to be part of the UN until 1971, instead giving the seat to the KMT in Taiwan during the most violent and brutal years of the White Terror when the KMT killed tens of thousands of people for the political crime of agreeing that the PRC was now the government of China. So, expecting the UN to be an impartial and valid arbiter, especially in matters regarding China, is just ignoring the entire history of the North Atlantic’s relationship and the UN’s relationship with China.
People like you: I don’t care about history, we’re different today and you should let us do what we want.
China: go fuck yourself.
And yet people like you are shocked that’s what China tells you. China’s been here for thousands of years, for China 200 years is recent history. It’s cute that your people were starving though, hopefully that happens to you.
Since you’ve already established yourself as a conspiracy theorist it’s no surprise that you also think people disagreeing with you is another conspiracy :che-smile:
Stating that China’s insistent interference does not make a conspiracy theory. It states a fact. If China does not negative comments, then it should not endorse negative actions.
Imagine somebody you dated physically and emotionally abused you for 20 years and then 10 years later they get upset that you still care about something that happened so long ago lmao
Common sense would dictate that we look into the cause of the pandemic. But I totally get the fear of the pointless propaganda war that would have probably come out of it.
It’s beyond belief at this point how much the western press will bend any story about China into China bad.
China is under no obligation to dissuade the Euro-centric world from a conspiracy theory narrative, and it has been moving itself into that posture for some time now. The US and Europe have been rattling sabres for years now, and that’s well after a full century of humiliating China. If the West wants China to respond to their spurious conspiracy claims, they’re going to have make a lot more effort to show good faith. As it stands now, if I were Chinese, I wouldn’t trust the West within 100 miles of China.
We have just had a world pandemic. Common sense states that we should be looking into that.
Humiliating China in what way?
If this is a good faith question, I highly recommend looking into modern Chinese history, starting with the 1800s. Europe brought China to its knees. Massive EuroAmerican fortunes were amassed through getting 40% of Chinese people addicted to opium, Forbes among them. The Chinese attempt to protect their people by outlawing opium was met with orientalism by the merchants who convinced the British navy to attack China and force it to allow the drug trade. The Opium Wars is how Britain ended up occupying Hong Kong and how Europeans were immune to Chinese law in all the major port cities.
When the PLA joined with the KMT to fight off the Japanese, the KMT then turned on the PLA and massacred as many as they could. The PLA eventually won the hearts and minds of the Chinese people and through a people’s war and through conversion of thousands of KMT soldiers to the PLA defeated the KMT who ran away to Taiwan. The British then stepped in and prevented the PLA from continuing to pursue the KMT because the British wanted the KMT to be their puppet regime. And that’s how Taiwan got into the mess it’s in.
The West spent a century dominating China, eventually even imposing tarrifs on behalf of China on goods that passsed through China, but all the tarrifs were collected by the Europeans! China finally stood up in 1949, but it has not finished pushing European influence out of its region. So the idea that the WHO should be trusted to be impartial when literally everything the West has done is weaponized against its enemies is laughable.
I am not going to listen to arguments based on events from 200 years ago. My family were being starved in Ireland back then.
China was a closed nation for a very long time. Any developments in China are down to China themselves. Do you even know the term of the Cold War?
There were no friendly arrangements between the west and China until very recent. The hand of friendship has been extended due to the collapse of Russia and the west recognising the futility of being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. China also opened it borders, something unthinkable before the USSR collapsed. Since the cooling of relations between the west and China, China has abused that hand of friendship in many areas. Is it any wonder that hostilities are building up again?
1950 was less than 100 years ago dumbass
The sino-soviet split and triangular diplomacy says what?
1800 was not. China are supposed to be good at maths, wtf happened to you? They obviously do not spend a lot on bots these days.
achievement unlocked, get called a chinese bot
did I say 1800 was 100 years ago dumbass? 1950 was less than 100 years ago. Can you fucking read?
when measuring centuries a bit of give and take is fine.
It was after all a protracted team effort of subjugation and well, by today’s standards, genocide.
Most nations would be a bit butt hurt about it or at the very least work to prevent it from happening again.
Do you really think your racism is a good look?
Strike three, you 're out!
Enjoy remaining incredibly stupid and easily manipulated for the rest of your life.
Why thank you very much. Please enjoy the next conversation you have where you present many other arguments with absolutely no foundation or basis.
Says the sinophobic weeb that accuses others of being “bots” because you don’t agree with them.
You missed the racist party out. You know the bit where everyone is racist, who points out the gaslighting Chinese bots proliferate on the internet.
I didn’t have to. I’m only talking about you in particular being a racist piece of shit accusing other people of being bots, you silly weeb.
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Except for the historical facts which they presented you with, and the reason for giving that context? Each of their claims is basic history.
Do you not believe that what happened in our past shapes our present? Do you just think everything happens disconnected from the other?
So far you are the one who have yet to provide any basis for your claims. The other user gave a succint argument as to why China has reason to distrust western institutions and your response has been “nuh uh”.
Do better.
Lol my only purpose now is to wind you up. This stopped being a feasible conversation a long time ago when you tried associating the racist card as a valid argument.
It is very obvious you are a bot. You don’t even realise you are answering three threads of the same conversation simultaneously.
You’re gonna have to step up your game then. So far you’re just a very basic run-of-the-mill chud
Dude, you’re being racist, it’s been explained to you how, you choose to keep being racist.
“Oh now you’re playing the racist card.” There’s a real easy way to stop getting that card played - Stop being racist
I thought you wanted to wind me up? If I’m an unthinking machine, how are you going to do that?
If you think I am a bot, why are you engaging with me? What a sad life you must have.
Your logic seems unfounded, I’m starting to think YOU might be a machine :thonk:
No, I do. I just wanna point out to you how you’re being a dickhead. You’re just being a dickhead everywhere. Do you really think there is a LLM advanced enough to carry this kind of conversation, but also not advanced enough to distinguish three different threads? How stupid are you? I know no people stupid enough to make such faults in logic, you must be a bot
The US is based entirely on arguments from 200 years ago, the fuck you talking about?
Your family was being starved in Ireland by the fucking English 200 years ago and Ireland is still dealing with English occupation of their land. The English also starved India, and it wasn’t 200 years ago. You think that forced famine is somehow more relevant than the forced famine in Ireland? It’s not. History is present now.
China was a closed nation because why? Why is China being closed bad? Why is it European right to forcibly open China? What kind of fucking argument is that?
And then to top it off you think the West gave up on being aggressive? What fucking planet do you live on because here on Earth the West is still bombing the shit out of countries, lynching national leaders in the streets, training terrorists and assassins, and violently killing and subjugating people all over the world. And you think the West extended a “friendly hand” that China has spurned. Holy shit you are fucking delusional. Read a fucking book.
And China is still stealing land and minerals from other countries. What exactly is your point? That the only people who should respect fairness and equality are everyone else except China?
Go tell that to the Myanmar where you are currently stealing copper from mining, or the Uyghurs where genocide is very evident, or the many other areas China is nothing more than a shitty country to deal with. No owes China anything, and China certainly does not do anything for anyone else without self interest. You victimise your own people even when they are outside of your own borders. You intimidate the families of those who disagree with you. You steal kids from their home to reindoctrinate them. The list just keeps growing. China is not deserving of any respect, at least not anymore than the respect it gives to others.
Whataboutism. As far as I can tell, China is offering better deals to every country it trades with than the West does. The West use neocolonial debt traps to control the global South. China, however, forgives millions in debts and defers payments and interest every year and even the analysis from the most rabid Westoids shows that China is not engaged in debt trapping.
China doesn’t invade other countries and then grant mineral rights and extraction contracts to Chinese companies like the US does literally on every habitable continent. The US and UK overthrow democratically elected governments regularly in order to protect their oil interests. China does nothing like this. You are projecting Western behaviors onto China.
I am not Chinese, you don’t get to accuse me of doing these things. The Myanmar discussion is a little too fresh for us to have, we need some more clarity on what’s going on. The Uyghurs though, you’re gonna need to do some research on that. Most of the “evidence” is actually a braindead report from one man who is an evangelical Christian in Germany who thinks all the Jews will perish during the rapture which will occur in his lifetime, he thinks birth control in Germany is murder, and he thinks IUDs in China are genocide. The Uyghur population is GROWING in China and has been growing since records on this sort of thing began. There’s never been a genocide in history where the target of the genocide has a population increase. There’s no actual evidence for a genocide, just a warmongering narrative from the West, because that’s what the West does - it lies in order to justify war. It’s been doing it for hundreds of years now, nonstop. And you think the West stopped engaging in aggression and is just trying to be friendly with China. You’re a fool.
Everything else you wrote is just rabid orientalism. You’re a racist and you’ll believe anything the lying West tells you about their chosen racial enemy so you can sleep well at night knowing that when the US tortures prisoners with power drills and rape and genital mutilation that they’re doing it for a good cause.
Wikipedia seems to disagree with their population increasing. In fact, it’s saying their birth rate is decreasing compared to the rest of China.
Also, I don’t think it’s just the one crazy guy. The UN also sent someone over in 2022, and they published the UN Human Rights Office report on Xinjiang, which was pretty damning. It’s sources include interviewing people who lived in Xinjiang at the time the abuse had been reported. They also restricted where she could go so she couldn’t do a full investigation, which also isn’t a great look. And this was by Michele Bachlet, someone who had been accused of being too soft on Beijing before, who praised China before, and who you’d probably agree with on other subjects like Israel’s occupation of Palestine and who disagrees with US sanctions during the pandemic.
The wikipedia article cites Adrian Zenz prolifically. So most of what you’re reading comes from the same ridiculous and disgraced source that nearly every other report on the matter comes from. But, the Uyghur birthrate IS decreasing. That’s what happens universally when communities become more affluent, more educated, and more secure. But what’s the population growth rate? It was 11.4% growth. Now it’s 3.7%. Is that a decline in population? No. It’s an increase in population, a 3.7% increase in population. Explain to me how a genocide increases the population by 3.7%. I’ll wait.
That UN report literally cites Zenz as it’s primary form of evidence that doesn’t come from sources managed by the intelligence community. Remember that the CIA has an East Turkistan project to incite terrorist violence by spreading extreme interpretations of Islam in the reason as an explicit program to destabilize China. You cannot trust anything that the West touches in this regard. That’s why we refer to the 30+ countries with Muslim majorities who actually toured Xinjiang and say not only is there no genocide but in fact Xinjiang is a place that is good and healthy for the continuation of the Uyghur culture.
But aren’t actually in Xinjiang. There are plenty of people who claim to be from the region. There are also plenty of people who were arrested due to actually being involved in extremist groups with ties to the CIA program. These groups had several different ways of identifying themselves including dress, vocabulary and talking points, and interpretations of history and religion, and symbolism. They also have networks that connect them to wider regional logistical partisan and terrorist networks. So when they escape Chinese law enforcement and get out of Xinjiang, they tell their story about how they were imprisoned after being profiled for wearing “traditional” clothes, all the while if you actually go to Xinjiang people are wearing traditional clothes all over the place, and most of them know what the extremists look like, what they wear, how they talk, and where they congregate.
Because the West has a history of using the lie of “impartial inspections” for espionage and war propaganda. China has no requirement to comply with Western inspections while not a single Western organization is doing inspections or oversight of the CIA program for East Turkistan extremism or any of the dozen other programs that the West created to do harm to China.
Appeal to authority. I don’t give a shit what her former opinions on this are. Her position on this topic uncritically cites a right-wing anti-semitic German evangelical who’s report stated that China was installing over 100 IUDs per person and also counted removal of an IUD the same as the installation of an IUD and then construed access to voluntary family planning medical care as evidence of genocide despite population continuing to grow. Remember that the UN didn’t even allow the PRC to be part of the UN until 1971, instead giving the seat to the KMT in Taiwan during the most violent and brutal years of the White Terror when the KMT killed tens of thousands of people for the political crime of agreeing that the PRC was now the government of China. So, expecting the UN to be an impartial and valid arbiter, especially in matters regarding China, is just ignoring the entire history of the North Atlantic’s relationship and the UN’s relationship with China.
People like you: I don’t care about history, we’re different today and you should let us do what we want.
China: go fuck yourself.
And yet people like you are shocked that’s what China tells you. China’s been here for thousands of years, for China 200 years is recent history. It’s cute that your people were starving though, hopefully that happens to you.
Enjoy your life Chinese bot.
“everyone I don’t like is a chinese bot”
Since you’ve already established yourself as a conspiracy theorist it’s no surprise that you also think people disagreeing with you is another conspiracy :che-smile:
Stating that China’s insistent interference does not make a conspiracy theory. It states a fact. If China does not negative comments, then it should not endorse negative actions.
You almost managed to form a coherent sentence here. Wanna try again?
“Everyone that disagrees with me is a scheming oriental machine” and other racist utterances by liberal bigots
You keep calling me a racist, and yet use terms like weeb. The only racist remarks I am seeing are from yourself.
I’ve not used the term weeb once you idiot.
“You’re a chinese machine” Is an incredibly racist utterance. Better yourself
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China opened up long before the soviet union collapsed. that’s just wrong.
like 20 years wrong. You really need to do some reading chief.
Imagine somebody you dated physically and emotionally abused you for 20 years and then 10 years later they get upset that you still care about something that happened so long ago lmao
it’s a thing and kind of rough
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
Common sense would dictate that we look into the cause of the pandemic. But I totally get the fear of the pointless propaganda war that would have probably come out of it.
It’s beyond belief at this point how much the western press will bend any story about China into China bad.