SHENYANG, CHINA – While President Trump and others are still being criticized for referring to the Wuhan Coronavirus as the Wuhan Coronavirus, Chinese state media on Wednesday confirmed the legitimacy of an image that is circulating online of a restaurant in Shenyang, China displaying a banner celebrating Chinese coronavirus deaths in the United States, as well as Japan.
The Global Times, which is a state-run publication in China, has been running conspiracy theories, which have accused the U.S. Army of artificially engineering the Wuhan virus and using it as a bio-attack on China.
That is an interesting theory, especially since one can imagine that if that were really the case, China would have likely declared war on the United States. Obviously, this is propaganda.
Law Enforcement Today has learned that The Times identified the offending restaurant as “Mother Yang’s Porridge Restaurant” and noted that police arrested the manager responsible for putting up a banner, apparently who wished for the pandemic that originated in the communist state to inflict as much damage on the United States and Japan as possible.
Banner at restaurant in #CCP ruled #China says: “Congratulations on the #epidemic in the US! We wish the epidemic in dwarf Japan will last forever and ever!”
What do you think? I call it anti-humanity. Do these kinds of people have the right to protest again “racism”? #CCPVirus pic.twitter.com/N6dODztUI8— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) March 23, 2020
“Celebrating the epidemic in the U.S. and wishing coronavirus a nice trip to Japan,” a large red banner over the restaurant read, according to the Global Times’ translation. Other translations of the sign noted that the Chinese characters also insult Japan as “little” and hope the virus spread “forever after that [arrival into Japan]”:
The Times said that the business itself profusely apologized on government-run social media and fired the manager that put up the decoration, in addition to police detaining the person. The restaurant claimed owners were not notified or aware of the banner before it went up.
The manager was identified as a 30-something worker who had been there for some time and claimed that the banner was only up for about 90 minutes before police arrived at the scene. Since China controls all media within the country, there is no independent corroboration of the report which confirm this.
The news service UPI identified the manager as having the last name of HUI, but not much more is known about this person or his/her fate after being detained by Chinese police. If past practice is to be used as a guide, one can imagine this guy is either in a gulag or no longer breathing O2.
The banner appeared to be celebrating the growing number of coronavirus-related deaths in both Japan and the United States.
As of the writing of this article, there were 1387 cases of Chinese coronavirus in Japan, with 47 deaths. Meanwhile in the United States, there are currently 85,505 cases nationwide, with 1,290 deaths, including 365 in New York City alone.
Both Japan and the U.S. have virtually shut down, with only essential workers and industries being allowed to operate, in order to try to slow the spread of the virus. The virus has hit the economy particularly hard in the United States, with airlines being hit particularly hard.
The Global Times wrote an article last month in which it claimed that a U.S. Army facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland had engineered a form of coronavirus that was more contagious and difficult to treat.
The propaganda was also propagated by Chinese government officials. Even in the United States, Chinese Foreign Ministry official Zhao Lijian wrote on Twitter, “It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.” Alrighty then.
In China, the Communist Party bans citizens from using Twitter; only high-ranking Party members are permitted to use the social media service. Twitter (shocker) has refused to hold Chinese officials to its terms of service about sharing dangerous disinformation. That apparently only applies to conservative sites in the United States.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly slammed China for accusing the United States of fabricating the disease without a basis for making those claims.
“My concern is that this cover-up, the disinformation that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in, is still denying the world the information it needs so that we can prevent further cases or something like this from recurring again,” Pompeo said this week.
“The disinformation campaign from Russia and Iran as well as China continues. They’re talking about it coming from the U.S. Army, and they’re saying maybe it began in Italy, all things to deflect responsibility.”
Meanwhile, last month the United States was sending humanitarian relief to Wuhan, such as PPE and other medical supplies, which we could use here right now. But that’s who we are as Americans.
We have coordinated with U.S. organizations to transport more humanitarian relief to people in Wuhan. Personal protective equipment and other medical supplies donated by these organizations can help save lives in #China and help protect people from the #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/57SN2TXfLP
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) February 7, 2020
The Chinese coronavirus originated in Wuhan, central China, in November. Chinese officials did nothing about the growing outbreak for months until privately alerting the World Health Organization (WHO) in January and shutting down a wild meat market that is believed was the location of origin for the virus’ outbreak. The coronavirus tend to infect humans after living in animals thorough consumption.
Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, is home to 11 million people and to China’s Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, which is licensed to handle the world’s most dangerous pathogens. The Chinese government had bragged that the facility identified the Wuhan virus as a new pathogen very quickly.
It wasn’t until after January 20 when China finally admitted to the world that it had identified a new virus—the WHO told the world that, according to Chinese scientists, the coronavirus was not contagious from human to human.
Scientists now know that to have been false and have found that the Chinese coronavirus is highly contagious, which is necessitating the shutdown of nearly the entire American economy, as well as those of countries around the world.
In addition, a February study had found evidence that the virus did not, in fact originate at the shut-down met market, which raised questions as to China’s initial response to what has exploded into a worldwide pandemic.
China arrested doctors who talked about COVID-19, detained journalists, & lied to the World Health Organisation about the danger. The global death toll is a result of China’s lies and their refusal to tell the rest of the world what it was dealing with:https://t.co/NSiaVgMUgJ
— gript (@griptmedia) March 24, 2020
A study commissioned by the University of Southampton discovered this month found that had the Communist Party not detained doctors who were trying to issue warnings in December and January about the disease spreading from Wuhan, a majority of the world’s coronavirus cases, estimated at 95 percent, could have been prevented.
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