China's government is culpable and western elites need to realize that

Officially there are no live animal markets in Beijing. They are all shuttered, per the communist party statistics. But when a reporter from Smithsonian mag went there, she ordered two chickens, the throats were slit live and then packaged back to her. “In reality, guerrilla vendors run furtive slaughterhouses throughout this national capital of wide avenues, gleaming architecture and more than 20 million residents—despite warnings that their businesses could be spreading deadly new strains of the flu.” The article warned of a new, potentially viral pandemic originating from China, and was from November 2017.

One can however go back even further. There were research papers from 2006, written by Chinese academics, that too, warning about acute respiratory viral infections arising from Chinese live meat market. Historically, severe pandemics, like bird flu and SARS originated from China.

It was argued in National Geographic that even the 1918 flu that killed 50 million people, originated in China as Chinese labourers brought it to Canada. You know the matter is seriously the Chinese government’s fault when even the woke imbeciles at Vox were compelled to do an explainer video about Chinese open live meat markets.

Talk to most western media elites, however, and you’d see that they are mostly worried about the nomenclature of the Chinese Wuhan flu, while giving the Chinese government a pass. This started after a massive propaganda push from Beijing, spearheaded by their top diplomat tweeting an insane conspiracy theory from a crank pseudo think-tank in Canada, claiming that the virus was originated in the US.

Immediately, almost by a miraculous hivemind, everyone from Anne Applebaum.

To Ian Bremmer.

To the The New York Times op-ed page, which started tweeting about how it was China who bought the west time, and we squandered it by wasting it. I am not making this up, but this “China bought the West time,” is a word to word rip-off from a February 4 headline, in Xinhua, from the Chinese communist party. It’s direct Chinese propaganda in America’s paper of records, during a time of a global pandemic. I am not much into the whole “enemy of the people” shtick, but by God, some people don’t make it easy.

The reality is that the illusion of the Chinese government’s good will is revealed for the falsehood that it is. As one of the foremost scholars on China, Mira Rapp-Hooper, noted “This is deeply distressing and suggests that without the CCP’s COVID-19 coverup-up most of the global spread would’ve been prevented.”

Neither is it true that China is helping Italy and Europe with masks while America closes its borders. As it appears, it is a deal to sell masks to Italy.

It is a modern equivalent of buying iron ore, and then starting a war to profit from it. To put it simply, the Chinese government monopolized the market for medicines and manufacturing, and then Chinese incompetence and negligence started a global pandemic which so far has already caused over five thousand deaths. Now China is profiting from those deaths.

What degenerate form of social system dictates that all the supply chains should be in the monopolized basket of the chief economic and geo-political rival?

But that’s not all. It’s not a matter of capitalism versus communism, it is a matter of culture and nationalism as well. Taiwan, Japan and South Korea are hardly communist. And yet, they were disciplined and nationalist enough to prevent this fate.

For all the talks of solidarity, Italy was left alone by a rapacious EU. “Italy has already asked to activate the European Union Mechanism of Civil Protection for the supply of medical equipment for individual protection. But, unfortunately, not a single EU country responded to the Commission’s call,” an op-ed by the Italian ambassador stated, as Germany was planning to localise supply chains.

Meanwhile, “USAID funded the design & construction of hundreds of hospitals, clinics, midwife and teacher-training centers, high schools, university residences, & govt office buildings,” money that could have been used to make face masks locally. The reality is that a section of our elites are not just incompetent, but actively anti-national.

It is not the British, Canadian and American government’s job to decide which feudal society should have transgender toilets and women’s schools. It is however the government’s job to ensure competence during a crisis, to keep the citizens safe, and to understand an enemy. And China, and all those who take the Chinese government’s side in the domestic debates within the West, are the enemies.

Foreign policy realists are often called pacifists or isolationists. That is, of course, not true. Conservative realists have a narrow definition of national interests, and naturally any humanitarian concerns do not fall under any expansive scope, thereby negating most utopian missions. They are generally more relaxed from hysteria and do-gooder urges. However, there is a time for righteous anger, a cold seething fury, and it is now.

For years, there have been warnings against over reliance on Chinese supply chains, on hollowing out manufacturing for profit, to the effect where even face masks, a piece of cloth tied with two elastic strings, are manufactured in China. For years, there have been warnings against ChiCom propaganda parroted by “respectable” media elites, who do their best to sow discord during times of national stress, and continue to promote global supply lines, concentrated in the hands of the world’s largest and arguably most brutal and efficient totalitarian great power. Things cannot go the way it used to, and people should be held accountable, not just for incompetence, but for resistance to structural changes.?