Hitting back maybe

[happy daze john in oz]

You are endangering the world’: German tabloid goes to war with China.

20 April 2020

Could China have done more to prevent the coronavirus pandemic? One
tabloid editor in Germany certainly thinks so and an extraordinary
bust-up has broken out between the Chinese government and his
newspaper as a result. The row kicked off last week when Bild – the
best-selling paper in Germany, published an editorial entitled. 'What
China owes us', calling for China to pay reparations of £130 billion
for the damage done by the outbreak of the virus.

Later that day, the Chinese embassy in Berlin then responded with an
open letter saying, ‘we regard the style in which you 'campaign'
against China in your current report on page two as infamous. Those
who do the same as you do with today's Bild newspaper fuel
nationalism, prejudice and xenophobia’.

Bild editor Julian Reichelt didn't take the criticism lying down.
Reichelt has since retaliated with a no-holds-barred response to
China's President Xi Jinping, in which he reads the Chinese leadership
the riot act:

“You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your
rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only
monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the
rest of the world. China enriches itself mainly with the inventions of
others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not
innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in your
country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted
to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is Corona.

Reichelt doesn't stop there. He goes on to ask:

“Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters,
sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?

Finally, he finishes off by saying:

“Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the "traditional
friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great
"friendship" when you now generously send masks around the world. This
isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile –
a Trojan Horse.

“You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You
will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.


Punchy stuff.

[Keith at Tregenna]

We have enough of this in world news, sadly we need cures not propaganda.

K.

[Ivan Cloherty]

About time somebody told them.

And Keith far be it from me to cause dissent, which is not my intent, but #2 is a bit rich coming from you, there is a thread on here with 12 posts, 11 of those posts are from you, and you are always posting news items which we've seen in the Press or on TV. Just a comment, nothing more, and that's all from me.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Turned over a new leaf ages ago, hence, should agree with those that said the same but in reality
they / some do nowt different. Well up for towing the line but, not on my own.

The thread is Hitting back maybe ?

C'est la vie.

K.

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[Louis the fly]

I agree with Keith on this one. To hide his own inadequate mishandling of the Covid epidemic Trump is looking for a scapegoat to blame, China is his obvious choice. Predictably other countries are jumping on the Trump bandwagon. This is a completely new virus the world has never seen before, impossible to predict or prevent. Worldwide cooperation and pooling of knowledge to find a vaccine is the only way to fight this deadly disease. Ebola in the Congo was fought this way. Launching trade wars and sanctions to gain advantage will not find an answer or cure for the epidemic.

[Doc Vernon]

As i have said before there is far too much on this issue and therefore i am closing this Thread!
Please refrain from using this Covid Topic here on site, there are plenty of places to discuss this!
Thank You

Closed!