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Using Traditional Chinese Medicine to Combat the Epidemic

(13 Mar) Online news circulated in mainland China of Dr Zhong Nanshan's dismissal from leading the national task force combatting the Wuhan pneumonia. The official reason for his dismissal is unknown. There is online speculation that Zhong resisted Chinese President Xi Jinping's mandate to use "Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to combat the epidemic" and that he stubbornly adhered to Western medicine principles. This led to dissatisfaction within the Chinese medicine industry and complaints to President Xi.

//Zhong had previously spared no efforts to serve his country, declaring "the virus' discovery in China did not necessitate its origin in China". Deliberately left blank, Chinese netizens understood the declaration as "the virus is a biological weapon from an American lab". After completing this mission of foreign declaration for China, Zhong retired. In fact, because of the paranoia triggered, the US government felt slandered. He is no longer able to apply for an American visitor visa, a huge sacrifice on his part.//

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Using-Traditional-Chinese-Medicine-to-Combat-the-Epidemic-03-19

Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/33tWGDM

Further reading:
China Accuses US of the Source of Wuhan Pneumonia
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18660
Hong Kong Experts: Wuhan Coronavirus originated from China is an "outcome of Chinese bad habits"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18657
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18658

#ChineseMedicine #Xi #ZhongNanshan #VirusOrigin #ChinesePropaganda #Censorship #Coronavirus
#Newspaper

Adviser to Hong Kong on Coronavirus Pulls Controversial Column, Apologizes

//An adviser to the Hong Kong government has withdrawn a column he co-authored in which he said it was acceptable to refer to the coronavirus as the "Wuhan coronavirus" and there was no evidence to support allegations the disease came from the United States.

//Yuen Kwok-yung, a leading microbiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the University of Hong Kong, also described the new coronavirus as a product of China's "poor quality culture" of eating wild animals.

//Yuen’s decision late on Wednesday to retract the article from the website of the newspaper Ming Pao sparked a flurry of debate on social media, where some people said it raised questions over freedom of speech in academia in the Chinese-ruled city.

//Yuen apologised and said he did not want to become embroiled in politics.

//“The expression in the article was inappropriate, wordings were even inaccurate, it's not the original intention. (We) hope the outside world does not involve us in politics and saves us a space for research,"

Source: Reuters
https://nyti.ms/33zfqSm

Further reading
Hong Kong Experts: Wuhan Coronavirus originated from China is an "outcome of Chinese bad habits"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18658

#YuenKwokyung #FreedomOfSpeech #Cersorship #Kowtow #VirusOrigin

Full Translation of Yuen Kwok-yung’s Column
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18857
#OpinionArticle #YuenKwokYung

Outbreak in Wuhan shows that lessons from seventeen years ago are forgotten - David Lung and Yuen Kwok-yung, University of Hong Kong

//As a matter of fact, the disease is named by the WHO and the virus is named by the ICTV; the common name is purely a customary matter and suffices to serves it purpose as long as it is simple and clear. The official names of COVID-19 for the disease, or SARS-CoV-2 for the virus, must be used in scientific and academic discourse. However, the simplicity of the popular designations "Wuhan Coronavirus" and "Wuhan Pneumonia" are far more conducive to daily communication and conversations in the media.

//Seventeen years later, wild animal markets have instead grown unabashed, in flagrant violation of the law. The Chinese people have forgotten the lessons of SARS in their entirety. The glaring appearance of live wild animal markets in city centers, and the egregious acts of selling, cooking, and eating these wild animals, constitute a stunning and blatant disregard for the laws.

//Internet conspiracies of an U.S. origin of the virus is not supported by facts, and only serves to mislead the public.

//The Wuhan Coronavirus is a product of inferior Chinese culture -- the culture of recklessly catching and eating wild animals, and treating animals inhumanely, with an utter disrespect and disregard of lives. This inferior culture of the Chinese people -- specifically the consumption of wild animals to satiate themselves -- is the true origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus. If these habits and attitudes remain in place, SARS 3.0 will certainly happen in a matter of a decade or so.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Outbreak-in-Wuhan-shows-that-lessons-from-seventeen-years-ago-are-forgotten---David-Lung-and-Yuen-Kwok-yung-University-of-Hong-K-03-21

Translation by scientisthk2usa
https://bit.ly/2QAFo2x

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https://telegra.ph/18-Mar-David-Christopher-Lung-Yuen-Kwok-yung-Pandemic-Originated-from-Wuhan-Lesson-from-17-Years-Ago-Forsaken-03-21

#VirusOrigin #ChineseCulture #Conspiracy #WuhanPneumonia #NameOfVirus
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

How to play this poker game

(15 Mar) The Wuhan pneumonia is globalized. Even the epidemic may subside when warm weather returns, the world will still be disconnected with China and enter an era of "Post Made in China".

It is not the epidemic that is scary, but the habit of how the Chinese government and the Chinese conceal and lie about everything. The Chinese government and its people think they are always right - all faults are on the U.S. side which is the leader of the West. The world has experienced this, and the global pandemic has been confirmed and declared. Where will all the people, except the Chinese, go? This is a very serious problem.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/How-to-play-this-poker-game-03-22

Image: 地瓜熊老六
Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/2U8Ln0K

#Coronavirus #Mulan #ChinaThreat #VirusOrigin
#FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
Script: Yes I have used inappropriate words, I now announce to withdraw the column, I apologize.

Words on the newspaper:
Pandemic Because of Wuhan US, Lesson Learnt 17 years ago Forgotten Entirely

Source: hellowong

Further reading:
Adviser to Hong Kong on Coronavirus Pulls Controversial Column, Apologizes
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18855

#WhiteTerror #VirusOrigin
#NetizensVoice

CCP’s script:

//1. Where is the origin of this coronavirus pandemic?
Fort Detrick in America, the largest base for biological weapons

2. What is the source of origin of the virus?
SARS + HIV + others

3. Is the virus naturally occurring or artificially made?
Artificially edited and synthesized

4. Who were involved in the planning, research and experimentation of the virus?
Both American and Chinese teams

5. Was the virus released on purpose or by accident?
Leaked, infected, transmitted and widespread by accident //

Editor’s Note: The Chinese officials and state media shifted blame to the US for the coronavirus pandemic. The incident started with China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, who accused the US Army for bringing the epidemic to Wuhan on Twitter, without any proof. While the world is busy fighting against the coronavirus, China took advantage of the situation and started a disinformation campaign to blame that the US Army has introduced the virus. Chinese medical leaders, ambassadors, spokespersons and media joined the campaign, along with thousands of posts on Chinese social media echoing this false accusation.

The credibility of the source in the attached news article is questionable, as it is written by an Asian UFO society. And the webpage no longer exists

Source:
http://news.wenweipo.com/2020/03/21/IN2003210009.htm

#ChinesePropaganda #VirusOrigin #US #Coronavirus #ZhaoLijian
#Investigation #SimonShen

China uses an Italian doctor’s speech to propaganda


(25 Mar) A few days ago, Chinese official media, WeChat, and Hong Kong blue media propagated overwhelmingly, "Wuhan pneumonia originates from Italy." The only source is to quote a sentence from an Italian doctor Giuseppe Remuzzi interviewed by the American radio station, and then take it out of context. We explained it yesterday.

A fellow protestor sent an email to Dr Remuzzi to inquire about the truth. From the Italian expert's reply below, we could clearly know his original intention: Not only affirmed that Wuhan pneumonia originated in Wuhan, but he suspected that as early as the end of October, Wuhan pneumonia infection in Wuhan might has appeared, but the Chinese government didn’t announced it. During this period, a large number of Chinese people may have come to Italy from Wuhan, which caused some suspicious cases in Italy. Because all information from China was not transparent, the epidemic was out of control. The whole message is completely contrary to the Chinese official media's propaganda. This clearly showing what fake news is.

Source: Simon Shen’s Facebook
https://bit.ly/2wCxIGe

#ChinesePropaganda #GiuseppeRemuzzi #VirusOrigin #Italy #HongKongProtestors

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#NetizensVoice

(Absolutely shameless!) The CCP's mouthpiece is working at full capacity: "Before the outbreak in China, Covid-19 might have already begun spreading in Italy."

The Global Times stated that experts of a well-known medical institution in Italy found that as early as November and December last year, unknown pneumonia that highly resembles Covid-19 might have occurred in Italy.

Numerous of “Little Pink” (people who support and/or embrace the CCP) then left messages saying "it turns out that the United States was the culprit by spreading the virus and it has nothing to do with China", "Will Italy apologize to China?"

This is why China is disgraceful. It is clear that the Wuhan Coronavirus invaded the whole world but China kept pointing its finger to other countries and lied about the truth!

This fully reflects what a "Chinese virus" really is!

Image: Global Times Weibo
https://m.weibo.cn/status/4484967335326655

Source: 華爾街狠人 Facebook, (21-Mar)
shorturl.at/jpJ18

Further reading:
China uses an Italian doctor’s speech to propaganda
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18972

#ChinesePropaganda #VirusOrigin #Italy #Coronavirus #ChinaLiedPeopleDied #GlobalTimes
#Newspaper #ChinesePropaganda
Chinese Propaganda: Virus Originates from Europe or US? 1/2

On 29 Jan, when Italy detected and isolated its first corona virus cases – two Chinese tourists, 66 & 67 years old couple from Hubei, felt sick at hotel in Rome on 30 Jan and were sent to local hospital to diagnose and receive treatment. Until a 38 years old Italian was confirmed with corona virus in the north of Italy, the country realized the severity of the epidemic and became one of the world’s first to cut transport links with China.

Professor Giuseppe Remuzzi, Director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, said in an interview last week that local doctors 'remember having seen very strange pneumonias [sic], very severe, particularly among old people, in December and even in November.'

Beijing is now rejecting the widely held assessment that the city of Wuhan is the birthplace of the global outbreak, Chinese media outlets have linked the origin of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy after Professor Remuzzi’s statement.

Later, the professor said Beijing’s attempts to twist his words to suggest the coronavirus originated in Italy was a textbook example of “propaganda”. He told the American news organisation NPR: '(My statement) means that the virus was circulating at least in Lombardy before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.'

Source: Apple Daily #Mar24

Further reading:
How Italy became the ground zero of Europe’s coronavirus crisis
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-italy
The CCP's mouthpiece is working at full capacity
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18990

#VirusOrigin
#Analysis #ChingCheong

Will CCP truthfully accept international community inspection?

We can explore the issue from three perspectives.

It was just a show

//Dr Bruce Aylward slipped of his tongue that they had not visited the dirty district of Wuhan. (note 1) Therefore, the WHO group and their so-called report was a mere formality.

WHO’s report was written to fit CCP’s notion

//did not allow mentioning anything about the possibility of second wave of outbreak... the report did not point out CCP covered up the outbreak of the epidemics and suppressed people who disclosed the truth of the reality.

//this was not a negligence but a deliberate avoidance of Wuhan in order not to embarrass PRC.

CCP wants to make use of the authority of WHO and the report from the investigation team to legitimise their own official notion about the epidemics


1. The covid-19 is a ‘natural’ product and not ‘artificially synthesised’

//The report did not mention a word about the suspicious concerns relating to P4 lab at Wuhan from the international community and the role of the lab in this incident.

2. The virus is not mutated

//It is important as to whether there is any mutation of the virus because it implies whether somebody is developing biological weapons.

//The problem is that the strains were provided by CCP and therefore totally controlled by whatever CCP wanted to provide.

3. WHO helps to sell CCP propaganda of “China experience” in ‘combating’ the pandemics

//they do not only ruin their own reputation, they have become an accomplice of the pandemics.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Will-CCP-truthfully-accept-international-community-inspection-04-04

Excerpt: HKCNews, (4-Mar, updated on 4-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2V0hlLU

#WHO #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #VirusOrigin #BruceAylward #Censorship #SharpPower #Wuhan
#Rumour

Messages from a Wuhan Netizen

Editor’s note: A Taiwanese netizen published a post regarding the origin of the virus on PTT. The post includes a series of screenshots which were from a person living in Wuhan.

(16 Apr) To ensure safety, I won’t use internet censorship circumvention on my computer. I can only use my phone to take pictures on the screen. The image resolution will be low for sure. I will try my best to let you read it clearly.

Around 20 Dec 2019, I read the news of suspected SARS epidemic in Wuhan through Taiwan and International media. (At that time, I didn’t know it was a SARS related virus with a higher threat) I started to be aware of this situation every day. 

On 30 and 31 Dec 2019, I knew that Dr. Li Min Liang as a representative of 8 other doctors were all arrested. The international media also reported a hospital at Hàn Kǒu Jīn Yín Tán in Hubei was overcrowded; Then, I went to buy masks.

I lived in the small community nearby Shí Pái Lǐng in Wuchang. Walk towards the south along the road around a few thousand meters is South Lake District. If you walk a few thousand meters more, you will arrive in Jiang Xia district. The laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology is located in Jin Long Main Street, Jiang Xia.

//The nearest hospital from my house is the People’s Liberation Army’s General Hospital of Central Theater Command. It is opened to the public and located around 20 minutes walk from my residence. After I bought my masks, I didn’t go straight to my house. Instead, I walked to the hospital. In these 20 minutes, there were 3 ambulances with the siren on passed by and 2 of them were labelled as “Jiang Xia First Aid Center”//

Full translation: https://telegra.ph/Messages-from-a-Wuhan-Netizen-04-27

Source: Taiwan PTT (bardah2c)
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1587020308.A.8AD.html

#Wuhan #VirusOrigin #P4Lab #Coronavirus
#Newspaper

Trump considers retaliation against China and the WHO after claiming that he has seen evidence that proves the virus originated from a Chinese lab

//Despite warnings from scientists and intelligence professionals that the US may never know the precise origin of the virus...Trump officials have been pushing the US intelligence community to determine the exact origins of the coronavirus outbreak

//The intelligence community made clear Thursday that they have not reached a definitive conclusion beyond ruling out theories that the virus was man-made or genetically modified

//President Donald Trump claimed that he has seen evidence that gives him a "high degree of confidence" the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but declined to provide details to back up his assertion

//The president continues to deflect blame for the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., claiming it would have been less severe if Beijing were more forthcoming with the severity of the virus in China toward the end of last year

//He has also suggested that China compensate the U.S., and possibly other countries, for coronavirus damages

Full Articles: Daily Mail UK & CNN Politics
http://dailym.ai/3foFkxN
https://cnn.it/2KWCodo

#coronavirus #China #WHO #Trump #VirusOrigin
Chinese propaganda 1/2 : Did the CCP manipulate Google search results to spread their propaganda more effectively?

This page shows the top results regarding French Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier (who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on HIV) said in an interview with the French channel CNews. Professor Montagnier claims that the virus came out of a lab in Wuhan, which had been specializing in these types of coronaviruses since the beginning of the 2000s. He is not the first person who suggested this.

Source: Google

#Google #VirusOrigin #LucMontagnier
Chinese propaganda 2/2: CCP created fake news claiming “COVID-19 was not lab-made” by altering Nobel prize winner, Luc Montagnier’s statement

Editor’s Note: From google search results, we can see french news has reported that the Nobel Prize winner, Luc Montagnier, says COVID-19 was man-made. However, CCP altered the original France sources, in the same way, that they put words into Italian scientist's mouths regarding the source of COVID-19, through their State Controlled media Xinhuanet, by spreading another version that the "French experts" said that COVID-19 virus was not created in a lab. Xinhuanet's fake news was listed as a very prominent searched display as shown. The question is: Have key search engine providers like Google been manipulated, influenced or even paid for altering their search results for the CCP?

Source: Google, (29-Apr)
bit.ly/2Wr4fb1

#Chinesepropaganda #fakenews #VirusOrigin #LucMontagnier
#Newspaper

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson joined the war of words on the origin of the COVID-19 Urging Pompeo to hire experts to investigate when the virus first appears in the US.

(29 Apr)The US government has publicly accused China of concealing the Wuhan Pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic a few times, while China has continuously responded to the US accusations through the diplomatic "war wolf." Earlier, Zhao, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of China, claimed that the virus first appeared in the US and was brought to China by the US army. Recently, Hua, another spokesperson, repeatedly targeted Pompeo in her speech, urging US experts to look into when the deadly virus first appeared in the US, as US citizens have the right to know.

Since Wuhan Pneumonia started spreading in the United States, US Secretary Pompeo has criticized China for concealing the epidemic several times, be it in public speeches or during media interviews. Recently, he again called on China to be more transparent in the investigation of the origin of the virus.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Hua Chunying, has also targeted Pompeo in her recent speeches. In her tweet on Apr 27, Hua said Pompeo was accusing China of concealing the epidemic again in an interview with Fox and asked who is out there spreading false information. Hua also urged Pompeo to stop playing political tricks to save energy for saving lives.

Today, Hua retweeted Pompeo's tweet of requesting China to be more open and transparent in the investigation of the origin of the virus as US experts aren't allowed to investigate in China. Hua replied that "CPC is open, transparent & responsible in #COVID19 response. 2 US experts were in China on WHO-China joint mission in late Jan". Hua also countered Pompeo's query by stating that US experts should investigate when the virus first appeared in the US because Americans need to know and the world also has the right to know.

Source: Radio Taiwan International
bit.ly/2YR2OWa

#US #Coronavirus #ConcealEpidemic #VirusOrigin #Investigation #Pompeo #Twitter #HuaChunying
#NetizensVoice

Credit of Wen Wei Po

Pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po is found to be spreading rumours about the origins of COVID-19. From a screen capture of an article that has been taken down, Wen Wei Po claimed that SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that caused COVID-19, was brought into Wuhan through the US military. In fact, most people within China, as well as people who are pro-Beijing and pro-establishment in Hong Kong, are all indoctrinated with the idea that the virus is intentionally spread by the US.

Why would Wen Wei Po take down the article if it’s trustworthy?

Can we trust other articles that Wen Wei Po publishes, especially those labeled as “truth”?

Carrie Lam has given an exclusive interview for Wen Wei Po just recently. It is hard to imagine that Wen Wei Po is more than just the CCP’s propaganda machine.

Source: LIHKG
https://lihkg.com/thread/2025275/page/1

#ChinesePropaganda #VirusOrigin #US #Coronavirus #WenWeiPo