Gordon Chang, Asia Analyst, says that China released this virus deliberately, and that they will do it again. True? False?

He says that first the Chinese lied, deliberately, about human to human transmission, and they closed their own borders, yet allowed infected Chinese citizens to fly all over the world. THEN they applied pressure to all the countries who wanted to close their borders, stating that only xenophobia would cause countries to do so, so many borders remained open long after infected travelers from China should have been excluded.

In effect, these actions spread what could have been a localized epidemic, and caused a pandemic.

Gordon Chang believes China was doing this to weaken worldwide economies so that they can become THE dominating world power.

He says they WILL do this again.

If they release even one more virus on the world, is there any hope of HUMAN survival?

What are your opinions?

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Mamapolo2016 · F

I don't know anything about Gordon Chang.

I do know that not many scholarly pieces about geopolitics get read by many people who are not geopolitical geeks (not a disparaging term).

That makes me skeptical about writers who become media darlings. The only way you get to be a media darling is by writing things that make half the world furious and make the other half do a fist pump and yell "Yesssss!"

It's a TV sitcom vs Shakespearean comedy.

It may be true this happened accidentally and the Chinese ruling party looked at their lemons and decided to make lemonade.

I don't know - and at this juncture I don't think anyone does know.

4meAndyou · F

@Mamapolo2016 If he is right, and if they release another virus, do you believe we are in any way ready for it?

Mamapolo2016 · F

@4meAndyou [b][i]If[/i][/b] he is right, and [b]if[/b] they "release another virus" I think we will be readier than we were this time, in terms of experience.

We would act more quickly and decisively. I think. I hope.

And I suspect the rest of the world, not only the US, would regard another "accidental slip-up" in a lab in the near future as an act of war.

4meAndyou · F

@Mamapolo2016 Exactly.