Wednesday, June 3, 2020

66| EU's Great Betrayal [China - SARS-COV-2-Pathogen - Covid-19]







The diplomatic game of chess is likely to go down to the wire as
China is actively lobbying to escape sanctions and
independent inquiry because the Chinese communist party knows it is
culpable for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic





Earlier this week it appeared that China is on the backfoot as over 100 countries
rallied behind each other to draft a resolution in the 73rd World Health Assembly
to review the response of the World Health Organization in order to draw lessons
from it. 

Interestingly even China backed the proposal which was initially drafted by the
European Union as the world thought that it has taken the first steps to punish
China and the WHO for its sins.  However on a closer look it turns out that yet again
China has managed to fool the world.






Australia has been at the forefront of pushing for an independent investigation into
China and had drafted a proposal which demanded an independent inquiry and
threatened to put China In the dock. 








China lobbied with the European Union to fool the world and embarrass Australia

as the latter's proposal was silently junked and a watered down proposal was drafted
by the European Union which only called for a review of the WHO response in order
to draw lessons from the response much to China's delight. 



The entire world has been fooled by China into thinking that punitive measures havebeen taken by the countries in the 73rd World Health Assembly. 



The seven-page proposal does stress on investigating the origins of the virus but desists from
directly mentioning China or Wuhan.

Chinese Communist Party's mouthpiece Global Times could not contain its happiness as
it claimed that Australia got a slap on the face and openly admitted that EU's resolution
Was sponsored by China and the global community has welcomed it.  



Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said it is a totally different thing from
the so called independent inquiry pushed by the Australian side.


 
Yet again China has been successful in putting out its narrative and needless to say the
proposal which has been signed by over 100 countries is nothing but a hogwash as China
will never sponsor a proposal which can threaten it's narrative.

It is ironical that the European Union which has been arguably worst hit by the

Wuhan virus pandemic is supporting China as it cowers down under Chinese pressure.

As if to rub salt in the wounds the European Union pledged to back the WHO
after US President Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the body if the WHO is
unsuccessful in proving that it is not under Chinese influence.

European Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Virginie Battu-Henriksson said this is
the time for solidarity not the time for finger-pointing or for undermining
multilateral co-operation.

The EU backs the WHO in its efforts to contain and mitigate the Covid-19  outbreak and has already provided additional funding to support these efforts. 





In yet another example which portrays how the EU has been compromised
into serving the interests of China it recently watered down a report about
Beijing state backed disinformation campaign fearing that the Dragon would
retaliate by withholding medical supplies.


The reference to China's disinformation campaign essentially
means China's massive propaganda war to portray itself as a saviour
of the world spreading lies like the US Army spread the novel coronavirus
or scapegoating Italy as a part of Covid-19 origin propaganda or an
unnamed Chinese diplomat meddling in the internal affairs of France in an ugly
undiplomatic manner.  But this particular section was removed by the EU, why
because Beijing strong-armed it and warned the EU officials of unspecified

repercussions and then the EU gave in to the threats to appease the CCP 



Such is the Chinese influence in the European Union that it allowed China
to censor a friendship letter which was co-authored and co-signed by all
European Union ambassadors to China. 













The letter mentioned the outbreak
of the corona virus in China and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world
over the past three months has meant there are pre-existing plans have been
temporary side-tracked. But Beijing's state-run media didn't like it and
China Daily published the letter removing this paragraph about the corona virus
pandemic thereby quoting the European Union selectively.  But the EU
didn't protest and allowed China to impose its will by censoring parts of
the letter. 

Not only did the European Union fail to object but it also consented to
Chinese censorship and manipulation.  Battu-Henriksson said EU
diplomats decided to proceed with the publication with considerable
reluctance.
In retrospect it seems that - the United Kingdom's decision to leave
the European Union was the correct one.

While there are obvious economic and trade benefits by being a part of the EU
but if the institution cannot protect the lives of its citizens and directly panders
to the whims and fancies of China despite the fact that the latter's actions have
created havoc in Europe the institution has lost all credibility and no longer
serves the interests of Europe.

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