Why Is American Media Relaying Chinese Propaganda About The Coronavirus?
The Chinese people don’t buy it, why do we?
“In early March, state-run Xinhua News Agency published, with fanfare, a commentary to the effect that ‘the world should thank China’ for its contributions to the fight against the coronavirus. It claimed that China made huge sacrifices through its lockdowns and various measures, buying time for the world to react.
It is flatly wrong. The deadly virus spread around the world precisely because Chinese tourists unknowingly carried it with them, all while the horrifying reality of the epidemic was being kept under wraps in China.”
— Nikkei Asian Review, Katsuji Nakazawa
I’m a normal person who gathers my news from the internet, local television, and cable news channels. I depend upon journalists to present me with information that’s factual and informative. However, in the past weeks I’ve been hearing something repeated by these sources: praise of China’s handling of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Generally the praise comes in the middle of a sandwich of criticisms for domestic policy in regards to this recent panic. It’s usually in the form of a comment in the nature of “China bought the West time.”
