"Restoring distorted facts" Observations of a Chinese diplomat stationed in Paris​ 2020/04/12​

"Restoring distorted facts" Observations of a Chinese diplomat stationed in Paris​

2020/04/12​

On April 8, after 76 days in solitary confinement, Wuhan's confinement order was finally lifted, bringing its residents everywhere to the streets to celebrate their return to normal life. At the start of the fight against the epidemic, Chinese leaders proudly proclaimed "the victory of Wuhan, will be the victory of Hubei." The victory of Hubei, will be the victory of the Nation ». Thus, the deconfinement of Wuhan shows that China emerged victorious from its fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

However, it is more of a stage victory than a total victory because, at the same time, today abroad, the epidemic continues its mad race with 1.66 million people infected worldwide , with 5 countries with more than 100,000 cases, including 500,000 cases in the United States and 4 countries with more than 10,000 deaths. The terrible devastation caused by the development of this scourge on the lives and health of the affected populations, as well as on their societies and economies, inspires us with concern and compassion. Our wish is that all the countries of the world join their efforts to fight together against this common enemy and to triumph over it as soon as possible.

And yet, at a time when the whole world is mobilizing against the epidemic, the media which take themselves for paragons of impartiality and objectivity, experts and politicians from certain Western countries seem more concerned with slandering, stigmatize and attack China than think about how to contain the epidemic at home and in the rest of the world. China's victory over the epidemic makes them bitter. With their fabricated theses, that China has "been slow to react" and "hid the truth", they present it as the main responsible for the pandemic, and its victory over the coronavirus is made to appear as an abominable crime. However, whether Western countries have underestimated the severity of the virus or have been slow to take ad hoc measures, thus making the epidemic uncontrollable, causing them no problem of conscience and in no way disturbing their sleep. Some media and analysts have repeatedly pointed out that China had initially lost "three precious weeks", arguing, "If the Chinese authorities had reacted three weeks earlier, they could have significantly limited global spread virus and 95% contamination could have been prevented. " they could have considerably limited the worldwide spread of the virus and 95% of contamination could have been avoided. " they could have considerably limited the worldwide spread of the virus and 95% of contamination could have been avoided. "

Notwithstanding the fact that scientists needed time to study and understand this previously completely unknown coronavirus, let's take a closer look at what China did during these first three weeks: As of December 30, we were publicly reporting cases of unknown pneumonia. From January 3, we kept WHO and the world regularly informed about the progression of the disease and, in record time, we managed to identify the pathogen. On January 11, we shared with WHO the complete sequencing of the virus genome. On January 23, when Wuhan closed, there were more than 800 infected people in China and only 9 overseas. However, it was more than a month after this date that the epidemic started in Europe and the United States.

If after doing so much in the first three weeks, you still consider that "China has dragged on", what did the Europeans and the Americans do for the two months following the first report of China and a month after the closure of Wuhan? Their leaders declared that it was only a "flu", that there was no need to worry, that the virus struck only the Yellows and that in fact, the risk of seeing it circulating in their country was minimal. Their media and experts, while indulging in the blind serenity of their countries, worked to defame China, to make fun of it with good jokes and to hope for it a "Chernobyl effect". On the other hand, no one was found to reflect on measures to combat the epidemic or the supply of essential medical equipment to avoid being caught short. The Editor-in-Chief of the British magazine The Lancet described British health prevention measures as a "national scandal". Recently, the President of the European Research Council (ERC), Mauro Ferrari, declared "to have lost faith in the European system of management of the pandemic and resigned with resounding noise.

Media and experts have accused China of hiding the real figures of the pandemic. According to them, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, how can we believe that it had only about 80,000 people infected and only a little over 3000 deaths! They concluded that China must have lied. And yet if China has obtained this result, it is neither by lying nor by concealment, but because the Chinese government has taken the most comprehensive, rigorous and strict prevention and control measures. to detect, report, isolate and treat contaminated people with maximum responsiveness, with the primary concern of preserving the life and health of its population. China has not been afraid to cut its GDP by thousands of billions of yuan.

At the same time, in the West, we have seen politicians tearing themselves apart to recover votes; advocate group immunization, thus abandoning their citizens alone in the face of the viral massacre; to shirk medical supplies; resell to private structures the equipment purchased with public money to enrich themselves personally; residents of retirement homes were made to sign "Emergency Care Waiver" certificates; the nursing staff of EHPADs abandoned their positions overnight, deserted collectively, leaving their residents to die of hunger and disease; the Commander of an aircraft carrier was seen asking his superiors for permission to dock to allow infected seafarers to be treated ashore. He was sacked ..., and so on. And yet, I have not seen many reports or in-depth investigations by the main Western media revealing these facts. Do these media and these experts, so fond of objectivity and impartiality, have a conscience? Do they have ethics?

To belittle China's efforts, some Western politicians and media have pointed to the WHO, accusing it of being too pro-Chinese. Some have even called for the Organization's sources of funding to be cut. Since the start of the epidemic, China has cooperated closely with the WHO. It informed it without delay and invited its experts to go on mission for field visits. The Organization praised China's actions and its results in fighting the epidemic. She even claimed that the Chinese approach was a new benchmark for the world. This was an objective and impartial assessment. However, WHO has been the subject of a real siege on the part of Western countries, some even launch ad-hominem attacks against its Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Taiwanese authorities, supported by more than 80 French parliamentarians in a co-signed declaration, even used the word "negro" to attack him. I still do not understand what could have gone through the heads of all these French elected representatives.

The Western Chinese media always attack us with the same two methods: first by inventing lies, then hammering them relentlessly. Are they afraid of being denied? Not at all, because the "short, barely dropped" lie. Even if it ends up being discovered, the rumor, like a virus, has already spread around the world. And to give it body, they repeat them in a loop, like a broken record. “A lie repeated 1000 times becomes a truth. This is their creed and their modus operandi. In their rehashed lies, China, which has succeeded in overcoming the epidemic by safeguarding the primary interests of its people, passes for "sinfulness". As for the politicians, the journalists stationed in China, the poor "sinologists" of certain Western countries who have carried out repeated lootings.

One cyber-writer once said something very profound: “When the cuttlefish is in danger, it spits its ink to blacken the water and takes advantage of it to flee. It is a tactic well known to certain Western political and cultural elites. They simply wanted to blame China for their own inability to cope with the epidemic and the multiple tragedies that followed, and "whitewash themselves."

As I finish my text, I discover a report on the Net. On April 8, the world-renowned academic journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) published an article co-authored by British and German academics entitled Analysis of the phylogenetic network of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. The first author of the article is Dr. Peter Forster of the University of Cambridge. According to the study, the researchers classified the new coronavirus into three types (A, B and C) according to their evolution. The type A virus is the closest to the viruses extracted from the bat and pangolin. It is the one most frequently identified in infected patients in the United States and Australia. It is what researchers call "the root of the epidemic". Type B strains are variants of type A and are mainly present in China. Those which are widely disseminated in Europe are those of the C type. Alas, it seems that the results of Dr. Peter Forster's research do not interest the main Western media.

Original source in French: http://www.amb-chine.fr/fra/zfzj/t1768712.htm