In response to the ongoing threats from the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. government has introduced a series of sanctions and initiatives to counter the Chinese Communist Party.
The Chinese Communist Party virus (New Coronavirus) Epidemic has plagued the world, killing millions of people. Foreign media revealed that in the early days of the epidemic, former U.S. President Donald Trump was deceived by Xi Jinping‘s phone calls, and it was only when the number of cases in the U.S. began to increase that the U.S. side realized it had been deceived and immediately hit back at the Chinese Communist Party with the phrase “Wuhan virus.
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Exposes Trump’s Earliest Flight Ban to China
On March 4 of this year, the Washington Post published an excerpt from Josh Rogin’s new book “chaos Under Heaven,” revealing that Trump was deceived by Xi Jinping’s phone calls and thus misjudged the Chinese Communist Party’s virus, as described by Trump Administration officials.
The article reveals that on Jan. 14, 2020, the U.S. National Security Council held its first meeting on the Communist virus epidemic spreading across the mainland.
At the Time, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger saw the epidemic coming before anyone else in the White House. But most people in the Trump administration didn’t want to believe what was happening – or at least didn’t want to talk about it.
On Jan. 27, Bomen chaired a formal Cabinet-level meeting with the first or second heads of all relevant agencies. This included then-U.S. health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, CDC Director Robert Redfield, medical expert Anthony Fauci and others.
Bomen wanted to ban travelers from China (shut down travel from China), but no one agreed. They thought he was crazy.
The next morning, Boming spoke with a top Chinese doctor who knew the truth about the epidemic there. Bo Ming asked, “Is this going to be as bad as SARS in 2003?” The doctor replied, “Forget SARS, this is 1918.” He was referring to the deadliest epidemic of the 20th century at the time: a flu outbreak that killed some 50 million people worldwide.
On Jan. 28, then-National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien and Bomen briefed Trump. The two men recommended that Trump immediately ban travelers from China, or anyone who had recently visited China. At the time, every official in the Trump administration opposed the move, even health experts such as Fauci.
In the end Trump supported the recommendations of O’Brien and Bomen.
Publicly available information shows that on January 31, three major U.S. airlines announced the suspension of direct flights between China and the U.S.; on February 2 the U.S. closed its border to China.
Xi phone call cheats Trump U.S. fires back with Wuhan virus claim
On the evening of Feb. 6, Trump and Xi had a lengthy phone call in which they discussed the epidemic in China.
A senior administration official involved in the phone call said that during the conversation, Xi told Trump that he opposed the U.S. decision to deny entry to Chinese flights, the WaPo article revealed. Trump asked Xi to allow (U.S.) CDC officials to enter Wuhan, which was then sealed off from the city. Xi refused and asked Trump not to take any action that would cause further panic, essentially asking him to downplay the threat. Xi also told Trump that the outbreak in China was under control, that the virus was not a threat to the outside world, and that it was temperature sensitive and therefore likely to disappear when the weather warms.
Those were lies, but Trump believed Xi’s words – or wanted to believe them – so much so that inside and outside the White House, Trump started talking about them. “It was a comforting call,” the official said. He interpreted Xi’s message as “there’s nothing to see here, we have the outbreak completely under control, don’t overreact.”
Americans soon heard those words directly from then-President Trump.
At a White House meeting with state governors on Feb. 10, Trump said, “Now we’re talking about a virus that many people believe will go away in April, with the heat.”
The article said that as cases of the CCP virus in the U.S. increased, the Trump team appeared to realize they had been duped and began pointing the finger at the CCP. They said it was important to clarify the origin of the outbreak. But at this stage, the US State Department wanted to blame the Chinese Communist Party without being accused by outsiders that they were inciting racial discrimination against Asians or Asian-Americans. After some deliberation, the Trump administration decided to have then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo use the term “Wuhan virus,” which was considered strong but not too inflammatory.
China’s Communist Party Continues to Threaten Trump, Trump Fights Back
As the number of confirmed cases of the virus in the United States has grown, the Chinese Communist Party has tried to shift responsibility for the worldwide outbreak, rushing to “blame” the United States for the origin of the outbreak, according to public sources.
In March 2020, CCP Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian publicly called out: “It was probably the U.S. military that brought the outbreak to Wuhan. The U.S. wants transparency! Be open about the data! The U.S. owes us an explanation!”
On March 13, Zhao Lijian reprinted another 50 Cent article on Twitter, alleging that the virus originated in the United States, and also urged netizens to read it.
On March 13 the U.S. State Department summoned Cui Tiankai, the Chinese Communist Party’s ambassador to the U.S., to express the U.S. position that it would not tolerate such claims.
On the same day, Trump said at a White House press conference, “They know where it [the virus] came from, we all know where it came from. After this, Trump began using the phrase “Chinese (Communist) virus,” and on March 23, Trump said in a White House press conference that “they know where it (the virus) came from, we all know where it came from.
On March 23, Trump publicly mentioned at a regular White House press conference that he was “a little upset” with the CCP’s lack of cooperation, “They [the Chinese] should have told us about this earlier. I have to tell you honestly, although I like President Xi and admire what they’ve done in a short period of time (to fight the epidemic), I’m a little disappointed in the Chinese side (the Chinese Communist Party).” Trump said.
Relations between the two countries are strained as Communist pneumonia spreads around the world.
A WaPo article revealed that Chinese Communist diplomats have privately threatened U.S. officials with cutting off exports of medical supplies to the United States if Washington is not careful in this war of words.
On March 26, 2020, Trump and Xi spoke again. During this call, Xi again threatened to withhold personal protective equipment if Trump continued to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, the article said. He implicitly told Trump that there was a causal link between the tone of U.S. statements and China’s cooperation.
The U.S. government has introduced a series of sanctions and countermeasures against the Chinese Communist Party in response to its ongoing threats. Trump has also repeatedly said he wants to sever ties with the CCP. A growing number of U.S. dignitaries have also made clear distinctions between “China” and “the Chinese Communist Party” in their public statements.
Speaking to the media at the White House on April 30 as he announced his plan to care for the elderly, Trump said the first phase of a trade deal was signed in mid-January, resolving the long-standing U.S.-China trade deficit. …… Everyone was satisfied.
“And then, all of a sudden, the (Chinese Communist Party) virus came and something unacceptable happened (meaning the Communist Party underreported) … something that dramatically changed my view (of Xi Jinping), because the whole thing has been very different.” Trump said.
It was the first time Trump said the CCP virus had changed his view of Xi. Trump then continued to criticize the Chinese Communist Party for concealing the outbreak, and U.S.-China relations continued to deteriorate.
On May 13, Trump tweeted, “I’ve been saying for a long time that dealing with China (the Chinese Communist Party) is a very time consuming (expensive) thing to do. We just made a big trade deal and before the ink is dry, the world is hit with a plague from China. 100 trade deals won’t make up for the damage – all the innocent lives lost!”
Trump told Fox Business on May 14 that “we can cut off the whole relationship [with the Chinese Communist Party].” It was one of the strongest comments ever made by Trump against U.S.-China relations since he took office.
When asked if he had spoken to Xi, Trump said he has a good relationship with Xi. “But I just – right now, I don’t want to talk to him. I don’t want to talk to him.”
Trump again warned that the U.S. “would save $500 billion” if it cut ties with Beijing altogether.
On the evening of May 20, Trump tweeted, “The speaker foolishly spoke on behalf of China [the Chinese Communist Party] in a desperate attempt to distract from the pain and carnage his country has inflicted on the world. Its disinformation campaigns and attacks on the U.S. and Europe are a disgrace.”
Trump also said the plague came from the incompetence of the Communist Party’s top brass and that “everything came from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but that’s not what happened!”
On May 29, Trump said in a speech in the White House Rose Garden that he would rescind special U.S. treatment for Hong Kong.
In a public speech on June 24, O’Brien also said that Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, “sees himself as the successor to Josef Stalin” and that Xi’s mind-control ambitions are not limited to the Chinese people, but also to reshaping the world.
On July 16, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a speech on Chinese (Communist) policy. In his speech, he mentioned “the Chinese Communist Party” 24 times and “the Communist Party” or “the Chinese Communist Party” a total of 19 times, completely confusing “China” with “the Chinese Communist Party. He made a complete distinction between “China” and “the Chinese Communist Party.
On July 19, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in a media interview that the Chinese Communist Party was a top strategic competitor of the United States, and that the United States was not worried about the rise of China, but was concerned about a “rising China under Chinese Communist rule.
At the same time, the U.S. is gradually referring to Xi Jinping as “General Secretary” instead of “President.
In a July 21 meeting with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Pompeo said, “The Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of this disaster to promote its own interests is shameful. Instead of offering help to the world, General Secretary Xi Jinping has shown the world what the party is really like.”
On July 23, Pompeo again referred to Xi Jinping as the “general secretary” of the Communist Party in a major speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California titled “Communist China and the Future of the Free World.
Pompeo said, “The Chinese Communist regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.”
This is the second senior U.S. official to speak so negatively about Xi Jinping.
In October, the USCIS issued policy guidance that re-emphasized that Communist Party members are not allowed to apply for immigration.
On December 3, the U.S. State Department announced that it was restricting travel to the United States by Communist Party members and their immediate Family members, reducing the validity of travel visas for Communist Party members and their families from ten years of multiple round trips to one month and a single trip, effective immediately.
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