The New Coronavirus is wreaking havoc around the world right now, as the online meeting of the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland opens on Jan. 25. For more than a year, China’s identity in the global Epidemic has quietly shifted from being the country of origin of the epidemic to being a successful anti-epidemic power. As countries look to China for both vaccines and experience in fighting the epidemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s speech was the focus of heavy coverage by the world’s mainstream media. According to the Chinese government, Wuhan pneumonia is not a testament to China’s weaknesses, but a reflection of its strengths.
China’s “Time and Momentum” in a Fantastic Shift
Currently, major countries around the world are once again caught up in the second wave of the New Coronavirus epidemic, with the UK variant being more deadly. Although the outbreak in China is also very serious, the world is pinning its hopes on China to fight the epidemic. The WHO’s high praise for China’s fight against the epidemic played a role, in addition to its effective control of deaths and epidemic data. The AFP report represents the world’s dominant view on the issue: China’s economy appears to be surviving the impact of the new pneumonia epidemic, but the world is still not out of the quagmire.
In one year, China has gone from being the birthplace of the epidemic to being the backbone of the world’s fight against it, an important element of Xi Jinping’s conclusion that “the time and the situation are on our side”. This miraculous transformation is due to three major factors: first, the reliance on a propaganda model under the control of the powerful; second, the quarantine approach under the control of the powerful; and third, the production and supply of vaccines.
The success of Chinese propaganda in the international community
The government initially hid the epidemic, which was an open secret known to the world; then it used the shortage of epidemic prevention materials, such as the need for masks and testing agents in various countries, to silence the countries in need and dared not criticize; then after the WHO’s multiple praise packages, China became the most successful and responsible epidemic fighting power in the world, and the world owed China an apology. As months passed, it was as if the world had forgotten that China was the source of the epidemic, and many countries had developed an anti-epidemic dependency on China.
With the introduction of the vaccine, by 2021, the CCP has absolute control of the epidemic narrative not only within China, but also internationally. Not to mention the English-language media that the CCP explicitly and implicitly funds, Twitter, for example, has dozens of tweets from “dissidents” with close ties to the Chinese government, tirelessly promoting the failure of the Trump administration to fight the epidemic in the United States, with some emphasizing the success of China’s fight against the epidemic as a major part of such tweets, in addition to the fact that the virus came from the United States. The propaganda content. The memory of the horror of the city’s closure during the Wuhan virus has long since faded, and anyone rehashing Wuhan pneumonia is sure to be met with loud protests from a water army.
On January 25, the New York Times published an article, “How Beijing Turned the New Crown Tragedy into a ‘Chinese Advantage,'” in which it acknowledged the success of Beijing’s outbreak propaganda: “The tragedy has shown that Beijing’s ability to control what the Chinese people see, hear and think exceeds even the most pessimistic predictions. The CCP has shown that it has the tools to bring people together in the next crisis – be it a disaster, war or financial crisis – no matter how poorly Beijing performs.”
China’s quarantine approach is considered a successful model
When the epidemic first started in 2020, Wuhan was closed to public opinion around the world, and the U.S. mainstream media was unanimous in its criticism of human rights violations. In many parts of the U.S., it was impossible to even return Home from an infected area to quarantine. Italian youth also began a kissing campaign as a protest against the country’s government quarantine measures.
But by March 2020, with the new coronavirus raging in Europe and the United States, the outbreak appeared to be under control as the Chinese government announced decreasing numbers of confirmed cases, and the WHO continued to offer words of recognition and praise for China’s antiepidemic practices that other countries could learn from. However, it is not easy for most countries to follow the Chinese style of “massive city closures”, as they do not have the enforcement power of the Chinese regime, but also involve economic, social and human rights issues, and therefore are not applicable everywhere.
On April 29 of the same year, the international medical journal The Lancet published online a correspondence article entitled “Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak” by the authors from the National University of Singapore’s Surreyford School of Public health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The authors compared the impact of home-based isolation, which is used in most European and American countries, and Chinese centralized isolation on the spread of the outbreak, and concluded that Chinese centralized isolation could reduce new crown infections by an additional 37% compared to home-based isolation. The authors of the article urge countries with a disproportionate health care burden to take preventive and control measures with reference to centralized isolation.
The Lancet published this article to do justice to Chinese isolation, and since then, Western countries suffering from the epidemic have largely refrained from criticizing China’s model for fighting the epidemic, instead hoping from time to time that their countries would learn from it. The Associated Press published an article on October 29, 2020, saying that no one is innocent in this epidemic crisis in the United States, which has lasted for nearly eight months: government officials at all levels have made serious mistakes and wasted the most valuable time and opportunities in the epidemic prevention and control process. Dr. Irwin Redlener, a medical expert at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, commented that the inconsistent response across the U.S. was “really frustrating,” and that even if the U.S. couldn’t do a “China-style city closure,” it should at least learn from the Chinese. Even if the U.S. can’t do a “China-style closure,” it should at least follow Canada‘s lead and proceed with caution when reopening.
Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist and head of the WHO expert group that visited China, even praised China’s quarantine approach as “the only one in the world that has been proven to work. The Western media asked him at the time if the Chinese approach was not a violation of human rights. Aylward replied, “No, it’s great humanitarianism.”
Thus, the closure of Wuhan, China, and the blockade of neighborhoods around the country became the envy of the West, but not the way to emulate it.
China’s vaccine diplomacy: control of the world’s vaccine supply
In September 2020, WHO, the Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI), and the Consortium for Epidemic Prevention Innovation (CEPI) took the lead in establishing the New Crown Vaccine Assurance Mechanism (Covax, translated as “New Crown Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Program” in China). China officially joined the New Coronavirus Vaccine Implementation Program on October 8. The program provides vaccine funding to 92 low- and middle-income economies. When China joined the program, Zheng Zhongwei, head of the vaccine research and development task force of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Scientific Research and Development Working Group, said that China’s annual vaccine production capacity is expected to reach 610 million doses by the end of the year and 1 billion doses by 2021. Vaccination is met by stratification of high-risk groups, high-risk groups and general population. At that time, more than 40 countries have already submitted procurement requests to Chinese companies for the new crown vaccine.
With the supply of the vaccine in hand, the Chinese government was in a much better position, and with the exception of the Trump Administration in the United States, there was essentially no more talk of tracing the source of the virus from any country. The Health Code system, pioneered and strongly advocated by China, is poised to be adopted and rolled out worldwide by the Great Reset Program, and if successful, the health code will become an important “proof of identity” for international population movements.
WHO’s Role in China’s Fantastic Shift in Time
In the last three months, several more infectious strains of COVID-19 have emerged in the world, such as the British strain, the South African strain, and the Brazilian strain. According to the WHO announcement on January 24, 219 countries and regions outside of China have cases of infection, and the number of cumulative infections with more than 1,000 cases has reached 168. Among them, the United States has accumulated about 25.12 million cases of infection, the world’s largest; India exceeds 10.66 million cases and Brazil exceeds 8.84 million cases, the second and third.
On January 14, the WHO investigation team arrived in Wuhan to begin a 14-day quarantine against the epidemic, spending the anniversary of Wuhan’s closure on January 23 in isolation. According to the Voice of America (VOA), the much-criticized response performance of the Chinese authorities and WHO at the beginning of the outbreak, as well as the complex and delicate relationship between WHO and Beijing, are once again in the spotlight of world public opinion.
In the current international environment, it is very difficult to track down the truth about the source of the virus. Yet another fact is clear: China’s international position as the source of the outbreak has not only not been weakened, but has been somewhat strengthened. This is evident from the high regard and courtesy given to Xi Jinping at the World Economic Forum just held in Davos by the Great Reset Command. The new epidemic has weakened the U.S. position and intensified political strife in the U.S. on the one hand, but made China’s time and momentum on the other, a peculiar enough phenomenon to be a key to interpreting the reversal of the global trend.
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