U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been isolated from a novel Coronavirus 2019 infected patient and tested negative for the virus, the State Department said in a statement Tuesday. With the outcome of the US presidential election still unclear, news about us politicians has attracted particular attention in China. The topic of “Pompeo begins quarantine” quickly became the second most searched topic on Weibo, but paradoxically, weibo is suspected of taking down news related to the epidemic in China, which has been listed as the most searched topic in recent days. As of press time, only one of the top 50 hottest searches on Weibo was related to the epidemic in China.
On the evening of December 16, several media outlets reported that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been quarantined after contacting a person diagnosed with pneumonia in Wuhan. Reuters quoted a U.S. State Department judge as saying on December 16 that the department’s medical team was closely monitoring Pompeo’s health, but declined to identify the person he had been in contact with for privacy reasons. The spokesman also did not say when or where Pompeo had contact with the confirmed person.
The Washington Post reported that Pompeo canceled a live speech at an indoor holiday party scheduled for Saturday at the State Department. CNBC, a business channel, reported that U.S. President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting at 11:30 a.m. Monday, and it was not immediately clear whether Pompeo attended.
Official and party media have also reported the news in the form of flash reports, and the topic has become a hot search on Weibo. The “Pompeo Begins quarantine” topic has been read by 150 million people as of The 17th, and has been discussed 4689. By contrast, most people are watching “Pompeo quarantine” without comment.
Some netizens left comments below the Communist Party’s official Global Times newspaper gloating over Pompeo’s quarantine, saying he had quarantined before he could get a vaccine. Netizens to retort that “own a hot water when the keyboard, still worry about other people”, “a person to see the comments some cheer, I will think about to cut the eggshell girl fangfang tongue, don’t know when to curse others, ever thought you would have to”, “peng admire Mr Isolation, ChuanHang suifenhe outbreak of isolation”.
A reporter from Voice of Hope searched 50 popular microblog searches at noon on The 17th, and found that there was indeed no information related to the epidemic in China. Before that, there were one or two COVID-19 stories in the top 10, and even more in the top 50, almost every day. “The authorities are trying to hype up the quarantine of foreign leaders to distract from the fact that there are outbreaks in many parts of the country,” said one user on overseas social media twitter. This is a common tactic used by the Communist Party of China, but unfortunately some people still can’t read it.”
French President Emmanuel Macron has been confirmed to be infected with Wuhan pneumonia, the Elysee Palace said in a statement late Wednesday (Beijing time). The news was also listed as the second most popular search on Weibo, while the epidemic in China ranked 14th in the most popular search except for the two new asymptomatic cases in Liaoning province. The rest of the cases were not included in the most popular search.
When the Party is under pressure, it has a habit of looking the other way. An outbreak of the virus broke out in Wuhan last year, but it spread quickly around the world because of a cover-up by the communist party authorities. Many countries, faced with economic collapse and life disruption, have taken responsibility for the Communist Party of China. China was also in chaos: during the siege of Wuhan, the city was besieged by human disasters, and people angrily rebelled and sued the wuhan authorities. Citizen journalists risk their lives to spread the truth overseas; Scholars and the Second Red Dynasty rose up in rebellion to write detailed accounts of the communist Party’s heinous crimes. The pressure on the Chinese authorities increased sharply, but as the epidemic spread abroad, the Communist Party began to do extensive and elaborate reporting, comparing the number of deaths in China with those abroad, to make Chinese people grateful to the government, but not to mention the death toll. In all its propaganda, many Chinese people forget that it is the COMMUNIST Party that has brought disaster to the world by making innocent Chinese pay the price.
On March 4, the Communist Party’s official Xinhua News Agency published an article titled “The World Owes China a Debt of Thanks for Standing firm,” which was widely reprinted in state media. “The United States owes China an apology and the world owes China a thank you,” it said. “Without China’s tremendous sacrifice and dedication, the world could not have won a precious window of time for the world to fight COVID-19.”
Hong Kong media said in the commentary, this article completely ignored the outbreak originated in hubei wuhan, but also because the local bureaucrats at the beginning of the outbreak of fonds incompetence, outbreak alert system defects, only the most basic facts of epidemic spread in the world, is simply putting the cart before the horse, argue irrationally, mistakes, forced analogy, contradiction, even openly published into the official media, is really strange.
Hu Ping, honorary editor of Beijing Spring, said there were a number of undeniable facts showing that the outbreak was a man-made disaster of Beijing’s making, including the CCP regime’s tight information blockade and misleading propaganda on the outbreak in Wuhan in the first place. But The Chinese authorities, led by President Xi Jinping, have been trying to shake off responsibility by portraying the outbreak as a purely natural disaster, rather than a man-made disaster caused by the communist party’s dictatorship of information denial, epidemic concealment and misleading propaganda.
Hu pointed out that the Chinese communist Party is in such a hurry to avert its eyes because the authorities know that Xi Jinping is now being “widely blamed”. To avoid this, the authorities have resorted to “defensive to offensive” tactics, shifting the conversation first, diverting attention to other issues. This allowed Mr Xi to avoid responsibility, to be forgotten and to deflect blame.
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