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Latest Entrant to the Club (EU)
- The European Union is the latest to state that it will back a resolution at the assembly calling for an independent review.
Call for an Independent International Inquiry
- An independent international inquiry will give China a chance to clear the air with the rest of the world. But the Chinese Communist Party vehemently opposes such a probe, viewing it as a mortal threat.
Why there should be an Inquiry against China?
- It is not the first disease to spread globally from China
- Why hide Information?
- China has clamped down on further research
- Quietly engaged in import of medical gear in January
- Not Allowing people to file cases
Not the first deadly disease to spread globally from China
A Chinese coverup of the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak triggered the world’s first 21st-century pandemic.
Not the first deadly disease to spread globally from China
- Even the WHO agrees on the need for an investigation, with its representative in China saying that knowing the origins of the COVID-19 virus is “very important” to prevent “reoccurrence.”
Why hide Information?
- Why did China stop domestic flights from Wuhan from Jan. 23, yet allowed some international flights to continue operating from there, such as charter flights?
- by the time it locked down Wuhan, about 5 million of its residents, according to the mayor, had already left the city, with an unknown number flying overseas from other Chinese cities.
China has clamped down on further research
- Now, all research will be vetted by the Govt.
- China, significantly, has still not shared any live virus sample with the outside world, “making it impossible to track the disease’s evolution,”
- Pompeo says there is already “enormous evidence” indicating that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab.
Quietly engaged in import of medical gear in January
- China imported PPE kits, masks.
- By the time the virus seriously hit Europe, China had bought up much of the global supply of protective gear, including 56 million respirators and masks in the last week of January alone.
- According to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1, China “intentionally concealed the severity” of the outbreak to facilitate its hoarding.
Not Allowing people to file cases
- Grieving relatives and their lawyers have been threatened by police and volunteers “who tried to thwart the state’s censorship apparatus by preserving reports about the outbreak have disappeared.”
One is inclined to think…
If China was not guilty of any coverup, wouldn’t it be welcoming the growing international calls for an independent inquiry and offering to provide assistance to such a probe? It insists the world must avoid “pointing fingers, demanding accountability and other non-constructive approaches.”
China Must Allow the Probe
If China refuses to join such a probe, it will encourage important economies to start distancing themselves from it, through new tariffs, nontariff barriers, relocation of manufacturing and other policy moves.
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