Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Gray Area Warfare?

I expressed my belief that China must have contained the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic in China because I found it hard to believe that they could hide it this long--and news really can leak out--if it was still ravaging China the way it is in the West. What does it say about the Chinese Communist Party if that is true?

I heard somebody note something that should have been obvious. Isn't China's failure to share how they contained it while the rest of the world struggles to cope close to an act of war? I asked early in November:

Could China's boasting about containing the Covid epidemic in China backfire? Well, I can't read the article. But from my point of view China's boasting about "containing" the Xi Jinping Flu should be undermined by the fact that they did not contain it. China in fact unleashed it on the world. If China was capable of containing it within China as the Chinese Communist Party boasts, why couldn't they prevent it from spreading to the world? Because if China was capable of containing the virus, China's failure to contain it makes it look like biological warfare aimed at the rest of the world. 
And I asked a week later:

China is blocking WHO from investigating the origins of the Xi Jinping Flu (a.k.a. Wuhan Flue, a.k.a. China Virus) pandemic. Given that people are speculating that China will exploit this pandemic to increase their power, how different is this effect from a deliberate attack? Perhaps the world should tell China that until proven otherwise the world is going to assume this was a biological warfare attack on the rest of the world.

Which referenced my earlier question in March of how a deliberate attack would look different than what we've experienced:

How ruthless are the Chinese Communist Party rulers? And does that mean the world need to monitor disease eruption and spread within China much more intensively, whether China's rulers cooperate or not?

Lots of disease comes out of China. That has long been the norm. Lots of people and lots of animals living very close provide many opportunities for animal viruses to mutate and leap to people.

The Wuhan Flu makes me wonder if the Chinese Communist Party would ever consider using this transmission route as a way to wage biological warfare on the world if the CCP thought its grip on China was slipping?

I don't believe this virus is deliberate, to be clear. I'm just wondering whether a CCP only interested in its control of China would sacrifice a whole lot of their own people to use them as the means to attack rivals and enemies abroad. Human wave attacks in a biological war, so to speak.

Or even to suppress domestic unrest. Hong Kong is certainly quieter during the Wuhan Flu.

If the CCP thought the people were rising up, a nice epidemic would nip that in the bud. And if it spreads abroad, what enemy could exploit the epidemic within China?  The well connected and loyal CCP people could be protected.

Just an accidental "normal" epidemic combined with CCP secrecy means we need to monitor China much more thoroughly than we have up to now. The chance that disease could be weaponized makes it more important, no?

Eight months later, if China really has mostly solved the pandemic problem that started in China but hasn't shared that information with the rest of the world--and prefers to continue to blame others for the origin, although to be fair, the Chinese Communist Party is a bunch of lying, murderous, evil bastards who lie about everything and not just blaming Italy for being the origin of the Xi Jinping Flu pandemic--should we consider China at war with the rest of the world?

At what point is letting the pandemic ravage the world when China could do something about it indistinguishable from deliberately attacking the world?