Fcuk China

[Clarke]

Chor ki daadhi mein tinka 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/18/asia/china-world-health-assembly-investigation-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin once called Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, a "lone warrior."

Putin was joking, but that description is starting to look more and more accurate. Russia has joined about 100 countries in backing a resolution at the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA), calling for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union-drafted resolution comes on the back of a push by Australia for an inquiry into China's initial handling of the crisis.

That was met with an angry response from Beijing, which accused Canberra of a "highly irresponsible" move that could "disrupt international cooperation in fighting the pandemic and goes against people's shared aspiration." 

While the resolution to be presented at the annual meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) members, which begins on Monday in Geneva, does not single out China or any other country, it calls for an "impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" of "the (WHO)-coordinated international health response to Covid-19."

The wording of the resolution is weak compared to Australia's previous calls for a probe into China's role and responsibility in the origin of the pandemic. This may have been necessary to get a majority of WHO member states to sign on -- particularly those, such as Russia, with traditionally strong ties to Beijing.

But that doesn't mean China's government should rest easy. The potential for an independent probe, even one not initially tasked with investigating an individual country's response, to turn up damning or embarrassing information is great. Australian government sources told the ABC, the country's public broadcaster, that the resolution's language was sufficiently strong to "ensure that a proper and thorough investigation took place."

Beijing has previously said it would only support an investigation held by the WHO, which has been accused of being overly influenced by China -- a charge top WHO officials refute.

Speaking last week, China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming said: "We're open, we are transparent, we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear. We welcome an international, independent review, but it has to be organized by the WHO."

With more countries signing on to the EU resolution as the assembly nears, that may be out of China's hands. There were also indications that Beijing may accept the resolution: Chinese state media reported Monday that Xi would deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the WHA, an unlikely move if Beijing was preparing to push back against a key agenda item.

 

Any highly critical report could have a potentially disastrous effect on China's global standing, which has already taken a major knock as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with the United States in particular pushing a narrative that Beijing is to blame for the pandemic.

China has consistently pushed back against any criticism, pointing to a warning given to the WHO in late December about a potential new strain of pneumonia spreading in the city of Wuhan. While the WHO -- and particularly Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus -- have praised China's response, a probe into the organization's initial handling will shine a spotlight on just what information China knew when, and how much was shared with the WHO.

Top officials, including Xi, have admitted to being aware that the infection was spreading even as the Wuhan government was still downplaying its severity and police were detaining whistleblowers. In an interview with CNN on Saturday, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, the Chinese government's senior medical adviser and the public face of the country's fight against Covid-19, said the local authorities "didn't like to tell the truth at that time."

He said: "At the very beginning they kept silent, and then I said probably we have (a larger) number of people being infected."

Zhong added that he became suspicious when the number of officially reported cases in Wuhan remained at 41 for more than 10 days -- despite infections emerging overseas. "I didn't believe that result, so I (kept) asking and then, you have to give me the real number," he said. "I suppose they are very reluctant to answer my question."

The suggestion that knee-jerk censorship or a deliberate coverup by Beijing enabled the virus to spread, first within China and then throughout the world, has been repeatedly and angrily refuted by Chinese officials. But this has nevertheless hurt the country's global standing, with foreign politicians -- particularly in the US but also in parts of Europe and the rest of the world -- referring to the "China virus" or blaming Beijing for the chaos they are now dealing with.

China has come in for plenty of international criticism over the years: on human rights, its aggressive posturing in the South China Sea, and issues of trade and intellectual property. But often that dissent has come from Beijing's traditional rivals, such as the US -- many smaller countries have held their tongues, perhaps to ensure economic ties with China are maintained. However, the virus -- and the corresponding global economic slump -- has opened the door to a wave of criticism and pushback not experienced by Beijing for years.

 

One example of how China's global standing has suffered as a result is another issue that will be on the docket at Monday's WHA meeting: whether to allow Taiwan to join.

The trajectory of Taipei's international reputation during the pandemic has been the reverse of Beijing's. Taiwan has been hailed for its effective response to the virus, and numerous countries have backed the island's government in seeking to rejoin the WHA as an observer, a position it held until 2016, when Beijing forced it out after the traditionally pro-China KMT party lost power in Taiwan.

On Friday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman accused those countries who back Taiwan's participation as seeking "selfish political gains even at the expense of hijacking the WHA and undermining global anti-pandemic cooperation." He predicted that the proposal would be "firmly rejected by the vast majority of the international community."

Fortunately for Beijing, this confidence did not have to be tested. Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Monday that it had agreed to shelve the issue until next year, due to the shortened nature of the current WHA and the pressing issue of the coronavirus pandemic.

[coffee_rules]

There is no Twitter in China, and here is Twitter being ultra-sensitive for China’s sake , they deactivated India’s pride. China hard power defeating India’s soft power

 

 

[Manny_Pacquiao]

24 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

There is no Twitter in China, and here is Twitter being ultra-sensitive for China’s sake , they deactivated India’s pride. China hard power defeating India’s soft power

 

It's actually america's hard power defeating india's feeble attempt at creating soft power.

 

Why doesn't india have its own twitter?

[Jimmy Cliff]

4 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

There is no Twitter in China, and here is Twitter being ultra-sensitive for China’s sake , they deactivated India’s pride. China hard power defeating India’s soft power

 

 

TPTB who control social media are clearly backing China. Same thing happened on Google Play Store where they got rid of "Remove China Apps" and removed negative ratings for Tiktok. Even the BBC's Wuhan documentary was apparently soft on China.

[coffee_rules]

3 hours ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

TPTB who control social media are clearly backing China. Same thing happened on Google Play Store where they got rid of "Remove China Apps" and removed negative ratings for Tiktok. Even the BBC's Wuhan documentary was apparently soft on China.

That is China’s money power doing the talk. We laugh at Pak being China’s bitch, In fact Europe is China’s bitch too. 

[rkt.india]

9 hours ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

TPTB who control social media are clearly backing China. Same thing happened on Google Play Store where they got rid of "Remove China Apps" and removed negative ratings for Tiktok. Even the BBC's Wuhan documentary was apparently soft on China.

TPTB's favour depopulation program and covid is one of the instruments to do that.

[rkt.india]

6 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

That is China’s money power doing the talk. We laugh at Pak being China’s bitch, In fact Europe is China’s bitch too. 

No. It's all about world depopulation program.

[beetle]

11 hours ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

TPTB who control social media are clearly backing China. Same thing happened on Google Play Store where they got rid of "Remove China Apps" and removed negative ratings for Tiktok. Even the BBC's Wuhan documentary was apparently soft on China.

That is why we need our own version of google , twitter and facebook.

[Gollum]

Amul twitter account suspended for this

[Jimmy Cliff]

4 hours ago, rkt.india said:

TPTB's favour depopulation program and covid is one of the instruments to do that.

TPTB are crazy about depopulation but covid is meant to wreck the economy more than anything else.

[Jimmy Cliff]

3 hours ago, beetle said:

That is why we need our own version of google , twitter and facebook.

We do but lets just say there is too much Western "influence" in India for that to ever happen.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

4 minutes ago, Jimmy Cliff said:

We do but lets just say there is too much Western "influence" in India for that to ever happen.

 

3 hours ago, beetle said:

That is why we need our own version of google , twitter and facebook.

 

You have to pray for ambani and jio coming up with something. If jio retail is successful, you won't have to worry about amazon/google/facebook, etc.

 

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/companies/190119/reliances-foray-into-e-commerce-will-reduce-digital-colonisation-moh.html

 

Quote

Bengaluru: Investment guru and former Infosys CFO T V Mohandas Pai Saturday said the foray of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance into India's e-commerce space would allay fears of digital colonisation and dramatically lower costs, immensely benefiting the consumers.

"One thing is certain that consumers and India will be a winner, and in online retail, the fear of becoming a digital colony will recede with the entry of a formidable Indian entity, Reliance," he told PTI in an interview here.

 

[beetle]

4 hours ago, Gollum said:

Amul twitter account suspended for this

Go Amul

. twitter.

Amul is back with the same ad.

Twitter gives some lame excuse of protecting security of the account.

Sab beeke hue hain!

Edited June 7, 2020 by beetle

[motomaverick]

WTF?? I hope we are fighting this. Or is this some lie by the Chinkies and the Padosi suwars?

 

China annexes 60 square km of India in Ladakh as simmering tensions erupt between two superpowers

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/china-annexes-60-square-km-india-ladakh-simmering-tensions-erupt/amp/

Edited June 12, 2020 by motomaverick

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, motomaverick said:

WTF?? I hope we are fighting this. Or is this some lie by the Chinkies and the Padosi suwars?

 

China annexes 60 square km of India in Ladakh as simmering tensions erupt between two superpowers

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/china-annexes-60-square-km-india-ladakh-simmering-tensions-erupt/amp/

The picture shown in the above link is a disputed territory.

[mishra]

5 hours ago, rkt.india said:

The picture shown in the above link is a disputed territory.

Its Indian territory. Once you say disputed, China gets a point. British journos ( if not Asians) know   And chose words carefully.

 

For once, I see, Most of world seems not to kow tow with Chinese narratives 

Edited June 12, 2020 by mishra

[rkt.india]

7 hours ago, mishra said:

Its Indian territory. Once you say disputed, China gets a point. British journos ( if not Asians) know   And chose words carefully.

 

For once, I see, Most of world seems not to kow tow with Chinese narratives 

 

[Gollum]

 

[Gollum]

 

[Clarke]

F**k EU! Allows China on entry list, a-holes sold their souls for some yuan.