
Instead of rejecting accusations that is was solely responsible for the outbreak and spread of the Wuhan virus, renamed as COVID-19 by a pliant World Health Organisation(WHO), it is time that China, which aims to exploit the present global pandemic lockdown which has utterly destroyed the economies of free democracies, come up with a better explanation. Earlier US president Donald Trump had taken up the issue by accusing China of culpability and even calling the virus, Chinese virus. He was slammed by the liberal media in the west for adding a racist color to the pandemic. Trump’s charges against China that it was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was drowned by the din and noise created by the liberal American media. Instead of trying to pursue the matter in a logical manner such as weighing in the broader information about the issue, the media was more intent on ‘probing’ Trump to conclude that he was actually shooting from the hip. Perhaps the US liberal media and in particular a channel, was more interested in gunning for Trump so that he did not appear to be doing a good job in containing the rampaging virus. By criticizing the president’s rhetoric as racist, the liberal media and the Democrats are falling into a trap set by Chinese propagandists, who are hoping to characterize any criticism of Beijing’s role in the outbreak as racism. Be that as it may, the issue of Chinese culpability was again echoed by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who told media that there was “enormous evidence” which showed that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in China. The US secretary or state’s comments came as Europe and parts of the United States prepared to cautiously lift virus lockdowns as signs emerge that the deadly pandemic is ebbing and governments look to restart their battered economies. However, Pompeo went further than Trump’s earlier allegations, citing that there were significant and enormous evidence to confirm that the virus originated at the Wuhan Laboratory. Pompeo said early Chinese efforts to downplay the coronavirus amounted to “a classic Communist disinformation effort. That created enormous risk.” Pompeo further slammed the Chinese as having a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories. What Pompeo had said was not merely focussing blame but seeking answers from the Chinese. Globally, more than 2,50,097 people have been killed and 36,09,958 infected worldwide by the virus as on May 4, which has left half of humanity under some form of lockdown and pushed the global economy towards its worst downturn since the Great Depression. In order to hide facts, China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus. Since late January, Chinese researchers have published a series of Covid-19 studies in influential international medical journals about early coronavirus cases – such as when human-to-human transition first appeared. These have raised questions over the official government account of the outbreak and sparked controversy on Chinese social media. Now, Chinese authorities have tightened their grip on the publication of Covid-19 research. China must share all information on the virus, so that the world can have vaccines early and save countless lives and not to insist that the virus originated from nowhere land.
