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You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat- 1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test. 2. (In
by guardiangod 7y ago
You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat-
1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test.
2. (In Chinese there's no word for 'flu', only 'cold', or 'transmissible cold'.) The 'cold' virus originated in US last year and killed more than 10k Americans before US sent special force to Wuhan to infect us Chinese! Even the head of CDC admitted it (see article).
3. A 5 member US special force went to Wuhan in November. They returned to US and all died in suspicious circumstances.
4. Now all the western countries are sending infected agents into China to blow the epidemic again.
You might notice a common theme that US is the enemy, and they are the originator of all bad things that happened to China. This is not a coincidence.
- sieabahlpark 7y agoThat's probably exactly what China wants it's population to believe.
- knzhou 7y agoSigh. Each dumb conspiracy theory in Chinese social media has an equal and opposite dumb conspiracy theory in American social media.
- taiwanboy 7y agoThe CIA rumour is no less raised by the CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY spokesman https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-army-maybe-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-arm...
- knolax 7y ago...on Twitter.
- scotty79 7y agoWhich is the main medium that US president uses for communication with public.
- knzhou 7y agoAnd the equal and opposite rumor is being raised by an American Senator: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-cotton-conspiracy-theory-china-warfare-leak-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-co...
- spectramax 7y agoWhy does every criticism of China have to have a corollary accompanying US criticism? Can we not just talk about one issue at a time instead of muddling up the waters?
- indemnity 7y agoClassic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.
- knzhou 7y agoSorry if you're that nostalgic, but the cold war ended decades ago.
- refurb 7y agoYou're right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes Use of the phrases like these, exemplifying the tu quoque logical fallacy, was an attempt to deflect criticism of the Soviet Union by referring to racial discrimination and lynching in the United States.
- FpUser 7y agoLook at it from the other angle. If you are to blame someone for doing XYZ I assume that you are sparkling clean. If however you are doing the same thing simply get lost. You have no moral right to blame someone for doing exactly the same thing you do. It is not "Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic (TM)". It is a friggin natural sense of justice that normal people possess.
- jessaustin 7y agoIn modern parlance, a respect for fairness and basic logical coherence is called "whataboutism".
- FpUser 7y ago
- guardiangod 7y agoLook I know this is dumb and all. Other Chinese relatives/friends (usually oversea) are trying to combat all these fake news. But 2 things- 1. WeChat is heavily patrolled and monitored by the PRC censors. If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour (or seconds. It's very enlightening to see the sensitive terms get filtered in real time.) In fact, in the last week or so, I've been getting more conspiracy forwards. The spread of rumors on this topic on WeChat is speeding up. 2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.
- knzhou 7y ago> If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour Reddit tries to stop conspiracy theories with quarantines and bans. But they're rapidly spreading anyway. > 2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus. It really is symmetric: Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, has been on Fox saying exactly this. Fox also has other people on saying it was a joint North Korean and Chinese bioweapon, made solely to attack America, but released initially in China as a decoy. Fox is the most watched cable news channel in America.
- taiwanboy 7y agoDisingenuous comparison. Ministers of foreign affairs in China is similar to Secretary of State in US. A senator is nowhere near equivalent.
- knzhou 7y agoSenators are within the top 100 most powerful people in the US. They represent millions of people. I think you're just grasping at straws because you've already decided what narrative you want. In which case there's nothing more for me to say here.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoSenators are from the legislative branch and have no executive power, however. Their power stems from what they can vote on, eg what justices they can confirm. China for all effective purposes lacks an independent judicial or legislative branch, so it is difficult to compare the two governments.