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Got any info on point 6? Did they really start that rumor?

asdfadsfgfdda 7y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...
trentnix 7y ago
The Chinese media spread the rumor, and they are an extension of the Chinese government. Whether they started the rumor is immaterial.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  s/Chinese media/Fox News/, s/Chinese government/US government/, and see if this sentence still makes sense.
donaldihunter 7y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...
askl56 7y ago
They certainly brought it to prominence: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-official-pushes-conspiracy-theory-u-s-army-behind-virus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-o...
spking 7y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...
6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago
> China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic: After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus. That's the headline of this story from March 13: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...
TeMPOraL 7y ago
My uneducated guess is that it's the western internet getting into a fit over what was essentially a Twitter fight between officials. Related to that and some other stories about evil China - if China treated certain politician's Twitter feeds or Fox News articles as seriously as the West seems to treat China's equivalents, North America would probably be glassed by now.
duxup 7y ago
They have been telling their own people source of the virus is the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...
- boomboomsubban 7y ago
  One under director of the Foreign Affairs office posted it on Twitter, a site blocked in China. By this logic, the US is also telling their own people that the virus is a biological weapon because one senator said it on Fox News.
  - makomk 7y ago
    "Mr. Zhao’s remarks were spread on China’s most prominent social media platform, Weibo, under a hashtag: #ZhaoLijianPostedFiveTweetsinaRowQuestioningAmerica. By late afternoon on Friday, that hashtag had been viewed more than 160 million times, along with screenshots of the original Twitter posts."
    - boomboomsubban 7y ago
      Do you find the US government responsible for a conspiracy theory being popular on social media?
      - duxup 7y ago
        Did a US official start it on a platform controlled by the US... then yeah maybe.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...

trentnix 7y ago

The Chinese media spread the rumor, and they are an extension of the Chinese government. Whether they started the rumor is immaterial.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
s/Chinese media/Fox News/, s/Chinese government/US government/, and see if this sentence still makes sense.

donaldihunter 7y ago

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...

askl56 7y ago

They certainly brought it to prominence: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-official-pushes-conspiracy-theory-u-s-army-behind-virus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-o...

spking 7y ago

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lijian-zhao-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...

6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago

> China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic: After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus. That's the headline of this story from March 13: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...

TeMPOraL 7y ago

My uneducated guess is that it's the western internet getting into a fit over what was essentially a Twitter fight between officials. Related to that and some other stories about evil China - if China treated certain politician's Twitter feeds or Fox News articles as seriously as the West seems to treat China's equivalents, North America would probably be glassed by now.

duxup 7y ago

They have been telling their own people source of the virus is the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...

boomboomsubban 7y ago
One under director of the Foreign Affairs office posted it on Twitter, a site blocked in China. By this logic, the US is also telling their own people that the virus is a biological weapon because one senator said it on Fox News.
- makomk 7y ago
  "Mr. Zhao’s remarks were spread on China’s most prominent social media platform, Weibo, under a hashtag: #ZhaoLijianPostedFiveTweetsinaRowQuestioningAmerica. By late afternoon on Friday, that hashtag had been viewed more than 160 million times, along with screenshots of the original Twitter posts."
  - boomboomsubban 7y ago
    Do you find the US government responsible for a conspiracy theory being popular on social media?
    - duxup 7y ago
      Did a US official start it on a platform controlled by the US... then yeah maybe.