{"id":204015,"date":"2020-03-17T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204015"},"modified":"2020-03-19T20:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:37:40","slug":"coronavirus-covid-19-made-in-china-or-made-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204015","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus COVID-19: \u201cMade in China\u201d or \u201cMade in America\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Michel Chossudovsky \u2013 Global Research March 14, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wuhan-virology-hazmat-suits.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-201529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wuhan-virology-hazmat-suits.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wuhan-virology-hazmat-suits.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wuhan-virology-hazmat-suits-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Trump contends that the coronavirus was \u201cMade in China\u201d. \u00a0And that China threatens America.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>The president of the US wants Americans to believe that the coronavirus pandemic carries the \u201cMade in China\u201d label.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refers to it as the \u201cWuhan coronavirus.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>\u201cThe Big Lie\u201d started on January 30th when the WHO Director General pressured by powerful US economic interests declared a global public health emergency<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line\/5705776\"> with only 150 \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d (by the WHO) outside China<\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/em><strong><em>with only six cases in the USA. And it was called a pandemic.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cFake media\u201d immediately went into high gear. China was held responsible for \u201cspreading infection\u201d Worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the following day (January\u00a031, 2020),\u00a0Trump announced that he would deny entry to the US of both Chinese and foreign nationals\u00a0\u201cwho have traveled in China in the last 14 days\u201d<strong>.<\/strong> This immediately triggered a crisis in air travel, \u00a0transportation, US-China business relations as well as freight and shipping transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While the \u201cMade in China\u201d coronavirus\u00a0label served as a pretext, the unspoken objective was to bring the Chinese economy to its knees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It was an act of \u201ceconomic warfare\u201d, which has contributed to undermining both China\u2019s \u00a0economy\u00a0as well as that of \u00a0most Western countries (allies of the US), leading to a wave of bankruptcies, not to mention unemployment, collapse of the tourist industry, \u00a0etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, Trump\u2019s \u201cMade in China\u201d coronavirus label almost immediately as of early February triggered a campaign against ethnic Chinese throughout the Western World.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stage 2.0: \u201cInfections Transmitted by Europeans\u201d?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On March 11, a new phase was launched. The Trump administration imposed a 30-day ban on Europeans entering the United States through the suspension of air-travel with the EU (with the exception of Britain).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">America is now waging its \u201ceconomic \u00a0war\u201d against Western Europe, while using COVID-19 as a justification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">European governments have been co-opted. In Italy a lockdown prevails, ordered by the Prime Minister, large cities in Northern Italy including Milano and Torino have literally closed down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Confusion, Fear and intimidation prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>It\u2019s \u201cDamage Made in America\u201d.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Late February: Financial manipulation characterizes stock market transactions Worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The stock value of airlines companies collapses overnight. Those who had \u00a0\u201cforeknowledge\u201d of Trump\u2019s March 11 decision to ban transatlantic flights from EU countries made a bundle of money. It\u2019s called \u201cshort-selling\u201d in the derivative market among other speculative ops. Institutional speculators including hedge funds with \u201cinside info\u201d had already placed their bets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More generally<strong>, a massive transfer of money wealth has occurred<\/strong>, among the largest in World history, leading to countless bankruptcies, not to mention the loss of lifelong savings engineered through the collapse of financial markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This process is ongoing. It would be naive to believe that these occurrences are spontaneous, based on market forces. They are deliberate. They are part of a carefully designed plan involving powerful financial interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>COVID-19: \u201cMade in China\u201d or \u201cMade in America\u201d?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And now a new bombshell has emerged: The White House rhetoric of accusing China of spreading the \u201cWuhan virus\u201d Worldwide has been refuted by\u00a0both Japanese and Chinese reports.\u00a0Scientific analysis revealed by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-coronavirus-shocking-update\/5705196\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Larry Romanoff<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0suggests that the virus was \u201cMade in America\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cit appears that the virus did not originate in China and, according to reports in Japanese and other media, may have originated in the US. \u00a0\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In February, the Japanese<strong> Asahi news report<\/strong> (print and TV)<strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2020\/0223\/c90000-9661026.html\"> claimed the coronavirus originated in the US, not in China<\/a>, <\/strong>and that some (or many) of the 14,000 American deaths attributed to influenza may have in fact have resulted from the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5705359 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-02-at-14.09.46.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-02-at-14.09.46.png 637w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-02-at-14.09.46-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-02-at-14.09.46-400x301.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And on March 12, in a statement to the US Congress (House Oversight Committee),<strong> CDC Director Robert Redfield<\/strong>\u00a0unwittingly \u201cspilled the beans\u201d. He candidly admitted, yes, some cases diagnosed as seasonal flu could have been coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When did this occur? In October, November? What is the chronology. \u00a0It is worth noting that Redfield\u2019s statement is corroborated by both <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-coronavirus-shocking-update\/5705196\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Japanese and Taiwanese virologists<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0Two countries which are staunch allies of the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CDC director Robert Redfield admitted some Americans who seemingly died from influenza were tested positive for novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in the posthumous diagnosis, during the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kk7q0bKE6p\">pic.twitter.com\/kk7q0bKE6p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1237974799999062016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is worth noting that the Taiwan virologist (referred to above)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cstated that the US has recently [?] had more than 200 \u201cpulmonary fibrosis\u201d cases that resulted in death due to patients\u2019 inability to breathe, \u2026 He said he .. informed the US health authorities to consider seriously those deaths as resulting from the coronavirus, \u2026 [He]\u00a0then stated the virus outbreak may have begun earlier than assumed, suggesting \u00a0\u201cWe must look to September of 2019\u201d. (quoted in Larry Romanoff, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/china-coronavirus-shocking-update\/5705196\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>op cit<\/strong><\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">China\u2019s Foreign Ministry has reacted to CDC Robert Redfield\u2019s statements intimating that the virus could have originated in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWhen Did \u201cPatient Zero\u201d Begin in the US?\u201d said China\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson<strong> Zhao Lijian. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course \u201cWHEN\u201d is the fundamental question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHow many people are infected, what are the names of the hospitals, It might be US Army that brought epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent, US owe us an explanation\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">See below<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCDirector?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CDCDirector<\/a> Dr. Robert Redfield: Some cases that were previously diagnosed as Flu in the US were actually <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a>. It is absolutely WRONG and INAPPROPRIATE to call this the Chinese coronavirus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mk4RB7XYq0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mk4RB7XYq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hua Chunying \u534e\u6625\u83b9 (@SpokespersonCHN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpokespersonCHN\/status\/1238003509510856704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5706279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/China-Foreign-Ministry-COVID-19.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/China-Foreign-Ministry-COVID-19.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/China-Foreign-Ministry-COVID-19-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/China-Foreign-Ministry-COVID-19-400x692.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"730\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The World is at the Crossroads of the Most Serious Social and Economic Crisis in Modern History<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">People Worldwide are being misled. They are told: \u201cIt\u2019s going to get worse\u201d. Angela Merkel has stated without a shred of evidence that \u201c70% of the German population could contract coronavirus if more isn\u2019t done to stop its spread.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In several countries, the economy has closed down. Supermarkets, shopping malls, offices, factories, schools, universities are at a standstill. People are confined to their homes. Fear and intimidation prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the meantime, coinciding with the coronavirus lockdown in Italy, 30,000 US troops have been dispatched to the EU, under US-NATO\u2019s \u00a0\u201cDefend Europe 2020\u201d war games against Russia, in the largest military deployment since World War II. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/in-a-europe-closed-down-by-the-coronavirus-the-eu-opens-its-doors-to-the-us-army\/5706133\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201cCould the Defender become the Invader\u2026?<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Let\u2019s be clear: The coronavirus pandemic is not the \u201ccause\u201d of this unfolding economic and social crisis. It is the \u201cpretext\u201d for the implementation of a carefully designed \u201coperation\u201d (supported by media disinformation) which destabilizes national economies, impoverishes large sectors of the World population and literally undermines the lives of millions of people. What we are dealing with is \u201cAn Act of War\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While COVID-19 is an important Public Health concern, the lockdown coupled with an ongoing fear campaign does not constitute an effective means to combating the virus, i.e. by providing target medical assistance and health services to those affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What Happens Next: The Potential Impacts of a Continued Freeze of US Trade with China<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The geopolitics are complex. How will economic events unfold? We will essentially focus briefly on US-China relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Those who formulated America\u2019s \u201cundeclared economic war\u201d against China, failed to envisage the potential backlash on the US economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It\u2019s an \u201cEconomic Harakiri\u201d i.e. \u201cSuicide\u00a0American Style\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a\u00a0matter of \u00a0months, if normal US-China trade relations and transportation are not resumed, the impacts on the national economies of Western countries could be devastating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A large share of goods displayed in America\u2019s shopping malls, including major brands are \u00a0\u201cMade in China\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cMade in China\u201d is the backbone of retail trade in the USA which indelibly sustains household consumption in virtually all major commodity categories from clothing, footwear, hardware, electronics, toys, jewellery, household fixtures, medical supplies, medicine and prescription drugs,, \u00a0TV sets, cell phones, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cMade in China\u201d also dominates the production of a wide range of industrial inputs, advanced technology, machinery, building materials, automotive, parts and accessories, etc. not to mention the extensive sub-contracting of Chinese companies on behalf of US conglomerates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While the US has a powerful and sophisticated financial apparatus (which has the ability to manipulate trade and stock markets Worldwide), America\u2019s Real Economy is in a shambles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Production does not take place in the USA. The producers have given up production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US trade deficit with China is instrumental in fuelling the profit driven consumer economy which relies on \u201cMade in China\u201d consumer goods. Meanwhile China holds a large part of the US public debt which they can readily convert into real assets overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Made-in-China.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Made-in-China-768x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Made-in-China-768x209.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Made-in-China-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Made-in-China.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">www.Made-In-China.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At this juncture of the coronavirus crisis, Beijing policy makers are fully aware that the US economy is fragile and heavily dependent on \u201cMade in China\u201d. \u00a0Moreover, China has overtaken the US in several high tech areas including 5G.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And with an internal market of 1.4 billion people, coupled with a global export market under the \u201cBelt and Road\u201d initiative, the Chinese economy will have the upper hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19-made-in-china-or-made-in-america\/5706272\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion, Fear and intimidation prevail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":201529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,61,105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204019,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204015\/revisions\/204019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}