President Joe Biden headed to Europe Wednesday to meet with European leaders. He says the goal is to work together to “deliver real results” on critical issues, like climate change and cybersecurity. Biden is ducking the most important issue — the cause of the pandemic. He should be marshaling allies to act in unison by squeezing China to get answers and demand reparations. The evidence is mounting that China is guilty of manslaughter on a massive scale.
Damning evidence published on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal on Saturday shows that COVID-19’s genetic sequence is found nowhere in nature, making it unlikely the killer virus leaped from animals to humans naturally. Scientists Dr. Stephen Quay and Richard Muller argue that the COVID-19 genetic sequence is exactly what researchers would choose to use to engineer a virus for maximum infectivity against humans. Other recent analyses of the virus also point to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology — not nature — as the source of the pandemic. In science, nothing is settled. New evidence could still emerge and point in another direction.
But there is no doubt that China acted criminally once the virus began circulating in Wuhan in 2019. China hid the virus’s existence for weeks, denied that it could spread human to human, muzzled its scientists and blocked outside scientists from investigating — all in violation of Articles 6 and 7 of WHO’s International Health Regulations.
China is a repeat offender. In 2003, it hid the existence of the deadly SARS virus until it had spread worldwide, leaving a trail of death.
This time, Biden should be leading a multinational effort to isolate China, get answers and demand reparations. Without answers, warns Baylor College of Medicine epidemiologist Peter Hotez, there will be a COVID-26 and a COVID-32, meaning more viral disasters.
Biden’s merely going through the motions, appearing to take action but doing nothing. He’s called for a 90-day investigation by U.S. intelligence agencies. That’s mere paper-shuffling. As Hotez says, “We’ve pushed intelligence as far as we can.” Scientists need to collect lab samples from Wuhan and biological samples from the earliest COVID-19 patients.
The Biden administration has also called on the WHO to investigate again. WHO allowed China to handpick the first investigation team, ban access to actual biological evidence and veto conclusions it didn’t like. There’s no point to a second WHO investigation. WHO remains a puppet to China, still bowing to demands to exclude Taiwan from meetings on COVID-19.
To get the truth, The New York Post proposed an important remedy — a commission created by an act of Congress relying on nonpartisan scientists, not the likes of Anthony Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak, and the NIH’s Francis Collins. Their fingerprints are all over whatever virus was engineered in Wuhan. They misled Congress and the nation with a naive globalist viewpoint that put us in danger. Fauci told Congress that the Wuhan lab staff are “competent, trustworthy scientists, ” never mind their germ warfare projects for the Chinese Communist military.
Last week, Biden commented that China believes in a few years it “will own America.” What’s your strategy, Mr. President? So far, only weakness.
It’s a stark contrast to former President Donald Trump, who declared on Saturday night that “the time has come for America and the world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party of China.”
Trump proposed that “as a first step, all countries should collectively cancel all debt they owe to China as a down payment for reparations.” Some 150 countries are indebted to China. The U.S. owes $1.1 trillion.
Trump’s proposal is unorthodox. Economists warn defaulting will harm our ability to borrow in the future — ordinarily, a compelling concern. But the argument holds less water if all major countries collectively agree to enforce reparations against China this way.
China’s actions have led to carnage on a scale not seen since the Nazis. Nearly 4 million people have died, including 600,000 Americans.
One thing is clear. Unless China is made to pay, Americans will pay with their lives.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and author of “The Next Pandemic,” available at Amazon.com. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
didn’t china already pay hunter and the big guy?
“Biden commented that China believes in a few years it “will own America.” “, and Joe knows this for sure because they already own HIM!,
China owns about $1.3 trillion of the current $17.8 trillion of American Debt.– a little over 7%. and rising. Biden needs to tell China that the debt is cancelled,,,paid in full in Chinese generated COVID expenses. If Schumer and Pelosi voted him his normal 10%, kickback it would happen over-night.
That’s not the “THey need to pay” the article writer was on about.
BUT your version sounds funny at least.
China owns the EU, with all of the big money involved and China owns Hunter and therefore China owns Joe. Under Joe, with regard to communist China, Joe has and will continually allow China to cut the throat of the United States. There is the company Trader Joes and there is Joe Biden, who is Traitor Joe!
Oh, he will see that they pay HIM.
slo joe the demented is still trying to get china to tear down the Great Wall, calling it racist.
baitfish:
That is tinkerbell B. obama ordering his butt buddy to call it racist.
I’ve yet to SEE A SINGLE leftist even SAY that, towards the great wall.. BUT OUR BORDER wall, hell yes that was ‘racist’..
Anyone who believes that “China Joe” Biden has the courage to confront the Communist Chinese Government and demand that it pay for the trillions of dollars of economic damage that it has inflicted upon the rest of the world as a result of its egregious failure to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus beyond China’s borders is even more delusional than our cognitively impaired president. With the assistance of the Democrat party, its propagandists in the mainstream media, the deep state, and the World Health Organization, China has been able to cover-up its involvement in creating and spreading the deadly virus that has so far claimed more than 3.8 million lives and seriously damaged the economies of the most prosperous western nations.
I believe the Democrats protected their ideological cousins in China and imposed draconian restrictions in blue states in order to blame President Trump for the deaths and economic devastation caused by the virus thereby jeopardizing his re-election bid. Now that Biden has been placed in the Oval Office, we are finally allowed to consider the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and did not have a zoonotic origin. In their pursuit of power, the Democrats have demonstrated that they are quite willing to sacrifice American lives and our nation’s economic stability in order to gain and maintain control of the Executive Branch of our federal government.
Just like anyone expecting him to do a damn thing, with putin, RE the hackers, is dreaming.
There’s no doubt that China has paid but circuitously through other parties to the ‘Big Guy’ so the guilty are not brought under scrutiny. Things sound to cozy with China with overlong deadlines to discover what is already known so it must be about minimalizing its impact.