- A disinformation researcher Marcel Schliebs has identified hundreds of accounts affiliated with the pro-China agenda-pushing forward the theory of exported cold meats being a reason for the spread of coronavirus.
- The comrades have attempted to justify their contention by quoting WHO that the virus can live for several hours on surfaces of cardboard and plastics and have concluded it can thus be passed on to human beings.
- It is yet to be seen how far China will take its war on exports against democracies that disagree with the CCP.
Hundreds of accounts linked to the pro-China agenda have been found by disinformation researcher Marcel Schliebs, who is pushing the claim that exported cold meats are to blame for the spread of coronavirus. The Chinese official media appears to be interested in establishing that coronavirus is spread by beef from Brazil, shrimp from Saudi Arabia, and pork from the United States as reported by Policy Research Group.
Lobsters Spread Corona
China’s assertion that lobsters from Maine are spreading coronavirus is the most recent item in this edition.
Schliebs spent 18 months analysing the Twitter feeds of pro-China accounts and discovered that the Maine lobster idea was promoted by a Chinese ambassador stationed at the embassy in Kolkata.
This notion was first proposed by Zha Liyou in November 2019, and it has since snowballed.
China appears to be propagating the contaminated meat notion in an attempt to refute the narrative.
The comrades tried to explain their claim by citing WHO, which stated that the virus may survive for several hours on cardboard and plastic surfaces and that it can thus be transmitted to humans.
Transmission of Corona Virus
Meeting China’s severe inspection requirements, which now include video inspection of the site, has been a major headache for both the EU and the US.
The main difficulty is that, when the police insist on scrutinising the product, half of it rots away because the process is slow.
A team from Oxford looked at 60 peer-reviewed research and discovered that no virus can be transmitted from surfaces to humans.
However, one correlation has emerged at the very least: any country that takes a stand against CCP policies in any form will have China declare that their food is polluted, affecting that country’s exports.
In 2010, when Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the reaction was quick.
Within the first half of 2010, China’s salmon imports dropped by 92 percent to 29 percent.
China’s CCP Policies
Australia has also been the target of the CCP’s wrath, with their wine and meat exports plummeting, as well as claims that their lobsters are also infected with coronavirus4.
New Zealand is another country that has had its borders closed for a long time and has very strict laws in place for people and goods entering the country.
They, too, assert that no proof of human cross-contamination via frozen items has been discovered, and thus that frozen products are not a cause for concern as a potential dissemination method.
It is clear that China is making full use of its increasing superpower status to keep the rest of the world at bay when it comes to criticising its goals and policies in mainland China and the regions it claims as its own5.
Trade War against China
New Zealand, on the other hand, is avoiding the same fate as Australia by refusing to take a stand on the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
Instead, it has chosen to act as a friendly mediator for China and any other country with which it is now engaged in a trade war.
It is clear that the majority of the globe, particularly countries that rely largely on Chinese exports, are no longer ready to risk provoking China’s wrath.
As a superpower, the US has been at odds with China in a trade war since Trump’s election, and it appears to be only getting worse under Biden’s presidency, owing to mistrust and the stress of the pandemic-induced economic crisis.
It remains to be seen how far China will go in its export war against democracies that oppose the CCP.
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Source: Policy Research Group
