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[John J. Xenakis]

*** 27-Apr-20 World View -- CNBC's Jim Cramer: Hostility to China grows in America

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

• CNBC's Jim Cramer: Hostility to China grows in America
  
• China's love for Ecuador
  
• The Chinese master race
  
• Global views of China continue to turn increasingly negative
  
• Growing evidence of China's malicious behavior in spreading pandemic
  
• A thousand ways to end the lockouts
  

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**** CNBC's Jim Cramer: Hostility to China grows in America
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WHO's January 24 tweet stating that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission and community spread. The Chinese had already known for six weeks that there was human-to-human transmission and community spread. This tweet was a global disaster, because it lulled many countries into complacency.

A lengthy rant by CNBC's Jim Cramer shows several aspects of how world
opinion toward China is growing increasingly negative, starting with
the US-China trade dispute, and more so with the Wuhan Coronavirus
(Covid-19) issue. A growing minority consider the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) to be a criminal organization.

Cramer's rant was directed at China's reaction to a failed
drug trial by the California company Gilead Sciences.

Gilead is one of dozens of American companies that are working to
develop vaccines, treatments, therapeutics or even a cure for the
Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19). Gilead has an existing antiviral
treatment product, Remdesivir, that has been used to treat Ebola
patients. In March, the FDA approved testing the drug for Covid-19
patients.

Gilead went to a great deal of trouble to get approval for a test of
Covid-19 patients in China. The trial was ended last week, after
being inconclusive. Chinese officials responded by trashing Gilead,
trashing the trial, and getting the World Health Organization (WHO) to
do the same. WHO was forced to retract its statement. Gilead issued
a statement saying that the trial was ended because enrollment was too
low, and said, "the study results are inconclusive, though trends in
the data suggest a potential benefit for remdesivir, particularly
among patients treated early in disease." Gilead accused China of
posting "inappropriate characterizations of the study."

CNBC's principal commentator Jim Cramer commented on this situation on
Friday morning with an extended rant (my transcription):

<QUOTE>"And I thought it you listen to [Dr. Scott Gottlieb],
you would conclude only one thing: That the Chinese have done very
bad job in the way that they've handled us. And I've always felt
that Remdesivir would help if you get it early enough. ... I think
that the Chinese have been horrendous. And I think that the WHO
has been horrendous, and I think that the combination of the two
[China and WHO] against Gilead and the assault against Gilead [is
horrendous]. And here's a company [Gilead] that's done its
absolute best like many American companies, and I don't understand
the animus of China to our own companies, other than the fact they
regard us as a cold war opponent. ...

The reason that I'm discouraged about the Chinese is we have so
many great things that are going on here by fantastic people who
are really doing great things, and all we ever get from the
Chinese is frankly a country that looks down upon us. They're
number one, and they're the great power, and we're being treated
by them and our companies are being treated by them with the
greatest disrespect.

... That's how they treat us. Why does anyone say that?

I sat there and listened to what they [the Chinese] did with
Gilead. First they said they didn't do the test, cause it
couldn't get finished. Then suddenly they leak to the WHO saying
how bad it is. Then it's pulled from WHO. In the meantime, all
Gilead is doing, AND FOR FREE, is to try to come up with something
that when you start early might work. And the disrespect [from
China] is widely accepted [by the media]. Maybe Trump is a hot
button [to the media]. But not the Chinese. The Chinese are
revered. My father worked for the Chinese. God love them, they
were nice to my father. Have you ever seen anyone just look down
upon us, and say that we don't know what we're doing? Even the
Soviet Union respected us from 47 to 87. They respected us. But
-- What do they [the Chinese] think of us that they could treat us
like this. And our drug companies? How many Nobel Prizes have
they won?

... That's just the way I feel. You and I know that this idea
that we're a fifth rate power and they would treat Ecuador better
than us, and you saw Ecuador in the papers today."<END QUOTE>

I quoted Cramer's rant at length because I want to use it to make
serveral points.

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**** China's love for Ecuador
****

Let's start with the easiest one -- the reference to Ecuador.

Ecuador's infestation of Covid-19 is a mess, with many streets filled
with bodies of dead people. That's the reason that Ecuador has been
in the papers, but that isn't the reason that China loves Ecuador.

Thanks to China's "debt trap diplomacy," Ecuador owes $6.5 billion to
China. In return, Ecuador is China's slave. China has deployed a
massive surveillance spy system in Ecuador, the ECU-911 system, that
can spy on all citizens, and sends its data back to China's military.
By the way, similar systems have been sold to Venezuela, Bolivia and
Angola. So that explains why China loves Ecuador. ( "13-Oct-19 World View -- Ecuador's president Moreno imposes curfew after 10 days of violent protests"
)

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**** The Chinese master race
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Jim Cramer is confused about why the CCP is so disrespectful of
Americans and American companies. "I don't understand the animus of
China to our own companies, other than the fact they regard us as a
cold war opponent," says Cramer.

No, that isn't the reason at all. In fact, the Chinese do not see
this situation as a "cold war." They see it as a prelude to a hot
war.

China is unique as having an extremely racist view of themselves as
superior to everyone else.

America is a "melting pot" of many races. Americans know that, and
don't consider themselves to be some sort of superior race or master
race. Instead, Americans see themselves as ordinary people who were
lucky enough to be born in the greatest country in history. Most
countries have similar views of their own people.

But not the Chinese. They are unique in a highly racist way, as I
described in my book, "War Between China and Japan." Since ancient
times, the Chinese have viewed the universe in three layers: The
highest layer is the Kingdom of Heaven. The second layer is China,
the Master Race, the Middle Kingdom -- yellow race, black hair, brown
eyes, yellow skin. And the bottom layer is everyone else, the rest of
us, the barbarians. The Chinese culture views the Chinese as a Master
Race, superior to all other races. Even Hitler's Master Race Nazi
attitude was not as bad, because it only survived a couple of decades.
But the Chinese Master Race attitude is has been firmly entrenched in
the Chinese culture literally for millennia.

China's government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), considers
itself superior to all other governments, and not bound by
international law, or any international agreements that it has signed.
To the CCP, joining the United Nations or the World Health
Organization (WHO) or the World Trade Organization (WTO) or any
international organization does not require China to abide by any
commitments. The CCP considers itself superior to the organization,
and is simply using the organization as a way of controlling and
exploiting the barbarians for the benefit of the CCP.

So that's why the Chinese love Ecuador. To the Chinese, Ecuadorians
are like cute little poodles that are controlled and monitored by the
CCP masters, and who do as their CCP masters tell them. Who wouldn't
love to be masters of a country of cute little poodles? But the CCP
hates Americans because we aren't obedient poodles, and because we
constantly prove that we're better than they are. As Cramer asks,
"How many Nobel Prizes have they won?"

So this isn't some simple economic competition, or even a simple
military competition. America's superiority to China is a definitive
challenge to Confucius and to China's entire racist Master Race
culture.

So Jim Cramer had no idea why the Chinese treat Americans with such
enormous contempt, but if he reads this, then he'll finally know.

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**** Global views of China continue to turn increasingly negative
****

Cramer's rant illustrates more and more widely held views that China
is not a friend, but an enemy.

Americans have always had a friendly positive view of China. We helped
them in World War I, and we saved them in WW II. Even when Mao Zedong
was starving and murdering tens of millions of Chinese in the
Great Leap Forward, even when the CCP was slaughtering thousands
of peaceful young students in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, it
made little difference -- Americans loved China.

According to Pew Research, this changed sharply in 2011, when Xi
Jinping came to power, as shown by this chart.


American positive and negative views of China, 2005-2020

Views became less unfavorable in 2016-17, but then unfavorable
views surged in 2018 with the trade dispute, and recently
with the Covid-19 issue.

This change is even more pronounced by the people of India, who
believe that China’s opacity and mismanagement is to blame for the
global pandemic, according to a survey conducted by The Takshashila
Institution in Bangalore, India. According to the survey:

• 67% blame China for the pandemic.
  
• Descriptive terms like “Chinese virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Made in
  China pandemic” underscore public anger.
  
• Chinese diplomats pushing the narrative of China's success
  in containing the outbreak are not believed.
  
• 65% see China's response to the outbreak as draconian and opaque,
  with its data being intentionally falsified.

According to a study of Indian social media, Indians are angry at
China and the World Health Organization (WHO) for their mishandling of
the pandemic, and they praise the efficiency and transparency of
Taiwan's response.

I haven't seen any surveys of Chinese attitudes towards Americans
and Indians, but it would seem likely that those attitudes
are becoming more negative as well.

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**** Growing evidence of China's malicious behavior in spreading pandemic
****

Evidence is growing that the CCP purposely took steps to spread the
pandemic to other countries, and used the World Health Organization as
a tool to do this. The motive was that China did not want to be the
only country in the world experiencing a pandemic, and wanted to make
sure that the pandemic spread to the US and other countries.

First, there's the question of where the virus came from. There are
three theories:

• A bioweapon developed by the Wuhan Institute Of Virology.
  This is rejected by almost everyone.
  
• A naturally occurring virus under study at the Wuhan Institute Of
  Virology that escaped.
  
• A naturally occurring virus that spread spontaneously in Wuhan's
  wet markets.

The first of these theories is almost universally rejected, and there
are investigations underway to determine which of the latter two
theories is correct. However, it doesn't really matter too much which
it is.

What matters now and what's important now is the CCP's actions once
the virus started spreading in Wuhan. The circumstantial evidence
points clearly, almost beyond a reasonable doubt, to the conclusion
that the CCP purposely spread the virus around the world.

• In early December, Wuhan doctors were finding patients with
  infections that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to
  another. The CCP's reaction to this was to censor all
  discussion.
  
  
• China could have stopped the virus at this point with contact
  tracing and isolation. They did start quarantining patients later in
  December, but still censored any discussion. Sometime in late
  December, Wuhan hospitals noticed an exponential increase in the
  number of cases, making it clear to the doctors involved that there
  was human to human transmission, but that information was
  censored.
  
  
• On January 1, Dr. Li Wenlian, who had identified and reported
  about the virus's communal spread, was forced to sign a phony
  confession. Dr. Li died of the disease himself. Seven other people
  are arrested on similar charges and their fate is unknown.
  
  
• On January 6, the US CDC offered to send a team to Wuhan to assist
  in the investigation. The CCP blocked them, and continued blocking
  any further requests.
  
  
• During this period, WHO rejected warnings from Taiwan that China
  was lying. WHO is obeying the CCP's demands to ignore Taiwan.
  
  
• During January, China blocked airline travel out of Wuhan into
  other parts of China, but allowed thousands of Chinese to travel to
  other countries, especially Europe and America, apparently with the
  motive of seeding the virus in as many countries as possible.
  
  
• China repeatedly issued statements that there is "no clear
  evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff
  infections," which they knew was a lie.
  
  
• On January 8, an official statement from the World Health
  Organization declares, “Preliminary identification of a novel virus in
  a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates
  China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks.... WHO does not
  recommend any specific measures for travelers. WHO advises against the
  application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the
  information currently available." Many countries depended on this
  statement to permit tens of thousands of travelers from China to enter
  their countries and seed the virus in the population.
  
  
• On January 14, WHO issued the tweet shown at the beginning of this
  article, saying "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese
  authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human
  transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan,
  China." This tweet was particularly deadly for the world, as it
  lulled numerous countries into complacency. It was a total lie, as
  the Chinese already knew for five or six weeks that there we
  human-to-human transmission and communal spread.
  
  
• According to White House adviser Peter Navarro, during the time
  when China and the WHO were denying human-to-human transmission,
  Chinese agents went to countries around the world and bought up large
  quantities "to corner the market in personal protective equipment
  including masks. So they were buying large quantities of masks,
  gloves, goggles, respirators from the rest of the world at a time when
  the world was still sleeping with respect to the dangers of the
  virus."
  
  
• On January 31, Donald Trump imposed travel restrictions on people
  travelling from China.

I've listened to several interviews on the BBC and elsewhere of
Chinese officials being asked about these charges. These Chinese
officials are really mealy-mouthed. They never try to explain their
actions, but just blame everything on Trump, even though every country
on the planet is going to suffer because of China's actions. It's
proof of how stupid the CCP thugs are, if they think that we're so
stupid we believe what they're saying.

I always say that the CCP officials are the dumbest bunch of thugs
imaginable. You never know how they're going to handle a situation,
but you can always be certain that they'll handle it in such a way as
to make it worse. They've certainly done that in this situation.

The CCP thugs apparently believe that they can talk their way out of
this, just as they've tried to talk their way out of their illegal
annexation of the South China Sea or their genocide and ethnic
cleansing of Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang
province). The CCP thugs are unable to grasp how dangerous the
situation is, as the people of the world increasingly view the CCP as
a criminal organization. This will not go well for anybody.

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**** A thousand ways to end the lockouts
****

It now appears that we'll have continue using "social distancing" and
other containment methods until early 2022. The world will be a very
different place by then, even more so if there's a war with China
before then.

There are now about 3 million cases and 200,000 deaths worldwide, with
almost 100,000 cases and almost 55,000 deaths in the United States.

If you're willing to step back from the horror of that many deaths,
and look at the big picture, then there are some interesting
experiments going on.

There are 50 states in the US, and there are countries and provinces
around the world. So let's say that there are 500 different regions.

Then there are 500 different experiments going on for dealing with the
virus. Some started lockdowns early, some later, and others had no
lockdowns at all. Different lockdowns permitted different kinds of
activities, whether buying groceries or jogging alone in the park,
provided that "social distancing" and face mask rules are followed.

Now they're starting to end the lockdowns. Some are doing it early,
some doing it quickly, some doing it later, some doing it slowly.
Some will fail, and there will be a new resurgence of cases, and all
the accomplishments of the lockdown will be lost.

That means that by the end of the summer, we're going to have a great
deal of data and information on what works and what doesn't. It's
widely expected that there will be a "second wave" of the pandemic in
the fall, and in that case, all the data collected from these 500
experiments will be used to deal with the virus much more effectively
than in the first wave.

So I'm going to call this "good news." People are always complaining
that I post nothing but bad news, but this is one piece of good news:
If there's a "second wave" in the fall, then we'll know how to handle
it effectively, based on the experience of these 500 experiments.

John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan:
Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book
2), June 2019, Paperback: 331 pages, with over 200 source references,
$13.99 https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Betwee...732738637/

Sources:

• Timeline: How the new coronavirus spread (Al-Jazeera, 24-Mar-2020)
  
• The Comprehensive Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Lies (National Review, 23-Mar-2020)
  
• Chinese Embassy Blasts 'Hasty, Reckless Western Claims That Virus Originated In Wuhan (ZeroHedge, 13-Apr-2020)
  
• 1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say (National Geographic, 24-Jan-2014)
  
• Rick Gladstone / previous pandemics / Coronavirus Outbreak Risks Reviving Stigma for China (NY Times, 10-Feb-2020)
  
• Wuhan Coronavirus / Indians Aren’t Buying China’s Narrative (Atlantic, 23-Apr-2020)
  
• Coronavirus / The Problem With China’s Victory Lap (Atlantic, 28-Mar-2020)
  
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• Peter Navarro Claims China Tried to ‘Corner the World Market’ in Masks after They Identified Coronavirus Threat (National Review, 6-Apr-2020)
  
• VIDEO: Chinese Woman Brags About Buying Truckloads of Facemasks from US Supermarkets (National File, 1-Apr-2020)
  
• World Health Org Omits Pro-CCP, ‘Human to Human Transmission’ Lie from It’s Own Coronavirus Timeline (Warroom.org, 11-Apr-2020)
  
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• POLITICO Brussels Playbook: Disinfo warning — Money talks — Europe’s new tracking apps (Politico.eu, 21-Apr-2020)
  
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• Gilead Sciences Statement on Data From Remdesivir Study in Patients With Severe COVID-19 in China (Gilead Sciences, 23-Apr-2020)
  
• The Facts on Trump’s Travel Restrictions (FactCheck, 6-Mar-2020)

Related articles:

• Ecuador's president Moreno imposes curfew after 10 days of violent protests (13-Oct-2019)
  
  
• How three major 20th century crises are merging into a single mega-crisis today (19-Apr-2020)
  
  
• Trump calls for ending coronavirus lockdowns by Easter, April 12 (25-Mar-2020)
  
  
• Today's Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic vs 1918 Spanish Flu (22-Mar-2020)
  
  
• China's coronavirus threatens Xi Jinping's Mandate from Heaven (25-Jan-2020)
  

KEYS: Generational Dynamics, China, Wuhan Coronavirus, Covid-19,
CNBC, Jim Cramer, Gilead Sciences, Remdesivir,
World Health Organization, WHO, Taiwan,
Ecuador, ECU-911, Venezuela, Bolivia, Angola,
Confucius, Kingdom of Heaven, Middle Kingdom, barbarians,
India, Takshashila Institution, Peter Navarro,
Wuhan, Li Wenlian, Wuhan Institute Of Virology

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