Lijian Zhao, a Chinese man who serves as deputy director of the foreign Ministry’s data branch, is leading a propaganda crusade to blame the global coronavirus on the United States, Italy and other countries.
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It made headlines last week after taking out of context comments from the U.S. Military’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He had intentionally brought the coronavirus to China.
The State Department vehemently denied this claim and the World Health Organization’s research report on the COVID-19 pandemic, published in February, that the new disease came from meat markets in Wuhan City, the capital of China’s Hubei Province. November.
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Zhao’s new effort to spread incorrect information became kind Wednesday after a woman known by his first name, Beatrice, told the Daily Beast that he had written a series of 3 tweets about his “shower thoughts” before this month.
She is not a doctor, nurse, epidemiologist, and claimed that she had written when she was a young mother from Albuquerque, wondering aloud if the coronavirus had reached the United States before the first thing that was detected.
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“This is not a conspiracy tweet, but I actually think COVID-19 has been here in The United States for some time. Don’t forget how in poor health everyone was on vacation/early January? And how did everyone say they had the “flu” and that the flu vaccine “wasn’t working”? The woman, whose twitter call is “the king of lizards” @mamaxbea, wrote on March 14, in the first of 3 tweets.
This went viral a week later. Zhao retwed and quoted Beatrice on March 22, sending her to Twitter after the increase.
Beatrice’s two tweets in the series said:
“Most other people had flu-like symptoms related to respiratory infections. Also many fitness professionals (here and on Facebook) reported how terrible vsR was this year and how many more respiratory episodes there were than in previous years.
“Idk. I’m not an expert. I’ve only been thinking about it since many other people tested negative for the flu and there’s still no COVID-19 control. Obviously, it’s serious anyway and please stay home / get your hands out / stop panicking when buying toilet paper, etc.”
Last week, President Trump was rejected for continually saying at press meetings that it was a “Chinese virus” that was the pandemic, which led Chinese state media to call the global epidemic a “Trump scourge.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo summoned the Chinese Communist Party Foreign Ministry, Yang Jiechi, to a convention last week to rebuke Zhao and several Chinese diplomats who took the lead in spreading incorrect information about the origin of the coronavirus on Twitter.
Sharing a video of a Congressional hearing with the CDC, Zhao wrote, “Cdc stagted immediately. When did Patient Zero start in the United States? How many other people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? Maybe in the United States. army that brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your knowledge public! America owes us an explanation!
In reaction to her message, Pentagon press officer Alyssa Farah condemned the Chinese Communist Party by American media for spreading conspiracy theories.
“As a global crisis, COVID-19 will be a domain of cooperation between nations. Instead, the Chinese Communist Party chose to enact false and absurd conspiracy theories about the origin of COVID-19 by blaming members of the U.S. service. #ChinaPropaganda,” he said. Said.
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Chinese state media also allegedly took comments from Italian physician Giuseppe Remuzzi from context. Remuzzi spoke to NPR and the Italian chain La7 Attualita about the coronavirus outbreak in the northern region of Lombardy in Italy, which is now the most affected country in the world. His citations were then translated and published on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, to blame Italy for the epidemic.