China pressured EU to drop COVID disinformation criticism

[Counselor706]

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - China sought to block a European Union report alleging that Beijing was spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, according to four sources and diplomatic correspondence reviewed by Reuters.

Four diplomatic sources told Reuters that the report had initially been slated for release on April 21 but was delayed after Chinese officials picked up on a Politico news report hat previewed its findings.

A senior Chinese official contacted European officials in Beijing the same day to tell them that, “if the report is as described and it is released today it will be very bad for cooperation,” according to EU diplomatic correspondence reviewed by Reuters.

The four sources said the report had been delayed as a result, and a comparison of the internal version of the report obtained by Reuters and the final version published late Friday showed several differences.

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[SpeareChucker]

I think Tom Cotton is making a valid point,
we don't know if the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak
was a lab accident or purposeful, but the
subsequent cover-up (and pressure on the
WHO and their trading partners) was
purposeful because they knew that it
would result in an economic calamity and,
since tyrannies tend to be insecure in their
position, that they wanted to ensure that
their collapse was not an isolated economic
event in the world economy, but a relative,
shared pain and misery for the "Global Community."

Who knows, maybe this, too, is why our "intellectuals"
prefer to blame Trump instead of the Chinese; the
embarrassment should be a shared social "commodity"