By Donald A. Loucks, TEM
Submitted 24 February, 2020
China is, once again, making serious impact on American life. The long-term affect has been financial. Unfortunately, we have become accustomed to the
repeated declarations of trade imbalance since it has gone on for such a long time.
But there is something sinister hiding in that fact: Power
Chinese strategy has always been rooted in methodical, patient, and thorough planning. An example of this was the building of numerous artificial islands in the South China Sea, claiming them as sovereign territory, and then trying to restrict shipping, military and air passage through that heavily-travelled region. Have we heard much about that lately?
The silent warfare China is waging against the United States is occurring in the halls of Congress. Many former U.S. legislators are now or were lobbyists for China such as Charles Boustany, John Boehner, Jon Christenson, David Firestein, Matt Salmon and many others. It is shocking that so many former congressmen make significant amounts of money helping a Communist rival strengthen its position in the world by using our legislative process against us.
But the shocking outbreak of a deadly virus has now overshadowed other China activities.
The China news of the day is the Corona Virus outbreak that originated near a Communist Chinese germ warfare research and development facility in Wuhan.
Let's see, the Chinese open market places sell food stuffs, animals, and just about everything else in such unsanitary gatherings adjacent to the "research" facility. What could possibly go wrong?
Virus experts have gone on record that the Corona Virus must have been created in a laboratory. The "corona" part of its name comes from the radiating, crown-like parts of the virus that attach to and allow the virus to attack human cells. And is apparently more deadly than the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- also a corona virus) outbreak of 2003.
This from the World Health Organization: "SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as- yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002."
So, if this deadly virus "escaped" from the level 4 (highest security rating) germ warfare lab in Wuhan, how did that happen? Three things come to mind. First, it was deliberately released by the Chinese Government -- not likely. Second, it was inadvertently released by faulty containment/decontamination -- very possible. Third, it was a deliberate act by Chinese dissidents -- very possible.
In any case, the fact that the ChiCom government is developing such viruses is an indication germ warfare is alive and well there. There are two aspects to this sort of development.
If a germ weapon is developed, an antidote must also be developed. To not do so, means that the forces and population of the attacking country would be equally as vulnerable as the intended target.
Chicken vs egg. The weapon must be created first before a counter to that weapon can be made. That means that a period of vulnerability exists between the weapon and the cure. On the upside, the death rate from the new Chinese virus appears to be about 2%.
What we should be watching now is who comes to the defense of the Chinese, and who in the United States will be assigned blame. Would anyone care to speculate who that person might be? I have an idea.