Chinese incompetency has completed ruined the year of sports, and possibly humanity

At the end of the day, the third world gonna third world and putting your faith in them at scale is gonna backfire. I have a lot more faith in secular democracies like India who produce a lot of tech leaders we see in the US than the hush hush communist we can't say anything Chinese lack of humanity. What's a quarterly bottom line when trillions have to be spent to compensate for it?

Let's deal with humans, not cyborgs.

Already, a lot of work is being done to re-assess the logistics of moving quite a few manufacturing sectors out of China. Trump may actually get his wish to see some of that manufacturing brought in domestically. The dems are in on this and just as furious -- when the dems and repubs agree on something, things can get done pretty quickly. Still have to see how the virus plays out in waves over the next 2...3 months, but don't expect the West to go flocking back to China like nothing happened. And there will be something like increased tariffs for major corporations like Apple who get their glass etc. from there , global loopholes closed so can't move the offices from SF to Seychelles or Malaga to get their discount.

 

BBC News China Correspondent -
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52026908


Can we trust China’s numbers?


China has a bad record on official government numbers that the world believes. It’s not down to incompetence, it's by design. Communist party dominance sometimes depends on living up to forecasts or targets - even if they aren’t actually met - and, conversely, burying reality when it shines a light on wrong doing or, worse still, failure that puts a dent in the party’s credibility to govern.

So China comes to the table, so to speak, with much scepticism awaiting it. Its GDP figures have long been regarded as more of a guide to the trends in its economy but not an accurate reflection of its actual growth.

Doubts about the official government figures on coronavirus, that are collated at 3am every morning, are fuelled by several specific issues: First, there was the (admitted) cover up and subsequent three-week delay in publicising and acting upon the outbreak.

Second, the empirical integrity of the numbers has been repeatedly questioned; just a few days ago officials in Hubei revealed that they didn’t count asymptomatic positive cases or those that didn’t require hospitalisation.

Third - and this may appear simplistic but it's an obvious question - could it really be the case that a couple of weeks ago for a short period of time there were no new confirmed cases - zero - of the virus in all of mainland China, except Hubei?

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the G7 group of big economies have discussed China’s "intentional disinformation campaign" on the new coronavirus during a virtual meeting.

He says all the leaders were aware of the campaign, which, he says, Beijing continued to engage in so as to deflect attention from what really happened.

Mr Pompeo said the world needed transparency and accurate information from China in order to fight the pandemic.

Some Chinese officials have suggested that the virus was brought to China by the US military.

Mr Pompeo dismissed that as "crazy talking".

He also appeared to dismiss China’s sales of medical supplies to combat the pandemic, saying Beijing was now trying to claim that it was the "white hat" (showing moral leadership).

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China has magically made everything disappear! No new cases! More masks for the world! The leader is here! You racist!