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China threatens to stop Australian imports
China has threatened to stop importing wine and beef from Australia if the Morrison government continues to push for an inquiry into the origin of the global coronavirus outbreak.
But Labor is backing the government's calls for an independent inquiry and has dismissed concerns raised by the Chinese ambassador.
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong says Beijing should have nothing to fear.
"The Chinese ambassador spoke about not wanting to resort to recrimination, division, and suspicion," Senator Wong told the ABC on Monday.
"That is precisely the reason why we want to make sure the international community can be assured that we get to the bottom of the origin of the virus."
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6736562/china-threatens-to-stop-australian-imports/?cs=14231
Covid-19 Occupational Risk Scores
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A former neighbor of Joe Biden's accuser Tara Reade has come forward to corroborate her sexual assault account, saying Reade discussed the allegations in detail in the mid-1990s
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4
Maria Bartiromo Interview with Senator Tom Cotton
MARIA BARTIROMO:
So, a deliberate move because they expected this virus to cause economic contraction in China? Tell me what they expected in China and what they didn’t want to see from, they didn’t want to happen with the rest of the world being fine.
TOM COTTON:
So, Maria, again, it was obvious by mid-December to Chinese authorities that this virus was highly contagious and very deadly. They also knew that were this virus to spread outside Wuhan, it would wreak economic havoc throughout China. And, in fact, China had the first contraction in the first quarter of this year since the Cultural Revolution ended in the 1970s.
I believe the Chinese Communist leaders, when they were aware of those facts by mid-January, made the conscious decision not to explain to the world that it was transmissible between humans, not to shut down travel, not to ask for American or other kind of international scientific help, but to allow this virus to escape their borders, because if they were going to suffer an economic contraction, they were not going to allow the world to continue to prosper and China be the only country whose economy was declining. They might see an absolute decline in their economy, but they refused to see a relative decline. Especially relative to the United States.
MARIA BARTIROMO:
In other words, they didn’t want to see the Chinese economy contract twenty percent with the rest of the world contracting two percent?
TOM COTTON:
That’s exactly right. I mean, it was inevitable that we would have economic impacts all around the world because so much of the world has out-sourced manufacturing productive capacity to China, so, it was inevitable if China’s economy was declining that it would have effects all around the world.
But what was not inevitable is that we would lose twenty-six million jobs in America in a month. I mean, if China had been up-front about this virus from the very beginning, some studies suggest that they could have reduced the number of cases in China itself by sixty-five to even ninety percent.
Imagine what that would have done for the spread of the virus not only in China, but more importantly, for us all around the world. But once they knew that it was spreading all around China, they were not going to take the responsible action of bringing in international scientists and shutting down international air travel. Rather, they were going to let the virus escape their borders so the rest of the world would suffer along with China.
MARIA BARTIROMO:
So, one of the issues that we’ve spoken about in the past is this intellectual property theft that has been going on for decades. China – the Chinese communist party continues to steal intellectual property. You believe that they are stealing intellectual property right now as we speak. Let’s talk a bit about that because the whole world is looking for vaccine and I wonder is China trying now to come out of this, trying to save face, look better than the rest of the world, while coming up with a vaccine before the United States? What’s happening right now with regards to that kind of science?
TOM COTTON:
Well, Maria, the Chinese communist party has been stealing America’s intellectual property for decades and they’re not going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic. You know, in almost every state in the Union, there are active cases against Chinese nationals. In Arkansas, for instance, they’re accused of having stolen proprietary genomes of our farmers in east Arkansas.
But in the middle of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual property in the world? It’s the research that our great laboratories and life science companies are doing on prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and ultimately a vaccine.
So, I have little doubt that the Chinese intelligence services are actively trying to steal America’s intellectual property as it relates to the virus they unleashed on the world. Because, of course, they want to be the country that claims credit for finding those drugs or finding a vaccine and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world.
https://presentdangerchina.org/2020/04/maria-bartiromo-interview-with-senator-tom-cotton/
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1254821664967348224
CCTV broadcasted at the time of news broadcast today-International Review: Pompeo who spread the "political virus" is turning himself into a public enemy of mankind. The article finally emphasizes that Pompeo is willing to go his own way and continue to put political private interests above public interests. Then he will be abandoned by the American people and will remain infamous in the history of American diplomacy. Smiling face with sunglasses
It's too hot. For the first time, the Chinese Communist Party criticized the current senior US officials on the news hookup!
https://twitter.com/caijingxiang/status/1254771550269476865
Joe Biden to Hold Virtual Women’s Town Hall