Current Affairs China and its treatment of minorities

[davek]

I liked how they covered it up myself, then felt guilty so trying to buy their way out of trouble.

it should be applauded really shouldn’t it mate?

Guilt? For a virus that may or may not have made its appearance in their territory?

They reacted with ruthless efficiency, making all the right decisions after a fashion. Their actions gave our government and others in Europe a couple of months to learn lessons and prepare. They didn't though. If you want to start throwing blame around look closer to home.

And China's largesse is helping people here in the west. I could give a flying one if they make diplomatic capital out of doing that.

 

[Brennan]

If anyone thinks we're governed better than the Chinese are they need their heads feeling.

Take a look at the telly or out the window.

You’re calling the Tories murderers and scum for their actions over Covid while defending a government which has wrongfully imprisoned millions of Muslims in internment camps for years.

You’ve properly lost it.

 

[tsubaki]

Guilt? For a virus that may or may not have made its appearance in their territory?

They reacted with ruthless efficiency, making all the right decisions after a fashion. Their actions gave our government and others in Europe a couple of months to learn lessons and prepare. They didn't though. If you want to start throwing blame around look closer to home.

And China's largesse is helping people here in the west. I could give a flying one if they make diplomatic capital out of doing that.

dave the ruthless efficiency consisted of threatening doctors who tried to raise the alarm, then waiting three weeks before locking Wuhan down

 

[MikeH72]

Communists are odd, terrifying people.

 

[Brennan]

dave the ruthless efficiency consisted of threatening doctors who tried to raise the alarm, then waiting three weeks before locking Wuhan down

Yep.

27th December - Outbreak reported by hospitals to Wuhan CDC

23rd January - Wuhan lockdown.

Between which millions upon millions of people travelled in and out due to Chinese New Year.

“Ruthless efficiency”

 

[tsubaki]

Communists are odd, terrifying people.

communists are usually sound but in power they invariably turn into the very thing that got the revolution to happen in the first place

 

[davek]

You’re calling the Tories murderers and scum for their actions over Covid while defending a government which has wrongfully imprisoned millions of Muslims in internment camps for years.

You’ve properly lost it.

I'm praising them for something very specific: their reaction (and action) in their fight against this virus.

Maybe you devalue any aid to countries in Europe and Africa that is helping save lives, but I dont.

When anyone puts ideological purity over the well being of other human beings it's they/you who has "lost it".

 

[davek]

dave the ruthless efficiency consisted of threatening doctors who tried to raise the alarm, then waiting three weeks before locking Wuhan down

And you think these clowns in our government, who are presiding over a calamity that's killing our nurses and doctors, are on any higher moral ground than the Chinese?

 

[tsubaki]

And you think these clowns in our government, who are presiding over a calamity that's killing our nurses and doctors, are on any higher moral ground than the Chinese?

Absolutely not, which is why I can’t understand why the Chinese Government are getting a pass it seems.

 

[Billysgingham.]

Guilt? For a virus that may or may not have made its appearance in their territory?

They reacted with ruthless efficiency, making all the right decisions after a fashion. Their actions gave our government and others in Europe a couple of months to learn lessons and prepare. They didn't though. If you want to start throwing blame around look closer to home.

And China's largesse is helping people here in the west. I could give a flying one if they make diplomatic capital out of doing that.

Mate it's quite the polar opposite of this post.

 

[Brennan]

Mate it's quite the polar opposite of this post.

He has no grasp of the facts.

Beteween the 5th and 17th of January the Chinese CDC registered zero new cases... zero !

"Ruthless efficiency"

 

[Billysgingham.]

He has no grasp of the facts.

Beteween the 5th and 17th of January the Chinese CDC registered zero new cases... zero !

"Ruthless efficiency"

I hoping its bait mate to be honest.

 

[Brennan]

I'm praising them for something very specific: their reaction (and action) in their fight against this virus.

Maybe you devalue any aid to countries in Europe and Africa that is helping save lives, but I dont.

When anyone puts ideological purity over the well being of other human beings it's they/you who has "lost it".

So its okay to hound Tory MPs as murderers and scum based on their Covid strategy but you're happy to praise a government which has locked up millions due to their religion or ethnicity, because you believe they handled the Covid outbreak well.

Great stuff.

 

[davek]

Mate it's quite the polar opposite of this post.

In what way?

 

[davek]

Absolutely not, which is why I can’t understand why the Chinese Government are getting a pass it seems.

They're not getting a pass from me. They're getting appropriate praise for leading the fight against the virus, and then holding out a helping hand to other countries.

I cant be arsed with all the neo-cold war BS. That's an irrelevancy. If some people have drunk mightily from the Washington and London Kool Aid fountain so much that they cant see aid as aid but, primarilly, as a means for "world domination", then I feel sorry for them. They obvioulsy have (to use a phrase aimed at me here) "lost the plot".