State of China Global Times The newspaper warned Europe that the purchase of Chinese coronavirus vaccines made in the United States was “risky” and that, without significantly transforming “the Western system and lifestyle”, policies to contain the pandemic would fail.
China is the home country of the Chinese coronavirus; many scientists have speculated that the mutant coronavirus may have originated in a “wet market” in Wuhan – a traditional Asian open-air meat market known for its unhygienic conditions. The World Health Organization (WHO) approved the reopening of its wet markets by China in April, despite animal rights groups and concerned scientists calling for its permanent closure.
“Wet markets” did not appear in the Global Times‘editorial on Tuesday, entitled “It is risky for Europe to bet on the US COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] Vaccines. “The article instead condemned the supposed” lifestyle “choices in the free world to, say the writers, unnecessarily extend the life of the pandemic.
“The Western system and lifestyle exposed their public health gaps during the epidemic, but Western society is not willing to address the gaps, whether in terms of politics or public opinion,” said Global Times alleged. “The West also lacks an initiative to correct the gaps. COVID-19 has been plaguing Western society for almost a year, but the West has shown very limited improvement in the organization of the COVID-19 struggle. “
The article continues to criticize the United States for acting too slowly to develop a vaccine against Chinese coronavirus. The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two vaccines so far – by American pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna – for widespread public use. Prior to these approvals, there was no vaccine for any known type of coronavirus.
The Chinese Communist Party claims to be developing several vaccines against the Chinese coronavirus, but none have received general approval. The experts expressed concern about the safety of the most advanced Chinese candidate vaccine, “CoronaVac”, from Chinese company SinoVac.
Disproving concerns in Beijing, Chinese companies began signing agreements with BioNTech, Pfizer’s partner, last week, to import the American vaccine.
“It seems that Washington really doesn’t care that more people get infected and die because of their slow distribution of vaccines,” Global Times accused. “For the United States, the results are more important than the process, regardless of how cruel the process may be.”
O Times appears to blame the United States for the growing number of coronavirus cases in the UK.
“But the situation in the UK shows that US vaccines cannot solve the urgent problem. Although the United Kingdom was the first country to start using American vaccines, the number of vaccines was too small to work, ”said the advertising medium. “This time, in addition to being isolated by other countries, the UK has not even received messages of support from the leaders of its allies. … The UK has become a lonely island in the midst of the violent epidemic. “
“It would be very dangerous if European countries put all their hopes on US vaccines,” said the Global Times warned. “If European countries are completely dependent on vaccines from the United States, then a vaccine order will be formed and will fully incorporate ‘America First'”.
The editorial concludes, ironically, with an appeal not to “do the [Chinese coronavirus] ideological struggle. “
Elsewhere on the pages of Global Times on Wednesday, the newspaper said that Christians in China – an atheist state that violently represses Christian populations – would make the most of their Christmas holidays in China because the blockages would not limit their mobility. The newspaper cited a significant drop in orders for Christmas decorations made in China as a sign that Western Christians would have a “dark Christmas season”.
“The rare decline in China’s Christmas exports also reflects the reality of the prevention and control of out-of-control epidemics in Europe and the United States,” said a “specialist” approved by the Communist Party. Times. “This year, Europe and the United States will have one of the worst Christmas in years.”
“In another indication of how life is returning to normal, many foreigners may have a better Christmas in China than in their home countries. In Shanghai, many foreigners have already started to celebrate ”, proclaimed the newspaper.
The Chinese Communist Party regularly disparages other parts of the world for having inferior cultural values than Han Chinese. The party’s propaganda media blames the United States, for example, for the opioid crisis, dismissing China’s role as the world’s largest manufacturer of fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid responsible for a large number of deaths in America.
In 2017, Chinese state media blamed Russian culture, not Communism’s failed ideology, for the fall of the Soviet Union, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party would never have the same fate.
A year later, a column in the Global Times he stated that “it may sound racist”, but Brazilians are inferior to Han Chinese and will never be able to compete in the global market because of their culture.
Brazil has become a key player in the development of CoronaVac, creating a crease for the Global Times’ proposition. Brazil has allowed some of the largest candidate vaccine tests to take place in its territory, helping Sinovac to get its vaccine approved on the market. Anvisa, the National Health Surveillance Agency, announced last week that China “was not being transparent” about the results of its studies and that, if approached, it could not currently offer emergency use authorization for the biological cocktail.
“This vaccine has already received authorization for emergency use in China since June this year. The Chinese criteria for issuing emergency use authorization in China are not transparent and there is no information available on the criteria currently used by Chinese agencies to make this decision, “said Anvisa.
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