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0 pointsguardiangod6y ago0 comments

You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat-

1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test.

2. (In Chinese there's no word for 'flu', only 'cold', or 'transmissible cold'.) The 'cold' virus originated in US last year and killed more than 10k Americans before US sent special force to Wuhan to infect us Chinese! Even the head of CDC admitted it (see article).

3. A 5 member US special force went to Wuhan in November. They returned to US and all died in suspicious circumstances.

4. Now all the western countries are sending infected agents into China to blow the epidemic again.

You might notice a common theme that US is the enemy, and they are the originator of all bad things that happened to China. This is not a coincidence.

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knzhou6y ago

Sigh. Each dumb conspiracy theory in Chinese social media has an equal and opposite dumb conspiracy theory in American social media.

guardiangodOP6y ago

Look I know this is dumb and all. Other Chinese relatives/friends (usually oversea) are trying to combat all these fake news. But 2 things-

1. WeChat is heavily patrolled and monitored by the PRC censors. If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour (or seconds. It's very enlightening to see the sensitive terms get filtered in real time.)

In fact, in the last week or so, I've been getting more conspiracy forwards. The spread of rumors on this topic on WeChat is speeding up.

2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.

knzhou6y ago

> If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour

Reddit tries to stop conspiracy theories with quarantines and bans. But they're rapidly spreading anyway.

> 2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.

It really is symmetric: Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, has been on Fox saying exactly this.

Fox also has other people on saying it was a joint North Korean and Chinese bioweapon, made solely to attack America, but released initially in China as a decoy. Fox is the most watched cable news channel in America.

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taiwanboy6y ago

The CIA rumour is no less raised by the CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY spokesman https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-arm...

knzhou6y ago

And the equal and opposite rumor is being raised by an American Senator: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-co...

knolax6y ago

...on Twitter.

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spectramax6y ago

Why does every criticism of China have to have a corollary accompanying US criticism? Can we not just talk about one issue at a time instead of muddling up the waters?

pishpash6y ago

In an ideal world, everyone criticizes things they know the most about and can do the most about, which is whatever is happening in their own country. When this is inverted, there is usually some ulterior psychological need and the criticism ends up not being anything genuine or actionable but a pissing contest. Anything goes in a pissing contest. Why are you surprised?

indemnity6y ago

Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.

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0 pointsguardiangod6y ago0 comments

You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat-

1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test.

3. A 5 member US special force went to Wuhan in November. They returned to US and all died in suspicious circumstances.

4. Now all the western countries are sending infected agents into China to blow the epidemic again.

You might notice a common theme that US is the enemy, and they are the originator of all bad things that happened to China. This is not a coincidence.

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knzhou6y ago

Sigh. Each dumb conspiracy theory in Chinese social media has an equal and opposite dumb conspiracy theory in American social media.

guardiangodOP6y ago

Look I know this is dumb and all. Other Chinese relatives/friends (usually oversea) are trying to combat all these fake news. But 2 things-

In fact, in the last week or so, I've been getting more conspiracy forwards. The spread of rumors on this topic on WeChat is speeding up.

2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.

knzhou6y ago

> If the PRC doesn't want these rumors to circulate, these rumors would not last more than a hour

Reddit tries to stop conspiracy theories with quarantines and bans. But they're rapidly spreading anyway.

> 2. I don't see US' Secretary of State accusing China of intentionally creating the virus.

It really is symmetric: Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas, has been on Fox saying exactly this.

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taiwanboy6y ago

The CIA rumour is no less raised by the CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY spokesman https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-official-says-us-arm...

knzhou6y ago

And the equal and opposite rumor is being raised by an American Senator: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-co...

knolax6y ago

...on Twitter.

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spectramax6y ago

Why does every criticism of China have to have a corollary accompanying US criticism? Can we not just talk about one issue at a time instead of muddling up the waters?

pishpash6y ago

indemnity6y ago

Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.

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