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In early April, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accused Taiwan of launching a “campaign” of racist attacks against him. “When the whole black community was insulted, when Africa was insulted, then I don’t tolerate it”, he said, adding, “people are crossing the line”. (The Taiwanese heatedly denied Tedros’s claim.)
Meanwhile, in a devastatingly ironic overlap, many in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have decided to blame the thousands of Africans living there for spreading the novel coronavirus. Some restaurants barred black people, while officials forced black people into more onerous quarantines than Chinese and white foreigners — including occasionally confiscating passports — regardless of where they’ve recently traveled.… Seguir leyendo »
The covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe injury to Africa’s development prospects and worsened the conditions of its poor and vulnerable. Although there are calls for voluntary international aid to support the continent during this difficult time, this is far from the best solution.
The continent must be accorded damages and liability compensation from China, the rich and powerful country that failed to transparently and effectively manage this global catastrophe. Africa’s economic gains since the last global crisis have been eroded. It is time to make offending rich countries pay the poor ones a global risk burden tax for delaying their rise out of poverty.… Seguir leyendo »
Así como la crisis del COVID-19 avanza estrepitosamente también braman los debates sobre el papel que jugó China en ella. En base a lo que se sabe, es claro que algunas autoridades chinas cometieron un grave error a fines de diciembre y principios de enero, cuando intentaron impedir que se divulgara información sobre el brote del coronavirus en Wuhan, silenciando inclusive a los trabajadores de la salud que quisieron hacer sonar la alarma. Los líderes de China tendrán que convivir con estos errores, aun si logran resolver la crisis y adoptar medidas adecuadas para prevenir un futuro brote.
Lo que resulta menos claro es por qué otros países piensan que de alguna manera los beneficia seguir refiriéndose a los errores iniciales de China, en lugar de trabajar para encontrar soluciones.… Seguir leyendo »
As the COVID-19 crisis roars on, so have debates about China’s role in it. Based on what is known, it is clear that some Chinese officials made a major error in late December and early January, when they tried to prevent disclosures of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, even silencing healthcare workers who tried to sound the alarm.
China’s leaders will have to live with these mistakes, even if they succeed in resolving the crisis and adopting adequate measures to prevent a future outbreak. What is less clear is why other countries think it is in their interest to keep referring to China’s initial errors, rather than working toward solutions.… Seguir leyendo »
If there is going to be a silver lining to the covid-19 crisis, it should involve the plucky democracy of Taiwan getting the international support it deserves. The country of 23 million people has dealt with the pandemic as well as any. As of Tuesday, Taiwan had 393 confirmed cases and six deaths, extremely low numbers for a nation on China’s doorstep. Taiwan is now even helping the rest of the world as well by churning out millions of face masks and sending them all over the globe.
Like other countries that responded effectively, Taiwan had a bad experience with SARS in 2003, so it was better prepared for an epidemic.… Seguir leyendo »
Aunque la crisis de la Covid-19 es, sobre todo, sanitaria, no deja de lado las rivalidades geopolíticas actuales, que persisten e incluso muestran más vehemencia desde hace varias semanas. La rivalidad comercial entre China y Estados Unidos, que arrastra desde hace más de dos años, y a la que se ha unido una rivalidad tecnológica (sobre todo en el caso de la red 5G de Huawei), sigue siendo palpable. El acuerdo comercial preliminar llamado de “fase 1”, firmado hace tres meses y cuyo propósito era calmar las próximas negociaciones comerciales, más ambiciosas, está empezando a entrar en vigor ahora, con un retraso que se debe en parte a la crisis, y no marca el fin de las disputas entre Pekín y Washington.… Seguir leyendo »
The Chinese Communist Party manipulates its statistics. This is neither an opinion nor a revelation: it’s a simple fact, critical to understanding China today. Chairman Xi Jinping demands that Chinese journalists prioritize loyalty to the Party over truth or accuracy. Li Keqiang, who now runs China’s economy as the premier, once smilingly told the U.S. ambassador that most Chinese statistics are “for reference only”, and that statistics on gross domestic product especially are “man-made”.
Up until a few months ago, this felt like a domestic Chinese issue. Sure, American investment firms have always struggled with finding accurate data. American journalists have sometimes repeated misleading Chinese statistics.… Seguir leyendo »
It didn’t take long before India’s response to the coronavirus was tainted by the kind of discrimination and Islamophobia that has characterized the nationalist administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The hashtags #CoronaJihad and #BioJihad have inundated Twitter recently. It all stems from cases of covid-19 reported at a Muslim event.
On Sunday, the Indian government linked more than a thousand cases to the Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary group that held its annual meeting in a community center in Nizamuddin from March 8-10, days before India declared a health emergency and called for a national lockdown. While most people, including Muslims, agree that holding the annual meeting was irresponsible and endangered many lives, the event has faced a disproportional amount of criticism while generating a cascade of vitriol.… Seguir leyendo »
Pendant que le monde se confine et enterre ses morts emportés par le Covid-19, le président chinois Xi Jinping triomphe. La propagande présente sans relâche le commandant suprême victorieux de «la guerre du peuple» contre le coronavirus.
Et pourtant, après l’épidémie du Sras en 2003, après celle de peste porcine, après les divers virus qui ont attaqué les poulets et les autres catastrophes sanitaires qui sont nées en Chine populaire, nous pensions que les autorités de Pékin auraient tiré des leçons. Et nous sommes aujourd’hui obligés d’admettre que les logiques du pouvoir chinois ne sont pas celles attendues par la France et l’Europe qui en ont fait un partenaire privilégié.… Seguir leyendo »
Hace apenas un mes, China estaba al centro de la epidemia del coronavirus COVID-19. Cada día se informaba de miles de nuevas infecciones. Los hospitales estaban colapsados. La población moría de a cientos. Nadie podía salir de sus hogares. Pero el draconiano confinamiento ordenado por el gobierno parece haber funcionado: la enfermedad parece ahora bajo control. Y, aparentemente, las autoridades chinas han pasado por alto sus lecciones más básicas.
Para ver esto, vale la pena revisar cómo manejaron la crisis. Tras enterarse de que un nuevo coronavirus había surgido en Wuhan, en la provincia de Hubei, el primer instinto de las autoridades locales fue, como sabemos, suprimir la información.… Seguir leyendo »
Will the coronavirus outbreak undermine the Chinese Communist Party’s rule? For China-watchers, this is a big question at the moment. Public health crises pose unique challenges to the Chinese government, not least due to the lack of free information flow and misaligned political incentives of central and local officials.
Some analysts believe this health crisis has revived political dissent. They point to new writings by intellectuals like political activist Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and civil rights advocate; and Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, both of whom have criticized the government response to the outbreak and political injustice in general.… Seguir leyendo »
Nada hay nuevo bajo el sol. El autor de Qohéleth cinceló una expresión que tiene la fortuna de no parecer sacada de una charla sobre coaching. La frase resulta aplicable al coronavirus. Las nuevas rutas abiertas en el siglo XIII por exploradores italianos –Marco Polo fue el más célebre de aquellos pioneros– trajeron de Extremo Oriente, además de la seda y las especias, la peste negra, cuyo foco original hervía en China. Varias centurias más tarde, a través de una nueva Ruta de la Seda, llega otra epidemia. Pero no forcemos la analogía. Nada hace pensar que las consecuencias de la enfermedad del Covid-19 resulten similares a la plaga que asoló el Medioevo; las condiciones sanitarias de aquel mundo no guardan comparación con las de la actualidad.… Seguir leyendo »
Un ami indien m’apprend que chez lui on parle de «communovirus». Comment ne pas l’avoir déjà pensé ? C’est l’évidence même ! Et quelle admirable et totale ambivalence : le virus qui vient du communisme, le virus qui nous communise. Voilà qui est beaucoup plus fécond que le dérisoire corona qui évoque de vieilles histoires monarchiques ou impériales. D’ailleurs c’est à détrôner, sinon décapiter le corona que doit s’employer le communo.
C’est bien ce qu’il semble faire selon sa première acception puisqu’en effet il provient du plus grand pays du monde dont le régime est officiellement communiste. Il ne l’est pas seulement à titre officiel : comme l’a déclaré le président Xi Jinping, la gestion de l’épidémie virale démontre la supériorité du «système socialiste à caractéristiques chinoises».… Seguir leyendo »
Considero al presidente de China culpable de ser el origen de la epidemia mundial del virus de Wuhan, el cual ha causado miles de muertes en todo el mundo y una recesión económica que asolará nuestro planeta durante varios años. En principio, los tribunales internacionales, como el de La Haya, juzgan solo los crímenes de guerra en el sentido estricto del término. Pero la epidemia mundial contra un adversario esquivo es una forma de guerra de naturaleza bacteriológica.
El tribunal que debería acusar a Xi Jinping podría añadir a su expediente el genocidio que se está perpetrando actualmente contra los uigures.… Seguir leyendo »
China has reported fewer and fewer confirmed coronavirus cases over the past three weeks, culminating in a statement that Wuhan had seen zero new local cases for four days in a row, from March 18 to 21. Elsewhere in China, 46 new cases were reported on March 22, all but one attributed to travelers arriving from abroad.
What can we learn from Chinese statistics, and can we trust those numbers?
Numbers have long defined Chinese politics
Chinese officials pay particular attention to numbers, especially key statistical measures such as GDP growth, fiscal revenue and investment, which have long been core parts of the Communist Party’s system for evaluating officials.… Seguir leyendo »
It’s crucial for our health and safety that the United States push back against the Chinese government’s efforts to rewrite the history of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also crucial we don’t fuel racism or stigmatize Chinese citizens or Chinese Americans while doing so. The key to accomplishing both goals is to separate the way we talk about the Chinese people from the way we talk about their rulers in Beijing.
President Trump insists on calling coronavirus “the Chinese virus”. His rationale for doing so is simplistic but technically accurate: Chinese officials are intentionally spreading the lie the virus may have originated in the United States to deflect blame from their own early failings.… Seguir leyendo »
In early 1952, the three-year-old People’s Republic of China faced a public relations crisis in the middle of the Korean War. After agreeing to let prisoners of war decide where they wanted to go after hostilities ended, officials were dismayed to learn that more than half of the 170,000 Chinese POWs had opted not to return to mainland China, an embarrassing public rejection of the communist system taking root there.
Desperate to divert the world’s attention from the POW debacle, on Feb. 22, 1952, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, claimed that U.S. forces were waging biological warfare against China.… Seguir leyendo »
The State Department pushed back last week on Chinese statements suggesting that the coronavirus originated with U.S. military personnel in Wuhan — rather than a live animal market in Wuhan. Lijian Zhao, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, posted statements to this effect on Twitter and Chinese social media, but offered no substantive evidence.
Last week, President Trump called the coronavirus a “foreign” virus. Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has repeatedly mentioned a debunked conspiracy theory that a Chinese bioweapons lab in Hubei created the virus.
As the United States and China apparently ramp up efforts to blame each other for the outbreak, the two governments responded to the coronavirus itself in one surprisingly similar way: Each government’s official response has been riddled with costly communication delays.… Seguir leyendo »
In Washington, there’s a lot of talk about how the coronavirus crisis could increase the push for more economic decoupling with China. But the Chinese government is thinking about it in exactly the opposite way. Beijing is preparing to use the crisis to advance China’s economic strategy against us. We better start taking notice.
For three years, the Trump administration has been trying to pressure China to stop its economic aggression and unfair trade practices, using tariffs, negotiations and measures to protect U.S. industries. Beijing has hated this strategy from the start and only reluctantly struck a “Phase One” trade deal that addresses few of these issues.… Seguir leyendo »
General Secretary Xi Jinping this week made his first visit to Wuhan since the covid-19 outbreak upended all corners of Chinese society. Xi’s trip was designed to reassure the public that their government has the virus contained — and things will get back to normal.
But China’s propaganda apparatus has been in high gear since January. What is the official playbook, and has the propaganda been effective?
Focus on success — and heroism
Studies show modern authoritarian governments increasingly turn to information manipulation, rather than relying on ideological indoctrination or physical repression to maintain rule. They do this to generate an image of competence and increase public support.… Seguir leyendo »
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