Video: Western media forced to back down after wishing China Delta failure

Video: Western media forced to back down after wishing China Delta failure
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Western media had a field day when the delta variant of COVID-19 started to spread around China last month, with many suggesting this could be the end of China’s “zero-tolerance” strategy, and some even going as far as to suggest the Chinese government would fall.

Five weeks later, and China posted zero new locally transmitted cases. It appears “Communist China” has again succeeded where so many others have failed, forcing Western media to back peddle and admit the government in the world’s most populous nation is on top of its game, and able to quickly mobilize and defeat any threat.

In this episode of Reports on China, I talk about the Western media flip-flops on China and delta, and wonders if there could be a silver lining to the unfair treatment China gets from the media overseas.

Professor John Walsh in San Francisco: This is the great untold story of 2019-2021 in the West. With minimal disruption after a tight 76 dat lockdown in Wuhan (and far less intense measures elsewhere) there have been very few deaths. After Wuhan the toll stood at less than 4700 deaths and it remains at that level today – a number confirmed by counts of excess deaths as published in a peer-reviewed study in the British Medical Journal. See my article: https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/learn-from-the-east-a-major-lesson-of-the-pandemic/ (It also appeared in CounterPunch.org and elsewhere.)

This is the result of the outstanding public health measures adopted by China. The deaths in the US and EU are the result of the governments of the West refusing to learn from China and instead belittling it. How do you think the American people would feel that all the deaths and sickness of the last 2 years are the result of the governments of the West refusing to adopt the public health measures of China’s. I would say it is enough to provoke something very like a revolution. That is one reason why the West is determined that China’s success story not be fully told and things like the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy Theory are trotted out to distract us from that central truth.