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| Dilip Barua (centre) opens the Bangladesh China Silk Road forum |
by Dilip Barua
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh
(ML)
The US
establishment and their thinktanks seem to have decided to consider China as
their number one enemy – so the US government and its media are making a concerted effort to propagate
fabricated and fictitious news to confuse and mislead the people on any lame
excuse. On this basis, Donald Trump’s activities and speeches are always well
calculated and do everything with a long-term perspective. The forthcoming days
may be more critical and unstable with respect to politics and economy of the
world, for the next presidential election of the USA and the aftermath of the coronavirus
pandemic.
History tells us that the USA was the first to introduce
the concept of globalisation. The USA compelled developed and under-developed
countries to introduce economic and political reforms to comply with the policy
of globalisation. But President Donald Trump has now disassociated the USA from
the world’s bodies. He didn’t attend the world economic conference in 2017. He
withdrew from UNICEF and stepped out from the World Climate Forum. The German
leader told the Munich Security Conference: “Our greatest friend the USA at
present doesn’t believe in the concept of international community.”
President Trump recently blamed the Director General
of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for “mismanaging and covering up the
spread of Coronavirus”. He also alleged that the Director General of the WHO,
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had a close relationship with China and that he had
delayed declaring the outbreak a public health emergency. Even though these
allegations are untrue, Trump used this excuse to halt the US funding for the
WHO.
The Chinese authorities informed the WHO and world
related agencies including the USA about the coronavirus outbreak on the 31st
December 2019. Chinese scientists maintained close contact with the WHO and the
international medical community, and publicly shared the first genome sequence
of the virus that made it clear that the outbreak was caused by the novel
coronavirus, also known as SARS-Cov2, which causes COVID-19.
In the meantime, the WHO sent a technical delegation
to China headed by Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan that included a US
representative. During the visit the Chinese side were extremely open to
dialogue and discussion. They shared their expertise with the WHO and medical
teams all over the world.
After proper investigation and research, the WHO
confirmed that the coronavirus originated from animals and not in a laboratory.
So, it is crystal clear that Chinese government and the WHO were transparent,
fair and technically informed when they reported back to everyone, including the
Americans, about the characteristics and origin of the coronavirus.
The Chinese government had taken all the necessary
steps as far as possible to control the outbreak and to protect Chinese citizens
from the aggressive grip of the coronavirus in a very short period. China’s well-organised
effort in the fight against the pandemic was a huge achievement.
The Director General of the WHO praised China for its
excellent management. President Donald Trump also praised the Chinese
government’s efforts in a tweet on the 7th February 2020. Later,
however, he held China responsible for the outbreak of the infection. Trump sarcastically
called COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” whilst trying to give impression that this
virus would not affect the USA. In doing this he engaged in blame-game politics
rather than taking the necessary steps to control the pandemic, spreading
fabricated and baseless propaganda to blame China rather than to save the lives
of US citizens.
Perhaps Donald Trump’s hidden agenda is to play the
anti-China card and use the coronavirus issue as a political weapon in the forthcoming
US presidential election.
The peoples of the world, especially those in the USA,
can see that Trump is not at all serious in trying to protect the American
public.
Trump was indifferent about taking necessary steps to
combating COVID-19, although he had enough time. New York governor Andrew Cuomo
recently pointed out research showing that strains of the coronavirus entered
his state from Europe, not China. Cuomo said that the travel bans enacted by
the Trump administration were too late to halt its spread whilst an editorial
in the {Guardian} said Trump’s
approach “puts lives of Americans in danger”.
More than 80,000 Americans have now died from the
infection. The US government has disastrously failed to protect to its own
people due to the lack of integrity in their policy.
We have noticed that in the present objective
geopolitical situation of the world the right-wing American establishment considers
China their number one enemy. Gradually this policy is being reflected in their
every step, from trade war to the present pandemic.
The American political elite have taken the lead in
creating an anti-Chinese atmosphere in US society as part of their drive to
contain China. Now other politicians in the West and Asia are parroting Washington’s
tune to distract public attention from their own mishandling of the pandemic.
The US powerbrokers realise that China will be the
leader of the fourth industrial revolution, which is now in process. So, in the
normal way, China will become the world’s principal supplier of industrial
products and emerge as the number one economic giant, global leader and a powerful
civilised nation.
The US think-tanks understand the future scenario of
world politics. They realise that the emerging Chinese civilisation will be the
most threatening to the USA’s continued hegemony in the world. With this
perspective, the US administration tries to polarise and re-polarise the world
situation, especially in terms of the global economy. The Americans will try to
break the global supply chains so that their economy will be less globalised.
By this process they hope to divert others from turning to China for their
goods and services.
The US government desperately needs to stop China’s
rise to number one world power status. To do that it has to slow down the Chinese
economic growth, which has been double-digit for four decades. Now the
principal object of the USA and its allies is to smear China with this Coronavirus
and try to convince other countries to de-globalise the world economy.
The fabricated, false and baseless propaganda push
amongst the extreme anti-China crowd in the USA is to blame China. These lies
are being used as an excuse to destroy the Chinese economy and attempt to
de-globalise the world. With this aim, the Washington
Post and Fox News are playing the leading role in propagating fictitious
and ill-motivated news. The press media under the umbrella of the USA will play
the same tune to mislead and misguide public opinion.
The influential print and electronic media in India
play the same role and dance to Washington’s tune. Some TV stations are
dedicated to anti-Chinese propaganda. Anti-China songs are also recorded in
India and propagated through YouTube. The media of the USA and its allies are
biased, one-sided and too cowardly to broadcast the truth. For this reason,
they are blind to the extraordinary success of the Chinese government in
protecting the people from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chinese people and the Chinese government are
firmly resolved to sustain their development and economic growth. They will
take decisive steps to protect their national interest under the leadership of
Comrade Xi Jinping. By upholding globalisation and maintaining industrial
growth, China will become the leader of the fourth industrial revolution.
China strongly opposes the politicisation of public
health and the stigmatisation of other countries under the excuse of the coronavirus.
In this spirit, the Chinese Government sends help to the coronavirus-affected
countries throughout the world, including Bangladesh, such as masks, medical
kits and other necessary items. It is the greatest testimony to the
international solidarity of the Chinese people. Finally, we hope China will
contribute much for the peaceful and harmonious world in future.
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