President Xi Jinping (C) |
The editor-in-chief of Germany’s
largest paper Bild on Thursday launched a full frontal attack on China’s
communist President Xi Jinping for his regime’s failure to come clean about
the coronavirus outbreak
and the massive human rights violations carried out by the Communist Party.
Julian Reichelt, the prominent editor-in-chief of
the Bild, wrote to Jinping that “Your
embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in our
newspaper Bild whether China should pay for the massive
economic damage the coronavirus is inflicting worldwide.”
He wrote that, "You [Jinping], your government
and your scientists had to know long ago that coronavirus is highly infectious,
but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond
when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan. You were too
proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national
disgrace.”
Reichelt said that, “You rule by surveillance. You
wouldn't be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every
citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.
You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but
not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people,
you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.”
Julian Reichelt, the prominent editor-in-chief of the Bild |
He continued with his bill of particulars, noting
that “surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is
not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything. This
is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property
theft.
“China enriches itself with the inventions of
others, instead of inventing on its own,” Reichelt wrote. “The reason China
does not innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in your
country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have,
but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is coronavirus.”
The spokeswoman for China’s embassy, Tao Lil,
published an open letter to Bild in German on the embassy's
website on Wednesday, stating that, “I followed your reporting on the corona
pandemic in general and China's alleged guilt in particular today. Apart from
the fact that we consider it a pretty bad style to blame a country for a
pandemic that is affecting the whole world and then to present an explicit
account of alleged Chinese debts to Germany, the article ignores some essential
facts.”
She added that "We note that many countries
now struggling with COVID-19 have had time to prepare for the cross-border
spread of the pathogen after China reported its outbreak under IHR [World
Health Organization] guidelines."
The best-selling paper Bild calculated
prior to Reichelt's editorial that China owed Germany €149 billion for
coronavirus damages, triggering the angry response from the Chinese embassy in
Berlin.
Bild said the compensation amounts to €1,784
per person if Germany's GDP drops by 4.2 percent.
The Bild article was titled:
"What China owes us."
China's embassy spokeswoman said the article
"stirs up xenophobia and nationalism."
The Bild editor-in-chief cited a
Washington Post article reporting that, “your laboratories in Wuhan have been
researching coronaviruses in bats, but without maintaining the highest safety
standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for
political prisoners? Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows,
daughters, sons, husbands, parents of corona victims all over the world?”
He concluded that, “In your country, your people
are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an
inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a
surveillance state.
Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease. That is your political legacy.” – The Jerusalem Post
Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease. That is your political legacy.” – The Jerusalem Post
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