Chinese Propaganda Attempts to Blame the US for Coronavirus
As people in China and around the world are dealing with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, China’s Communist regime concentrates on shifting the blame to the West. The conspiracy theory that the United States started the virus on purpose is spreading through China’s internet and state-controlled media.
On February 3, 2020, Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said during a routine press conference that the US government has never provided any substantial help to China since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, it was the first to evacuate its diplomatic staff from China and ban Chinese citizens from entering the US. “It continues to create and spread terror, leading a bad example,” the spokesperson added.
On January 26, China’s military online portal Xilu.com published an article, which claims that the coronavirus is “a biochemical weapon produced...